Penn Grad Talks - Natural Sciences Category
Grad Ben Talks
Penn Grad Talks - Natural Sciences Category
Penn Grad Talks (formerly known as Grad Ben Talks) features TED Talk-style presentations by Penn Arts & Sciences graduate students representing the Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Professional Master’s programs. Penn Grad Talks is going virtual this year!
Videos for this category will be released at 12 p.m. EST on Thursday, March 4. Voting will be open from 12 p.m. EST on Tuesday, March 4 until 12 p.m. EST on Wednesday, March 5.
Go to eventPenn Grad Talks Celebration
Grad Ben Talks
Please join us as we announce the 2021 Penn Grad Talks winners and celebrate all of our speakers.
You can watch the event live on the Penn Arts & Sciences' Facebook page.
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A New Methodological Framework for Studying Status Exchange in Marriage
The Colloquium of the Population Studies Center & Population Aging Research Center meets most Mondays from 12-1 PM during the academic year. Due to COVID-19 and restrictions on in-person meetings, the colloquium will be implemented as a webinar via Zoom until further notice.
Go to eventHigh School & Beyond: An Education Study Becomes an Aging Study
The Colloquium of the Population Studies Center & Population Aging Research Center meets most Mondays from 12-1 PM during the academic year. Due to COVID-19 and restrictions on in-person meetings, the colloquium will be implemented as a webinar via Zoom until further notice.
Go to eventWhat Kids Can't Do: Youth, Historical Agency, and Authority
This event is presented by the Wolf Humanities Center and co-sponsored by the Department of History.
Can children or adolescents make rational choices? To what extent do they have agency or the ability to shape their own circumstances or destinies?Go to event
Moving from College to Employment in the New Economy
The Colloquium of the Population Studies Center & Population Aging Research Center meets most Mondays from 12-1 PM during the academic year. Due to COVID-19 and restrictions on in-person meetings, the colloquium will be implemented as a webinar via Zoom until further notice.
Go to eventImprovisation
The Wolf Humanities Center presents a Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture Series in the Humanities event:
Celebrate choice with an improvisational jazz performance by percussionist Tyshawn Sorey and pianist Marilyn Crispell in this year's esteemed Dr. S.T. Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities!Go to event
Immigration and Job Postings: Evidence from the Mariel Boatlift
The Colloquium of the Population Studies Center & Population Aging Research Center meets most Mondays from 12-1 PM during the academic year. Due to COVID-19 and restrictions on in-person meetings, the colloquium will be implemented as a webinar via Zoom until further notice.
Go to eventDo Well By Doing Good: A conversation with Bill Novelli
This event is presented by Penn Nursing and the NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health.
Go to eventMultiple Choice
This event is presented by the Wolf Humanities Center.
In conversation with Ericka Beckman, Chilean novelist and poet Alejandro Zambra reads from Multiple Choice, his 2014 novel written in the form of a multiple choice aptitude test, and talks with Penn Hispanic and Portuguese Studies’ Ericka Beckman about his interest in the global format of the multiple choice exam, the experimental nature of his work, his local and global audience, and the question of languages, translation, and global literature in the Wolf Humanities CenterGo to event