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Passport to Possibility: First-Gen Students Expand Their Horizons and Make Connections in London
In Winter 2026, PICS Lecturer Tina Sula and Global Engagement Project Manager Janelle Pangilinan led 20 first-generation students on a life-changing global networking journey.
Congratulations to Andries Coetzee!
Andries W. Coetzee, ASC faculty-associate and former director, was named a 2025 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Events
Apr
07
Multi
CAS Exhibit. Making Armenian Americans - Project Save Photograph Archive/Archive Alive Project
10th Floor Gallery, Weiser Hall from February 2 to April 30, 2026
8:00 AM
Apr
07
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Yuan Architecture: Where Are the Mongols?
Nancy Steinhardt, Professor of East Asian Art; Curator of Chinese Art, University of Pennsylvania
12:00 PM
10th Floor
Weiser Hall
Apr
07
Donia Human Rights Center and Weiser Diplomacy Center Lecture | Addressing Human Rights and Democracy: The Challenges and Opportunities for Business
Michael Posner - Jerome Kohlberg Professor of Ethics and Finance, NYU Stern School of Business
4:30 PM
Room 1010
Weiser Hall
Apr
08
Border-Riding: The Works of David Chung
Remarks by Meredith Woo (Former Director of the Nam Center for Korean Studies), Natsu Oyobe (Art Curator of UMMA), Carlos Jackson (Dean of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design)
1:30 PM
10th Floor
Weiser Hall
Apr
08
2026 Sang-Yong Nam Memorial Lecture and Award Ceremony
Meredith Woo, Former Director of the Nam Center
4:45 PM
10th Floor
Weiser Hall
Apr
09
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Powering Empire: Hydroelectricity and Highland Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule
John Kanbayashi, Assistant Professor of History & Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
12:00 PM
10th Floor
Weiser Hall
(for II staff and faculty; requires SSO login)
