Events
This will be a virtual seminar, via Zoom. We welcome attendees in room 111 Levin Building for group viewing and Q&A with the speaker after the talk. A pizza lunch will be served. Please bring your own beverage. To join remotely, please contact us for the Zoom link: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Fiona Jordan Department […]
1st-year graduate students in Linguistics will present mini-talks.
Alexis Wellwood Departments of Philosophy, Linguistics & Psychology USC Naturalizing and quantifying events and processes Philosophers and linguists have long debated how best to model the distinct referential profiles of nouns like ‘water’ and ‘cup’, and an apparently parallel distinction between verbs like ‘sleep’ and ‘jump’. For example, while it is both straightforward […]
Michael Marks CHOP Research Institute Tales from the Dark Side: Cellular Mechanisms Underlying Syndromic Albinism Dr. Marks is a cell biologist who studies the molecular mechanisms underlying the formation and maturation of melanosomes, the organelles within retinal pigment epithelia and other eye pigment cells (and skin melanocytes) in which melanin pigments are synthesized […]