02/18/10 6:30am
Dan Senor, former U.S. senior foreign policy advisor and current adjunct senior fellow for Middle East Studies on the Council on Foreign Relations, spoke Wednesday night at Hillel about his New York Times best-selling book Start-Up Nation: The Success Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle.
11/17/08 5:00am
Biochemistry and Economics majors don't usually have the opportunity to put their creativity to work. But on Saturday, the Penn Art Club provided these students and many more with all of the supplies needed to transform Harrison College House into an exhibit of Rembrandts and Renuars.
08/28/08 5:00am
Filming of the movie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen took place on campus June 10-15, drawing large crowds of passersby struck by the Hollywood scene and hoping to catch a glimpse of the film's director Michael Bay and star actor Shia LeBeouf.
The Transformers 2 production crew was "overwhelmed" by their reception at Penn, University spokeswoman Phyllis Holtzman said.
07/24/08 5:00am
A Twin Cities radio station has found its very own twin in the University of Pennsylvania's WXPN.
Minnesota Public Radio's The Current and Penn's WXPN have teamed up to share local music through The Music Exchange, a new program that will feature the music of up-and-coming bands in Philadelphia and the Twin Cities - Minneapolis and St.
07/17/08 5:00am
When University City District Executive Director Lewis Wendell exited the subway station at 40th and Market streets for the first time three years ago, he was greeted by an unwelcoming scene.
He contrasted the "uninviting" area with what is otherwise a "relatively vibrant city.
07/10/08 5:00am
For the 37 years that he has spent behind the wheel of a taxi, Ken Schwartz, supervisor for Quaker City Cab, Inc., has believed that "a rolling cab is always first out," he said.
Even today with gas prices at all-time highs, Schwartz keeps his wheels spinning and air conditioning blowing.
06/19/08 5:00am
Filming of the movie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen took place on campus last weekend, drawing large crowds of passersby struck by the Hollywood scene and hoping to catch a glimpse of the film's director Michael Bay and star actor Shia LeBeouf.
"This is the first big studio motion picture that's been filmed on campus proper," said University spokeswoman Phyllis Holtzman.
04/10/08 5:00am
Steven Pinker has a way with words.
Named one of Time's 100 most influential people in 2004, the best-selling Harvard psychology professor spoke in Irvine Auditorium yesterday on his new book, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature.
His presentation was part of the 2008 Levin Family Dean's Forum, an annual celebration of the arts and sciences featuring leading intellectual figures.
03/18/08 5:00am
East Asian and Middle Eastern history may be more similar than you think.
Yesterday afternoon at Logan Hall, Cemil Aydin, Princeton University post-doctoral fellow and assistant professor of History at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, gave a lecture entitled, "East Asia and the Middle East: What Can We Learn from Comparative Approaches to Global History?"
His talk was based on his most recent book, "The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia: Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought," in which he challenges prevalent notions of anti-Westernism as a reaction to Western values or response to Western imperialism.
02/01/08 5:00am
For Americans, there's July 4th, there's New Years Eve - and then there's the Super Bowl.
Between the game and the grub, this annual showdown between football's best has become what amounts to a national celebration for football fanatics and novices alike.
