December a T P E N N

December A T P E N N

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Rosenwald Gallery: free; 6th floor, ACADEMIC CALENDAR Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center; Mon.- 11 Fall Term Classes End. Fri., 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Sat., 10 a.m.-1:45 p.m. 12 Reading Days Begin. Through University Museum: $5, $2.50/seniors December 14. and students w/ID, free/members, with 15 Final Examinations Begin. PENNCard, children under 6; Tues.-Sat., Through December 22. 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Sunday (free), 1-5 p.m. 22 Fall Semester Ends. Upcoming 2 Lisa Yuskavage; Philadelphia CHILDREN’S ACTIVITIES artist’s unsettling and provocative paint- 5 Story Hour; 11 a.m. Info.: (215) ings; ICA. Through February 4. 898-5965. Also December 12, 19 & 26 Hella Jongerius and Jurgen Bey; (Penn Bookstore). Dutch designers’ Droog products made from recycled mass-produced objects; University Museum ICA. Through February 4. 3 5th Annual Peace Around the Mei Ling Hom: Silkworm Grind; The Italian Studies Center remembers Mary Costanza, the late artist, teacher & painter honored for her published works on World: Music Around theWorld; holiday installation focusing on Asian women’s Holocaust victims. Among her other paintings, Beginnings, pictured here, will be on display at the Burrison Gallery. See Exhibits. choral music for children and adults. See experiences; ICA. Through February 4. Special Events. 9 Mary Costanza—Remembered; Ongoing Penn Performing Arts dren can create percussion instruments paintings; opening reception: December Ancient Greek World; Canaan and Tickets/info.: (215) 898-2312 or with simple household objects; Families 9 Native Americans as the First dolphin.upenn.edu/~pac/. receive surprise discount gift card to be Ecologists; children 8-12 make decorated 8, 4:30-6:30 p.m.; Burrison Gallery. Ancient Israel; Living in Balance: Through December 22 (Center for Ital- Universe of the Hopi, Zuni, Navajo and 7 Secret Garden; Penn Singers; 8 p.m.; applied toward the Pyramid Shop; 1:30- bowls and ladles; 10 a.m.-noon; $5 4:30 p.m. University Museum. Info.: materials fee. Pre-registration: (215) ian Studies). Apache; Ancient Mesopotamia: Royal Iron Gate Theatre. Through December 9. Tombs of Ur; The Egyptian Mummy: www.upenn.edu/museum, or (215) 898-4015. 8 Full Measure; 8 p.m.; Rainey Audito- 898-4890 (Museum). Now Secrets and Science; Raven’s Journey: rium, University Museum. Also December 9. 23 A Christmas Carol; performed by 6 Wednesdays with Morrie; free van American Theater Arts for Youth, Inc.; Master of Fine Arts 2nd Year Exhi- World of Alaska’s Native People; bition; Meyerson Gallery; Info.: www. Buddhism: History and Diversity of a ON STAGE ride to the Philadelphia Museum of Art 1 & 3:30 p.m.; Harrison Auditorium; $10; for Wednesday night events. PENNCard $8/members. Tickets: (215) 563-3501. gsfa.upenn.edu. Through December 7. Great Tradition; University Museum. Master of Fine Arts Drawing Exhi- Healing Plants: Medicine Across 7 Strictly Funk; 8 p.m.; Harold Prince required. See www.upenn.edu/resliv/ bition; Dean's Alley, Meyerson Hall; Time and Cultures; Morris Arboretum. Theatre, Annenberg Center. Tickets/Info.: chas/programs/van.html for route; 5-9 CONFERENCE (215) 898-2312 or dolphin.upenn.edu/ Info.: www.gsfa.upenn.edu. Through University Museum Tours p.m.; info: (215) 898-5551. Wednesdays 8 Norms and Corporate Law; sym- December 7. ~pac/. Through December 9 (Performing through December 20. Meet at the main entrance; 1:30 p.m. Arts Council). posium; 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Levy Conference Small Print Exhibition; works of Free with Museum admission donation. Tree Lighting and Holiday Dinner Center, Law School. Advance registra- faculty, staff, students; Fox Gallery, Info.: www.upenn.edu/museum/. Penn Presents 2000/2001 Season Buffet; 5-8 p.m.; Faculty Club; $18.95/ Logan Hall. Through December 15. person; reservations: (215) 898-4618 tion required; $100. Info.: (215) 898- 2 Mesoamerica Info.: (215) 898-3900 or 7719 or [email protected]. Through 44 Celebrity Eyes in a Museum Store- www.PennPresents.org. (Faculty Club). room; artifacts chosen by celebrities. Univer- 3 Canaan and Ancient Israel Philadelphia Cuisine; Join food December 9 (Institute for Law & 1 The King Stag; Asian fairy tale Economics; Law Review). sity Museum. Through December 30. 9 Africa historian Elizabeth Rozin and Frog/ that draws from Japanese bunkaru to Commissary Catering owner Steve “King Midas” Display; remains of 10 Ancient Egypt Indonesian shadow puppetry; 8 p.m.; EXHIBITS the funerary feast of the Phrygian “King Poses for a show-and-tell presentation; 16 Archaeology Zellerbach Theatre, Annenberg Center; 5-8 p.m.; 3619 Locust Walk; registration Midas”; Main Entrance, University Mu- evening tickets: $35, $30, $25; matinee Admission donations and hours seum. Through December 30. 17 The Classical World deadline: November 30; for lecture and Arthur Ross Gallery, Fisher Fine Arts “Innur”: Constructions & Mixed tickets: $30, $25, $20. Also December 2, dinner: $35; $27.50/Penn students. Pre- Library: free, Tues.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Media; Gwen Fryer, artist; Esther M. FILMS 2 & 8 p.m. payment required. Seating limited. No Sat. & Sun., noon-5 p.m. Klein Art Gallery. Through January 6. 7 Philadanco: ’Twas the Night Before refunds after November 30. Info.: (215) Burrison Gallery, Faculty Club, Inn at New Media/New Faces/New Direc- SPEC Film Society Christmas; original choreography by 898-8220 (Penn Humanities Forum). Penn: free, Mon.-Fri, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. tions; work by recent and established Free passes can be picked-up in rm. 200, Daniel Ezralow; 11 a.m. & 7:30 p.m.; 7 Winterfest at Sansom Common; Esther Klein Gallery, 3600 Market: GSFA faculty members; Arthur Ross Houston Hall. Info.: specevents.net/film/. Zellerbach Theatre, Annenberg Center; live street performances at Sansom free, Mon.-Sat., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Gallery. Through January 12. 5 Thirteen Days; starring Kevin Costner, evening tickets: $33, $31, $29; matinee Common, events at Class of ’23 Ice Fox Gallery, Logan Hall: Mon.- Fri., Greetings from Afar: Gifts to the Bruce Greenwood, Steven Culp, Bill tickets: $30, $28, $26. Also December 8, 11 Rink, ice carving, wall-climbing and 9-5 p.m.; free. Library from Around the World on the Smitrovich, Frank Wood; live interactive a.m. & 8 p.m. and December 9, 2 & 8 p.m. more; 5-8 p.m.; Sansom Common, 34th Institute of Contemporary Art: $3, $2/ Occasion of Its 250th Anniversary; with the cast to follow; 9 p.m.; Hall of Flags. to 38th Sts., between Walnut & Chestnut students, artists, seniors, free/members, Kamin Gallery, 1st fl., Van Pelt-Dietrich 13 Scary Movie; 8 p.m.;Hall of Flags READINGS/SIGNINGS Sts. Also December 14, 21 & 28 (Busi- children under 12, with PENNCard, and Library Center. Through January 12. Kelly Writers House ness Services). See “Winterfest”, reverse. on Sundays 11 a.m.-1 p.m.; open: Wed.- Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie; Modern Language Program Dinner Conversation at the Club; Fri., noon-8 p.m.; Sat. & Sun., 11 a.m.-5 6th fl., Rosenwald Gallery, Van Pelt- Gregory College House, TV Lounge, 3805 Locust Walk. Info./RSVP: (215) Witold Rybczynski will read from his p.m.; tours available by appointment. Dietrich Library Center. Through 1925 Manor, 3941 Irving St. 573-WRIT, www.english.upenn.edu/ ~wh/ or [email protected]. new book; dinner buffet 6 p.m.; speaker Meyerson Gallery: Mon.-Fri., 9-5 p.m.; February 5. 6 La Vita E’bella; Italian w/ English 7:15 p.m.; Faculty Club, Inn at Penn; free. Pomo Indian Basket Weavers: subtitles; 8 p.m. 1 Visiting Writer Mark Doty; a reservations: (215) 898-4618 (Faculty Morris Arboretum: $6, $5/seniors, $4/ Their Baskets and the Art Market; text, 7 Azucar Amarga (Bitter Sugar); roundtable lunchtime conversation; Club). See Readings/Signings. students, free with PENNCard, children video and photos of 120 turn-of-the- Spanish w/ English subtitles; 7:30 p.m. noon-2 p.m.; Arts Café; RSVP required Kwanzaa Dinner & Celebration; 7 under 6; Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sat. & century Native American baskets; 2nd (Penn Center for AIDS Research; p.m.; Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall (OSL). Sun., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. fl., Dietrich Gallery, University 11 Farinelli: Il Castrato; French w/ Connaissance; FLASH; Health Educa- English subtitles; 7:30 p.m. 15 A-3 Assembly Holiday Bazaar; Museum. Through February 25. tion Office; Lesbian Gay Bisexual flast-minute holiday shopping opportunity; 12 The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrom- Transgender Center; Kelly Writers mel); German w/ English subtitles; 9 p.m. House; English Department; GAPSA). 11 a.m.-2 p.m.; Hall of Flags, Houston See Talks, reverse. Hall (A-3 General Assembly). MEETINGS Student Presentations: Writing 21 Go West, 3rd Thursdays: 5 Winterfest; free skating and refreshments; 4 PPSA; noon-1:30 p.m.; Office of in the Documentary Tradition; students 5:30-9 p.m.; Class of 1923 Ice Rink. Info.: Student Conduct, 3700 Spruce St. of Paul Hendrickson’s English 155 class read from their semester-long see www.universitycitydistrict.org or call 6 University Council; 4-6 p.m.; work; 7 p.m. 1-888-GOWEST-7 (Ice Rink; UCD). Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall. Call See “Winterfest”, reverse. (215) 898-7005. 6 Poet Ron Silliman; visits Al Filreis’ Graduate Seminar on American SPORTS Poetry; noon-3 p.m.; rm. 202; others MUSIC welcome, contact: Al Filreis, Tickets for basketball games: $18/side 9 Pinchas Zukerman; classical vio- [email protected]. court & lower end court; $12/upper end linist, violist and conductor; 8 p.m.; 9 Write-On end-of-semester Reading court; $6/seniors & children; $6 w/ Irvine Auditorium; $45, $35, $20. Info.: & Celebration; noon-2 p.m. PENNCard. Info/tickets: (215) 898-6151 (215) 898-3900 or www.PennPresents. The Laughing Hermit Reading Se- or www.pennathletics.com. org (Penn Presents 2000/2001 Season). ries; readings by the Alumni of the 7 (W) Squash vs. U. of Capetown 11 Victor Wooten; 10:30 p.m.; Pennsylvania Governor’s School; 4 p.m. (South Africa); 4 p.m. Zellerbach Theatre, Annenberg Center; 11 Live at the Writers House; a one- (W) Basketball vs. La Salle; 6 p.m. Info.: (215) 898-4444 (SPEC Jazz). hour word and music radio show; 8-10 (M) Baskteball vs. La Salle; 8 p.m. Department of Music p.m.; on 88.5 FM WXPN. 9 (M) Basketball vs. Maryland; 7:30 p.m. Free/with PENNCard. Penn Bookstore 10 (W) Swimming vs. Harvard; 1 p.m. 2 University of Pennsylvania Choir; All events are free and open to the pub- performing Handel’s Messiah; 8 p.m.; lic. Info.: contact Kimberley Berry, at 12 (W) Basketball vs. Villanova; 7 p.m. Irvine Auditorium; $5. (215) 898-5965. 28 (W) Basketball vs. Stonybrook; 3 Ancient Voices; medieval and Renais- 4 Stricktly Speaking Toastmaster’s 7 p.m. sance Christmas music; 3 p.m.; Amado Re- Meeting; 6 p.m. Also December 18. 29 (M) Basketball vs. Temple; 8 p.m. cital Hall, Irvine Auditorium; $10. 5 One Good Turn: A Natural History 30 (W) Basketball vs. Air Force; 1 p.m. University of Pennsylvania Wind of the Screwdriver and the Screw; Ensemble; 5 p.m.; Irvine Auditorium; $5. Intramural and Club Sports Witold Rybczynski, urbanism, signing For information visit www.upenn.edu/ 5 Student Recital; performances by & discussion; 2 p.m. recreation or call (215) 898-6100. Applied Music/Music 10 program; 8 6 The Entreprenuerial Mindset; Ian p.m.; Amado Recital Hall, Irvine Audi- McMillan, Wharton; and Rita Gunther torium; free. McGrath, Columbia University Graduate 8 University of Pennsylvania Sym- School of Business; signing & discus- phony Orchestra and Choral Society; 8 sion; 3 p.m. p.m.; Irvine Auditorium; $5. Suite 211 Nichols House, 3600 Chestnut St. 14 A Passion for Truth; Sen. Arlen Philadelphia, PA 19104-6106 11 Penn Baroque & Recorder En- Specter; signing & discussion; noon. (215) 898-5274 or 5275 FAX (215) 898-9137 sembles and Penn Madrigal Singers; 8 Animal Patents: 50 Years in the E-Mail [email protected] p.m.; Amado Recital Hall, Irvine Audi- Life of an Animal Doctor; Edward URL: www.upenn.edu/almanac torium; free. Scanlon, veterinarian; signing & discussion; 4 p.m. Foundation Unless otherwise noted all events are open 15 Early To Rise: A Young Person’s to the general public as well as to members of 8 p.m., Rotunda, unless otherwise noted. the University. For building locations, call All events are free. Guide to Investing and Financial Deci- Music Around the World at the University Museum (See Special Events) sions That Can Shape A Life; Michael (215) 898-5000 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. 1 Community Gospel Showcase; Stahl, Wharton ’04; 2 p.m. Listing of a phone number normally means 1:30 p.m.—Haverford School Notables; Turkish Choir (from Perelman School); New Spirit of Penn performs. tickets, reservations or registration required. music from the French International School of Philadelphia; the Episcopal Middle This December calendar is a pull-out for School Choir. 2 Hindustani Classical Music; K. SPECIAL EVENTS Prashant performs. posting. Almanac carries an Update with 1:30-3:30 p.m.—bagpipe music; African drum performance workshop. 1 World AIDS Day; 7th annual additions, changes and cancellations if re- 2:30 & 3:30 p.m.—Museum docent Mawusi Renée Simmons (pictured above 8 Philly Avant-Garde Super Show! convocation; 5:30 p.m.; 4th fl., Ivy ceived by Monday noon prior to the week of holding a kora, a West African stringed instrument) shows/plays her own collection 9 Stef Renee Presents Linguistics Room, Penn Tower Bldg. (Immunodefi- publication. Members of the University may of African instruments. 12 Counterinduction New Music Con- ciency Program; SPEC; Connaissance). send notices for the Update or January AT 2 & 3 p.m.—Sandy Taylor, of Rainbow Child International, shares music and cert II; 7 p.m.; Terrace rm., Logan Hall. PENN calendar. Deadlines can be found on- storytelling while dressed as the Swedish Santa Lucia. 3 5th Annual Peace Around the line at www.upenn.edu/almanac/calendar/ 1:30-4 p.m.—artists from the Peanut Butter Troupe do face decorating; sketch 15 Gate to Moon Base Alpha World: Music Around the World; Chil- caldead.html. artist does caricatures; magician John Moran performs.

11/21/00 TALKS TALKS TALKS Winterfest at Sansom Common 1 A Workshop on Research Gross, Communication; 4-5:15 p.m.; Washington; 4:30 p.m.; rm. 337, Towne Celebrate Every Thursday Night through December 28 Informatics; John Holmes, CCEB; 8:30 Benjamin Franklin rm., Houston Hall Bldg.(IME; Bioengineering). a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Colonial Penn Center (Provost’s Lecture Series). 8 Mice: Bacterial, Mycotic, Parasitic, The holidays are here and Sansom Common, one of Philadelphia’s Auditorium; RSVP to Jennifer 6 Biologically Inspired Computation Neoplastic and Metabolic Diseases; Rich- premier shopping and dining districts located in the heart of the University, O’Donohue (215) 898-5611 or is prepared to celebrate with WinterFest, which includes five weeks worth of and Learning in Networked Devices; ard B. Huneke, DuPont Pharmaceuticals entertainment, shopping, and dining. [email protected] Daniel Lee, Bell Laboratories; 10:45 a.m.- Co.; 10 a.m.-noon; Medical Alumni Hall, (Provost’s Interdisciplinary Seminar on Sansom Common, located from 34th to 38th and between Walnut and noon; rm. 203 Moore (SEAS). HUP (University Veterinarian). Chestnut Streets, is filled with an abundance of retail shops and restaurant Health Informatics; LDI & CCEB). The Role of Progranulin/ Structure from Motion without Mice: Breeding Systems, Genetics, acrogranin Gene Products in the Regu- Correspondence; Frank Dellaert, offerings. On Thursday evenings between November 30 (see page 7 in the Reproductive Physiology and November 21 issue) and December 28, the streets will come alive between lation of Normal and Neoplastic Tissue Carnegie Mellon University; 11 a.m.; 5 and 8 p.m. with live musicians and street carolers filling the night air with Transgenic Technology; Timothy Poole, Dynamics; Andrew Bateman, McGill rm. 318C, GRASP Laboratory (SEAS). Fox Chase Cancer Center; 10 a.m.-noon; University; noon; rm. 253, BRB II/III Title TBA; David W. Beier, Chief festive music, and retail shops showing-off ornately decorated window Medical Alumni Hall, HUP (University displays. Other highlights include rock-climbing demonstrations at Eastern (Center for Research on Reproduction & Domestic Policy Advisor at The White Mountain Sports, free holiday gift-wrapping on any purchase from any Veterinarian). Women’s Health). House; noon-1:30 p.m.; 1st fl. auditorium, Scheduling for Networked Control Molecular Biology of HIV: How it Colonial Penn Center; RSVP: Agneishka merchant at the Penn Bookstore, and free admission to the Institute of Systems; Gregory Walsh, University of Contemporary Art. Helps Us to Understand Pathogenesis Baumritter, (215) 898-3428 (LDI). And what would the holidays be without food? Some of the city’s best Maryland; 11 a.m.; Rm. 318C, GRASP and to Design New Interventions 11 Direct Simulation of Particulate Laboratory (SEAS). Against AIDS; George N. Pavlakis, Na- culinary artists will show off their skills through ice carving demonstrations, Flows; Howard H. Hu, Engineering and and a collection of specialty gingerbread houses, along with cooking Hopelessness and Hope: One tional Cancer Institute; 4 p.m.; Applied Mechanics; 3:30 p.m.; rm. 337, Writer’s Narrative of the AIDS Epidemic; demonstrations. In addition, the various retailers will distribute free seasonal Grossman Auditorium, Wistar (Wistar). Towne Bldg.(Chemical Engineering). snacks, such as cookies and hot cider to those shopping and strolling during Mark Doty, author; commemorating Edward B. Shils Lecture on Alter- The Role of Cytokines in Cancer World AIDS Day; 3:30 p.m.; ARCH, 36th the event. On each of the evenings, the Sheraton Hotel will offer free coffee native Dispute Resolution During Times Immunotherapy; Yvonne Paterson, Mi- at 36th and Chestnut Streets. and Locust Street. Info.: Monique of Intense Litigation: The Growing Im- crobiology; 4-5 p.m.; Austrian Audito- Howard, (215) 573-9286 (Penn Center for portance of Alternative Dispute Resolu- As an added bonus, free-metered parking is available between 34th & rium, CRB (Institute of Human Gene 38th, Walnut to Chestnut Streets. AIDS Research; Connaissance; FLASH; tion; Arlin B. Adams, former judge of Therapy). Health Education Office; Lesbian Gay Bi- US Court of Appeals; 4 p.m.; rm. 100, sexual Transgender Center; Kelly Writers Law School (Penn Law Sesquicentennial). 13 Steroidogenic Acute Regulatory Pro- Highlights by Week: tein: Transcriptional Regulation of the House; English Department; GAPSA). Philadelphia Cuisine; Elizabeth Thursday December 7 Presentation of Original Music; Gene and Mechanism of Protein Action; Rozin, Steve Poses; 5-8 p.m.; 1st fl. Lane Christenson, CRRWH; noon; Audi- ¥ PhilaDanco dancers meet & greet visitors at the Penn Bookstore (6 p.m.) Jonathan Harvey, Sussex University; 5 3619 Locust Walk; $35/person for lec- ¥ Live jazz performance by Minutemen Quartet at the Franklin Building p.m.; rm. 208, Music Bldg. (Music). torium, BRB II/III (Center for Research on ture and dinner, $27.50 for students; Reproduction & Women’s Health). Annex on 36th Street 4 Control of Nonlinear Differential prepayment & registration required by November 20. To register: Community Organizing and Com- Thursday December 14 Algebraic Systems: Theory and Applica- munity Development Corporations in New tions to Process and Plant-wide Con- [email protected] or (215) ¥ Ice Carving demonstration at Urban Outfitters Jersey: An Interim Report; Dennis Brunn, ¥ Minutemen Quartet perform (see above) trol; Prodromos Daoutidis, University of 898-8220. (Penn Humanities Forum). Social Work; 6-8 p.m.; rm. D-26, School Minnesota; 3:30 p.m.; rm. 337, Towne 7 Monte Carlo Bayesian Signal Pro- of Social Work (School of Social Work; Thursday December 21 Bldg.(Chemical Engineering). cessing For Wireless Communications; Center for Community Partnerships). ¥ Holiday cooking demonstration at the Ivy Grille (5-6 p.m.) Diarrhea, Donkeys and Xiaodong Wang, Texas A&M Univer- ¥ Live Renaissance a cappella choir performance by Delmonicos: The Infant Mortality Syn- 14 Improving the Accuracy of Bird sity; 11 a.m.-noon; rm. 337 Towne Censuses; W. John Smith, Biology and Bloom Consort at the Franklin Building drome in Uruguay, 1895-1943; Anne- Bldg. (SEAS). Annex on 36th Street Emanuelle Birn, The New School; 4 La vie scientifique en France; Earth & Environmental Science; 12:15- ¥ Ice Skating party at Class of ‘23 p.m.; Logan 337(History and Sociology 1:45 p.m.; Auditorium, Wistar Institute Tom Lubensky, physics; noon-1:30 (Institute of Environmental Studies). Ice Rink sponsored by UCD of Science). p.m.; Terrace Room, Logan (The French (5 p.m.) See Special Events. Force is Critical Signal for Cell Institute for Culture and Technology). Novel Regulation of Post-transla- Function; Michael P. Sheetz, Columbia tional Modifications by Substrate Trans- Thursday December 28 Plant Vacuoles as Intracellular porters: From Basic Science to Disease; ¥ Steel Kings steel drum band University; 4 p.m.; rm. 253, BRBII/III Landfills: Detoxification by Sequestra- (Pennsylvania Muscle Institute). tion; Philip Rea, Biology; 12:15 -1:45 Carlos B. Hirschberg, Boston University performance at Institute of Gene Therapy for Cardiovascular Medical Center; 4 p.m.; Reunion Lec- Contemporary Art (6 p.m.) p.m.; Auditorium, Wistar Institute (In- ture Hall, John Morgan Bldg. (Biochem- ¥ Ice Skating Party at Penn Ice Rink Diseases; Jeff Isner, Tufts School of stitute for Environmental Studies). Medicine; 4-5 p.m.; Austrian Audito- Ironies Out of Provincetown and istry & Biophysics). ($1 for skating and $1 skate rental, rium, CRB (Institute for Human Gene 15 Mice: Viral Diseases; C. Terrance free hot cocoa, and Skating lessons. Bermuda: Marsden Hartley’s ‘Move- (5 p.m.) Therapy). ment’ Series, 1916-17, and the Notion of Hawk, SmithKline Beecham Pharma- Women, Youths, and Men: Male- the Purely Pictural; Michael Taylor, ceuticals; 10 a.m.-noon; Medical Male Eroticism and the Age/Gender Sys- Alumni Hall, HUP (University Veteri- All events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. Philadelphia Museum of Art; 3 p.m.; For more information, call Business Services at (215) 898-6690. tem of Tokugawa Japan; Gregory rm. 201, Jaffe Bldg.(History of Art). narian). Pflugfelder, Columbia University; 4:30 Structural Studies of the Molecular Segmentation and Representation p.m.; rm. 402, Logan Hall (Center for Machinery for Neuronal Exocytosis; of the Cortical Surface of the Brain from East Asian Studies). Axel T. Brunger, Yale University; 4 MR Images; Jerry Prince, Johns Hopkins FITNESS/LEARNING Slide Lecture; Italo Scanga, sculp- p.m.; Reunion Lecture Hall, John Mor- University; 11 a.m.; rm. 318C, GRASP tor; 5 p.m.; White Room, Morgan Bldg. gan Bldg.(Biochemistry & Biophysics). Laboratory (SEAS). (GSFA). Inequality in Quality: Strategies Jazzercise; 5:30-6:30 p.m.; Tues- 7 Penn Philosophy Circle; 8-10 Backbone, Multifractality and Fi- day and Thursday; Newman Center; first p.m.; rm. 202. Also December 14. 5 Assembly and Structure of nite-Size Effects; Marc Barthélémy, for Reducing Socioeconomic, Racial & Ethnic Disparities in Health Care; class free; $4.50/class, $3.50/students; 9 Dickinson Writing Group; noon Alzheimer Amyloid Plaques; Paul E. CEA Paris; 4 p.m.; LRSM Auditorium, Carolyn Hamilton, (215) 662-3293 Fraser, University of Tronto; noon; Aus- 3231 Walnut St. (The French Institute Carolyn Clancy, Agency for Health Care p.m.; rm. 209. Research and Quality; noon-1:30 p.m.; (days) or (610) 446-1983 (evenings). trian Auditorium, 1st fl. for Culture and Technology). See Holiday Hours, at left. 11 The Fish Writing Group; 7:30-10 CRB(Biochemistry & Biophysics). Tools for Large-Scale Systems 1st fl. Auditorium, Colonial Penn p.m.; rm. 209. Visibility and Its Discontents: The Modeling in the Physoime Project; Center(LDI). Class of 1923 Ice Rink Public Skating 12 24 Hour Writing Advising; noon; Politics of Media Representations; Larry James Bassingthwaighte, University of Sessions; Mon. & Wed., 1:30-3 p.m.*; Tues., noon-1:30 p.m.*; Thurs., noon-1:30 p.m.* & 2nd floor. Through December 13, noon. 7-9 p.m.; Fri., 8-10 p.m. & midnight-2 a.m.; 15 Suppose An Eyes: A Poetry Work- Sat., 12:30-2:30 p.m., 8-10 p.m. & midnight- ing Group; 4 p.m. 2 a.m.; and Sun., 12:30-2:30 p.m. Class of Morris Arboretum ’23 Ice Rink, 3130 Walnut St. Admission: Info./registration: (215) 247-5777, ext. 125. $5.50; $4.50/PENNCard; (*= $1-off admission); skate rental: $1.50/per session (Class of 2 Plants for the Winter Garden; 1-3 ’23 Ice Rink). See Holiday Hours, at left. p.m; $20, $18/members. 2000 Holiday Hours for University Services and Facilities 11 Stress Relief Week; group exercise, 6 Create Beautiful, Handmade Spinning, and Yoga; free w/PennCard; Decorations; Chick Culp, horticulturist; Academic Records Closes De- Information Systems & Computing Residence Halls: Sansom Place register: (215) 898-6100 or 1-3:30 p.m. or 7-9:30 p.m.; $32.50, $30/ cember 22 at noon. Reopens January University operators will be answering East, Sansom Place West, Harrison www.upenn.edu/recreation (Recreation). members; bring your own clippers. 2 at 9 a.m. main (215) 898-5000 calls December College House, Harnwell College Wreath-making Class; 1-3:30 p.m. 12 Hansel’s House: Learn to Make a or 7-9:30 p.m.; $32.50, $30/members; Accounts Payable 26-29. No operator services December House, Hamilton College House and Closes De- 25 and January 1. Networking staff will Mayer Hall remain open. All other Gingerbread House; 6-8 p.m.; The Res- bring your own clippers. cember 22 at noon. Closed Decem- taurant School, 4207 Walnut St. Registra- ber 23-25, 30-31, & January 1. Open be operating on-call and responding to dormitories close at December 23, tion: (215) 222-4200 (Restaurant School). Office of Community Housing critical network emergencies via the noon and reopen January 11, 9 a.m. 4046 Walnut St.; noon-1 p.m. & 1-2 December 26-29, 9 a.m.-noon. First Call automated hotline (215-573- Housing Services Office closes De- ISC Technology Training Group Regular hours resume January 2. p.m. Info./RSVP: (215) 898-7422 or 4778) during University Holiday Hours. cember 22, 3 p.m. and reopens Janu- 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; RM. 217-A, [email protected]. Annenberg Center Box Office Jazzercise ary 2, 9 a.m. Sansom Place West; $150/person/class; Call (215) 898-3900 for info. Open December 5-21, register: (215) 573-3012. 6 Community Housing 101 5:30- 6:30 p.m. No class December 26 Student Financial Services Start Smart-First Time Buyers Arthur Ross Gallery Closed De- & 28. Classes resume January 2. See Fit- Closed on Friday, December 22 at 2 Hands-on Courses for Macintosh Users 14 cember 20. Reopens January 2. ness/ Learning for December schedule. p.m. Reopens Tuesday January 2 at 9 4 Advanced Excel 98 Quality of Worklife Seminars Cashier’s Office Closed Decem- Kelly Writer’s House Closes Decem- a.m. See www.upenn.edu/sfs. 11 Creating a Web Page (Intro.). 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Presented by ber 25, 30-31 & January 1. Open ber 22, 5 p.m. Closed December 23-31 Student Health Closes December Hands-on Courses for Windows Users Ceridian Performance Partners; Penn- December 26-29, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. & January 1, 2, & 13-15. Open January 22, 4:30 p.m. Closed December 24-25, Friends. Registration: contact Orna Regular hours resume (10 a.m.) 3-12, 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. Regular hours re- 31, & January 1, 7, 13. Open December 6 Intermediate Excel 2000 Rosenthal at (215) 898-5116 or rosenthal January 2. sume January 16, 9 a.m. 26-30, 9-11:30 a.m. & January 15, noon- 8 Advanced PowerPoint 2000 @hr.upenn.edu. Bring a brown bag lunch. 7:30 p.m. Regular hours resume Intermediate Access 2000 6 The Refilled Nest: When Adult Christian Association Closed to Levy Tennis Pavilion Holiday hours 13 January 16, 8 a.m.-7:30 p.m. 14 Intermediate Filemaker Pro 4.0 Children Return Home to Live; Golkin the public December 18 through unavailable at this time. Please call Room (rm. 223), Houston Hall. January 1 for move to new location. (215) 898-4741 for tennis court hours. University Museum Galleries: Kelly Writers House 20 Maximizing the Holidays in the Mil- Regular hours resume January 2. Morris Arboretum Closed December 24-25, 31 & Janu- 3805 Locust Walk. Info./RSVP: (215) Open daily, 10 ary 1. Open December 26-30, Tues.- lennium; rm. 303, Lauder-Fischer Hall. Computer Connection Open De- a.m.-4 p.m. Closed December 24 573-WRIT, www.english.upenn.edu/ cember 26-29, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; January through January 1. Regular hours re- Sat. 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Closed Sun- ~wh/ or [email protected]. Retirement Education Seminars days & Mondays during holidays. 2-5, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Closed De- sume January 2. 1 First Write-On Session; 2:30-5:30 Bodek Lounge, 1st fl. Houston Hall Regular hours resume January 2. (Division of Human Resources). cember 25 & December 30 through Newman Center p.m.; beginning in the Arts Cafe and spread- January 1. Regular hours resume Janu- Closes December 22, Pyramid Shop: Located at the Kress 1 p.m. Reopens January 16, 9 a.m. entrance of the Museum. Same hours ing out throughout the House. Also Decem- TIAA-CREF ary 6. See www.upenn.edu/ccx/. as Galleries, above. ber 8 (Gear Up / Writers House program). 4 New Faculty & Staff; overview of College Houses and Academic Penn Bookstore Open December 24, 3 Undergraduate Writing Advising; 7- new TDR plan; 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. & December 26-29, 8:30- Van Pelt/Lippincott Libraries 10 p.m.; 2nd fl. library. Also December 4. Reaching Your Financial Goals; Services Open December 22, 9 and Rosengarten Reserve a.m.-5 p.m. Closed December 23 10 p.m. Closed December 25. Call Kim De- learn of savings opportunities; 1-2 p.m. Berry at (215) 898-5965 for further in- cember 8-21 Extended hours—Van 4 Penn & Pencil Club; creative writing through January 1. Regular hours re- formation. Pelt/Lippincott: Open Monday workshop for staff; 5:15-7 p.m.; rm. 202. 8 Developing an Investment sume January 2, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. through Friday, 8:30 a.m.-midnight; Hebrew Literacy Crash Course; Strategy; 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Recreation Department: Gimbel 6:30-7:30 p.m.; rm. 209 and in the Pub Retirement Distribution Escort Service, PennBus, and Hutchinson Gymnasia Saturdays & Sundays, 10 a.m.-mid- Handivan Closed December 23 Gimbel night. Rosengarten/USC: Open (10 Room (rm. 203): Flexibilities; 1-2 p.m. Gymnasium Open December 11-22, 6:30 through January 1. Reopens January a.m.) Sunday through Friday, 24 6 Hollywood Club meeting; 7:30- The Vanguard Group a.m.-10 p.m.; December 27-29 and Janu- 9:30 p.m.; Arts Café. 2. During the winter break, limited ary 3-5, & 8-12, 6:30 a.m.-9 p.m.; Janu- hours; Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 a.m.; De- 5 New Faculty & Staff; 11:30 a.m.- transportation will be provided in cember 22 & 26-29 and January 2-5, Lacanian Reading and Writing 12:30 p.m. & 1-2 p.m. ary 6-7 & 13-14, noon-6 p.m.; Saturdays Group; 7-8:30 p.m.; rm. 209. Also cooperation with Public Safety by & Sundays, noon-6 p.m. Closed Decem- 12 & 15, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.; January 7 Take Charge of Your Savings; calling (215) 898-7297. 8-11, 8:30 a.m.-7 p.m.; January 13- December 20. 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. ber 23-26 & December 30 through Janu- 14, noon-5 p.m. Closed December Spanish Writing Advising; 8:30-10 Faculty Club Closed December 25 ary 2. Hutchinson Gymnasium Open De- p.m.; rm. 209. Also December 13. Retirement Distribution Options; 23-25; December 30 through January 1-2 p.m. through January 1. Reopens January cember 11-22, 7 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturdays 1; and January 6-7. Regular hours 2, 8 a.m. & Sundays, noon-6 p.m. Closed Decem- ber 23 through January 14. Spring hours resume January 16. See www.library. ICA Open December 23 & 30, 11 upenn.edu/services/hours/hours.html. a.m.-5 p.m., and December 27-29, begin January 15. Ringe Squash Courts Closed December 23-26 & December 30 noon-8 p.m. Closed December 24- through January 2. Open December 27- 26, 31 & January 1-2. Regular hours resume January 3. 29 and January 3-5 & 8-12, 7-9 a.m., 11 a.m.-1 p.m. & 4-7 p.m.; January 6-7 & Ice Rink, Class of 1923 Closes 13-14, noon-4 p.m. December 24 & 31, 2:30 p.m. December Registrar’s Office Closes December 22 at Closed December 25 & January 1. Regular hours resume January 2. See noon. Reopens January 2 at 9 a.m. Fitness/Learning. A T P E N N

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