Past Science Cafe Events
Penn Science Café: Pub Night
Penn Science Café
Join us for an evening of cosmology and camaraderie.
Be sure to join Penn Art & Sciences for a special "Pub night" for Penn alums in London.
Penn Science Café: Sex, Courtship, and Bird Behavior Go High Tech
Speaker: Marc Schmidt
Penn Science Café
Join us for an engaging, stimulating conversation, with a Q&A session following the talk.
During the breeding season, male birds work very hard to impress potential partners, often using complex courtship rituals involving song and movement.
Science Café: Science on the Menu
Speaker: Arnold Mathijssen
Penn Science Café
Penn Arts & Sciences is collaborating with Philabundance for a special Science Café focused on food science and food insecurity.
Join us at Xfinity Live during the Camp Ou
Penn Science Café: The Architecture of Sustainability
Speaker: Karen Goldberg, Vagelos Professor of Energy Research and Director of the Vagelos Institute of Energy Science and Technology
,Speaker: Mark Kocent, University Architect
,Speaker: Michelle Lee, Project Architect, Behnisch Architekten
Penn Science Café
Join us for an engaging, stimulating conversation, with a Q&A session following the talk.
With a summer marked by record-setting weather events around the globe, focus on the critical importance of sustainability is greater than ever.
Virtual Penn Science Café: Climate Change Consequences for Plants, Whose Lives Depend on the Sun
Speaker: Brenda Casper, Professor of Biology and Chair of Earth and Environmental Science
,Speaker: Brent Helliker, Professor of Biology
Penn Science Café
Plants are already showing the impact of human-induced climate change: they’re flowering earlier, shifting their growing range, and climbing mountains, all the while saving us from even greater climate-change impacts.