Update
APRIL AT PENN
CORRECTION
The Annual
Penn Undergraduate Ceramics & Photography Exhibition is
at the Kelly Writers House; reception April 21,
5:30 p.m. Through April 30.
CONFERENCE
24 International Workshop
in the Salt Range Culture Zone, Pakistan; 10 a.m.-5
p.m.; 1st floor, 3619 Locust Walk; info.: www.southasia.upenn.edu (South
Asia Studies; South Asia Center; American Institute of
Pakistan Studies).
EXHIBITS
Now
Show
Support: A Benefit Exhibition to Support Slought Foundation. Through
June 12.
22 Nature Observed:
A History of Botanical Engraving; pieces will be
available for sale; Morris Arboretum. Through May
9.
READING/SIGNING
24 Voices of Spoken
Word; poetic expressions by poets from the surrounding
area; 3 p.m.; Du Bois College House (AARC; Arts and Spirituality
Center; PWC; Du Bois House; The Excelano Project; KWH).
SPECIAL EVENT
5/7 Traditional
Procession to the Woodlands Cemetery; procession
to the graves of Alice Fisher, founder of the Philadelphia
General Hospital (PGH) School of Nursing and Lillian
Clayton, chief nurse at PGH 1915-1930; followed by reception
and talk; noon-2 p.m.; meet at 40th and Woodland Ave.;
rsvp by April 26 to (215) 898-4502 (Center for
the Study of the History of Nursing).
Easter
Procession to Alice Fisher's Grave in the Woodland Cemetary,
Circa 1900. From the Collection
of Philadelphia General Hospital. See Special Event for
the upcoming procession.
TALKS
20 The Puzzle of Authority
in the Zaydi Madhhab; Aron Zysow, Harvard; Bernard
Haykel, NYU; 4:30 p.m.; rm. B2, Meyerson Hall (Middle
East Center).
21 New Horizons in
U.S. Relations with South Asia; Christina Rocca,
Department of State; 4:30 p.m.; Terrace Room, Logan Hall;
rsvp: (215) 898-1732 (Center for Advanced Study of India).
22 Signaling by Phosphoinositide
3-Kinases; Jonathon Backer, Albert Einstein College
of Medicine; noon; Conference Room, John Morgan Bldg.
(Radiation Oncology).
27 Regulation of Contractile
Force in Tissue Constructs; Elliot Elson, Washington
University; noon; rm. 2000, Vagelos Research Labs (Institute
for Medicine and Engineering).
Adventures
in Neurogenetics; Seymour Benzer, California Institute
of Technology; 4 p.m.; Austrian Auditorium, Clinical
Research Bldg. (Mahoney Institute; Franklin Institute).
Deadlines: The
deadline for the weekly Update is each Monday for the
following week's issue. The deadline for the Summer AT
PENN calendar
is May 11. See www.upenn.edu/almanac/calendar/caldead-real.html.