Events

Vision Seminar: Robert Mullins

January 27, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

This seminar will also stream via Zoom. For the link, please email: jmarcus@upenn.edu   Robert Mullins Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences University of Iowa   Annoyed in the choroid: complement activation and its role in macular degeneration   The choroid is the highly vascularized connective tissue that provides support for the overlying retinal pigment […]

We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please email: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu   Kyle Burger UNC/Monell   Neuroimaging of Ingestive Behavior: Insights into Food Reinforcement & Branding   Preference for a sweet taste is innate and considered an evolutionary advantage, signaling an available energy source. Yet high sugar intake is a significant contributor to a […]

ILST Seminar: Matthew Hewett

January 31, 2025
1:15 PM - 3:00 PM

Matthew Hewett Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania   “Singular they and the syntax of townhouses” (Joint work with Karlos Arregi)   Existing analyses of singular they (e.g. Bjorkman 2017, Conrod 2019, Konnelly & Cowper 2020) don’t provide an account of the fact that it obligatorily triggers plural verbal agreement, despite having singular reference (e.g. […]