Update

JANUARY AT PENN

Artifacts In Bloom Exhibition at UPM

Ancient and traditional artifacts from the Museum are once again the inspiration and the backdrop for floral art works by some of the Delaware Valley's outstanding flower arrangers. This exhibition, in its sixth year, features more than 35 arrangements. The exhibition is on display throughout the Museum Saturday and Sunday, January 24 and 25. Click here for more images.

 

CORRECTION

The time for the January 21 Penn Center for AIDS Research talk, Strategies of Evasion in AIDS, has changed to noon. It will take place in Austrian Auditorium, CRB.

FITNESS/LEARNING

20   Fitness at the Penn Alexander Community School; adult basketball free play, Tuesdays 6-8 p.m.; aerobics, Thursdays 6-7 p.m.; stretch n' relax, Thursdays 7-8 p.m.; 43rd & Locust Sts. (Penn Alexander School). Through February 12.

22  Penn American Red Cross Blood Drive; 1-6 p.m.; Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall; register: http://penn.givesblood.org.

ON STAGE

23   All's Hell that Ends Well; Mask and Wig Clubhouse 310 S. Quince St.; info.: (215) 923-4229 or housemgr@maskandwig.com; theatre shows 8 p.m., $25 : January 23, 24, 30, 31, February 6, 13, 20, 21, 27, March 19, 20, 25; dinner shows 6:30 p.m., $55: February 14, 28, March 26 (Mask and Wig Club).

SPECIAL EVENT

23  3rd Annual Chinese New Year Celebration; celebrate the Year of the Monkey with crafts, music, dance, food and film Happy Times; 6:30 p.m.; tickets: food and film $8, food $4, film $6/$5 students and seniors; info.: (215) 895-6552 (International House).

TALKS

20  Health Care Reform in Pennsylvania: A One Year Retrospective--Lessons Learned and a Focus Sharpened; Rosemarie Greco, Health Care Reform, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; noon; Auditorium, Nursing Education Bldg. (Nursing).

22  How Nursing Affects Surgery Mortality Rate; Linda Aiken, Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Policy Research; 7 a.m.; Flyers/76ers Surgery Theatre, HUP/White Bldg. (Nursing).

26  Title TBA; Jonathan Moreno, University of Virginia; noon; ste. 320, 3401 Market St. (Center for Bioethics).

28  Green States and Social Movements: Environmentalism in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Norway; Christian Hunold, Drexel University; noon; Carolyn Hoff Lynch Auditorium, Chemistry Bldg. (Institute of Environmental Studies).

Exon Identity and Human Disease; Adrian Krainer, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; 4 p.m.; Grossman Auditorium, Wistar Institute (Wistar).

Deadlines:  The deadline for the Update is Tuesday, for the following issue. The deadline for the March AT PENN calendar is Tuesday, February 10. For more information, see www.upenn.edu/almanac/calendar/caldead-real.html.

  Almanac, Vol. 50, No. 18, January 20, 2004

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