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April 15,2019 Notice is hereby given of the Slate of Nominees for the Board of Governors. The nominees, all of whom have indicated their willingness to serve, are as follows: To serve a 3-year term beginning upon election in May (2019-2022) David Earley joined the University of Pennsylvania in 2014 as a Senior Information Security Analyst, and joined the University Club shortly after. Prior to joining Penn, he served for over a decade with a DoD defense contractor in a variety of IT and technical roles. He has greatly enjoyed the atmosphere and camaraderie offered at the University Club, and has been on the Board since 2016. He also serves as a Corporal in the US Marine Corps Reserves, Eugene Janda has extensive fire safety and emergency preparedness experience from his 22 years with the Philadelphia Fire Department where he rose to the rank of Fire Captain and Acting Battalion Chief. He trained 660 firefighters (25% of the force) and indoctrinated 200 paramedics. In 2000, Mr. Janda brought his expertise to Penn’s Division of Public Safety as a safety specialist in Fire & Emergency Services. By 2003 he had assumed the role of Deputy Chief overseeing the day-to-day operations of a team of five Safety Specialists. In 2008 he became Chief; his specialties are review of construction and renovation projects, fire protection reliability, and emergency preparedness of the campus. During his tenure he has helped with the development of the University Crisis Management Plan, is the Co-Chair for the University City Emergency Preparedness Steering Team and Advisor to the Penn Medical Emergency Response Team. He holds a Certified Fire Protection Specialist designation from the National Fire Protection, maintains his EMT certification from the Commonwealth, and has a Masters’ of Environmental Studies degree from Penn.
Rashmi Kumar is Specialist in STEM Learning at the Weingarten Center. In her work at Penn, Dr. Kumar develops active learning approaches and identifies techniques for students to enhance/demonstrate competency in STEM disciplines through digital tools. Dr. Kumar has been recognized as a STEM Educator by the NASA Endeavor Project. She explores the design of learning environments to engage students in STEM disciplines across a wide range of preferences and backgrounds. She also teaches at the Graduate School of Education, serves on the PAACH Advisory Board, and collaborates with several of Penn’s schools and centers to develop programming and outreach for students in STEM degrees/coursework.
Robert Perlish is the Director of Fiscal Operations for the Department of Genetics in the Perelman School of Medicine. He has been employed with the University since 1996, and has held multiple financial and operational positions with increasing responsibility within the PSOM. During his time at Penn, Mr. Perlish has participated in numerous University and School advisory committees, including the eCommerce Advisory Board, Association of Business Administrators Steering Committee, co-Chaired the PSOM Academic Advisory Board, and was a member of the Perelman School of Medicine IT Council. Additionally, he is a long-standing member of the University Club. John Rudolph completed 31 years of service to Penn in March. Mr. Rudolph previously served on the Board of Governors, University Club, as Past President. As Manager of the Office of Student Employment he is responsible for overseeing Penn’s on-campus and off-campus work-study program. In his volunteer life at Penn he is an advisor with Office of Student Conduct. To serve a 2-year term beginning upon election in May (2019-2021) Kristin Cummings joined Penn in 2015 as the coordinating liaison for the University Club at Penn. She came to the position with a background in restaurant marketing and passion in photography. After a little over three years working at Hospitality Services, she was hired as the associate director of marketing and communications for Residential and Hospitality Services. She received her Bachelors in Arts from Richmond, The American International University in London focusing her studies in Communications. During her time at Penn she attended conferences with Ivy Plus, ACCED-I and the American Marketing Association. To serve a 1-year term beginning upon election in May (2019-2020)
Joanne Spigonardo C’81, W’06, is senior associate director of business development, Wharton Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership (IGEL). Joanne has an extensive background in public relations and program management. She was a former board member at the University Club for many years. Given that her travel schedule for work has been reduced, she has more time to devote to the Club. She has brought many events to the University Club and has provided good revenue for the Club in the past. In addition, she was active in the Club’s renovation and the Burrison Art Gallery. She has a good internal and external network that can provide further revenue and opportunities for the Club.
Notice is hereby given of the Slate of Nominees for the Board of Governors. The nominees, all of whom have indicated their willingness to serve, are as follows: Dr. Thomas C. Barber, clinical associate, restorative dentistry, Penn School of Dental Medicine; he has a private practice. He has been on the Board of the Club since 2012 and has exhibited his paintings in the Burrison Gallery. Mary Kononenko, joined Penn in 2000. She began her career in the College of Arts and Sciences where she coordinated the College Graduation Ceremony for several years Currently she is an Associate Director of the Biobehavioral and Health Sciences Department in the School of Nursing. She has been a member of the University Club Board since 2011 and has been a member of the University Club since coming to Penn and enjoys the Club atmosphere and getting together with friends. It would be an honor to serve on the Board. Anna Loh, senior director, Human Resources, Wharton, has extensive human resources experience in a variety of industries, including banking, insurance, law, consulting, and higher education. At Wharton, she establishes and implements Wharton Human Resources’ strategic direction for the School’s four locations, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Washington D.C. and Beijing, China. She joined Penn in 1992 as the assistant director of Wharton Human Resources. She twice served as the chair of the Penn Professional Staff Assembly, an organization that provides a forum through which staff can engage in dialogue about issues facing the University and higher education. She holds a BA in psychology from Temple University and completed course work for an MS in the Organizational Dynamics program at Penn. Michael McGarvey, is an associate professor of neurology at the Perelman School of Medicine. Clinically, he specializes in the management of acute stroke and perioperative complications and his research interests also include neurophysiology. He is a long-time resident of University City and the current president of the Club. He has been active in the Faculty Senate and the University Council as well as the Medical Faculty Council Steering Committee. Dieter M. Schifferli is a microbiologist and veterinarian studying the mechanisms of pathogenesis from various bacterial infectious agents, such as Salmonella, E. coli, and Yersinia pestis, the agent of bubonic and pneumonic plague. He joined Penn’s department of pathobiology at the School of Veterinary Medicine as a faculty member in 1990 where he became a standing tenured faculty with the rank of professor. He studies how bacterial molecules interact with host molecules to cause disease in order to identify the Achilles’ heel of a pathogen for the development of therapeutics and prophylactic approaches such as vaccines. Dieter Schifferli was born in Zürich, Switzerland, and raised in Geneva where he got his B.S. in 1972. He graduated in 1977 from the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland, where he earned his DMV in 1979. He raised as the chief assistant at the School’s Microbiology Diagnostic Laboratory in 1981. He got a Swiss National Science foundation grant to join the University of Tennessee, Memphis as a postdoctoral fellow (1984-86), where he did a Ph.D. in bacterial pathogenesis (1990).
In preparation for voting at the Annual Meeting, May 10, 2017
There are five candidates for five seats for the upcoming fiscal year (July 2017-June 2018) There are four current board members (Fevzi Daldai, John Eldred, Marguerite Miller and Paul Weidner) who are interested in returning for a full three-year term and there is one new candidate who is also interested in serving for a three-year term on the board.
M. Fevzi Daldal is a microbiologist, working on how the food or light energy is converted into chemical energy (i.e., cellular energy production) in cells (bacteria and higher organisms) via respiration and photosynthesis. He was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey, until the end of the high school (1969); graduated from Lyon engineering school (INSA de Lyon), France (1974), completed his doctoral thesis at Pasteur University, Strasbourg and Paris, France (1977); joined as a postdoctoral fellow Harvard Medical School, Boston MA (1978), moved as a senior scientist to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Long Island, NY (1982). He joined Penn’s department of biology in the School of Arts & Sciences as a faculty member in 1988. He is a standing faculty at the rank of professor. John Eldred specializes in creating change in leaders, family businesses and communities around the world. His work has been cited in The New York Times, The Wall St. Journal, the European Labor Relations Review, and FastCompany Magazine. He has taught courses in positive organization politics at both the Wharton School and Organization Dynamics of the University of Pennsylvania since 1979. HarveenKaur Kothari joined Penn’s Facilities and Real Estate Services (FRES) in June of 2016 as director of Locust Area, Operations and Maintenance where she is responsible for overseeing operation and maintenance of Housing and Conference Services buildings, School of Veterinary Medicine, School of Dental Medicine, Graduate School of Education, School of Social Policy & Practice and Vice Provost of University Life. Ms. Harveen came to Penn with more than 16 years of experience, having served as the general manager of sites for the Philadelphia Housing Authority where she was responsible for overseeing the facilities and maintenance of over 36 different sites. Prior to PHA, she worked at the New York architectural firm of Arquitectonica before moving to Philadelphia to perform construction management for a developer. She received her bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Mumbai and her master’s degree in architecture from Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. Marguerite F. Miller, editor of Almanac since 1999, joined Penn in 1980 as assistant editor of Almanac and was promoted to associate editor in 1986. She brought Penn’s weekly journal of record, opinion and news to a worldwide audience via the Internet in 1995, launched Express Almanac —an electronic mailing list in 2000 and has led efforts to enhance Almanac’s website integrating the electronic and print editions. Since 2006, she has served on the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Symposium Executive Planning Committee and Public Relations Committee as well as coordinating the Day of Service Literacy Project to put books on tape. Paul Weidner is currently Director of Financial Training, after holding positions in the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School. He has been a member of the University Club for over 10 years and served on the Board for the past 6, including serving on the Membership & Finance Committees. Paul is passionate about the Club being a unique and vital resource within Penn as a space for scholarly exchange. Paul would like to again serve Penn and the Club members as a Board member.
An Appreciation To paint en plein air is to paint out in the open air, a venerable practice since the early nineteenth century. The British painter John Constable, for example, under the influence of the Romantic demand for authenticity, the emotion of the moment's inspiration, made many of his sketches in the manner, and later worked up his larger canvases in the studio. A little later, in France, the Barbizon school, named for a small village near the Forest of Fontainebleau where artists such as Theodore Rousseau settled, took up the practice, followed by many of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists (notably Camille Pissaro and his friend Paul Cezanne, though Edgar Degas apparently abhorred the idea). Here in this country, it appears to have been part of the practice of artists associated with the Cos Cob artist's colony in Connecticut, like John Twachtman and Theodore Robinson, as well as the Pennsylvania Impressionists, also known as the New Hope School (principally Edward W. Redfield), both groups active about the turn of the last century. All of which is to say that Joe Danciger, whose exhibit, Meeting Place, is currently on view at the Burrison Gallery of the Penn Club, is in pretty good company. A graduate of both the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania (where he studied with the landscape painter Neil Welliver, whose influence is clear but not overwhelming), Dancigar's paintings exhibit a fine eye and a deft brush. His motif, or subject matter, appears to be principally near his home in New Jersey and along the upper Delaware River, though he also ranges further afield, with excursions to St. Michaels (I assume in Maryland, thoroughly cognizant of the dangers of assumption) and the Big Bend area of Texas, as well as Olana, in the Hudson River Valley, home to one of Danciger's precursors, Frederick Edwin Church. En plein air often carries a freshness, a vitality, that studio work lacks, even if the studio work is from studies created in the open air, and Danciger's work is no exception. Some of these paintings (the smallest are 8" x 10", the largest, 22" x 28") feel as if the artist had just stepped away from the painting mere moments ago. In The Delaware, it appears that a single spontaneous long brushstroke defines the narrow bole of a tree leaning toward the river. With Rocky Broad River, the expressionist strokes that form the river and its whitecaps are rendered in a medium that still seems so liquid (no dates are provided) that you fear you might get hit with river spray if you venture too close to the painting. By contrast, in the three or four Big Bend paintings, the medium is so dryly applied that you get a real sense of the relative aridity of southwest Texas. Danciger has an almost unerring eye for place. I'd really like to see the unruly tumble of My Back Woods, a kind of liminal area you might still find in some not-overdeveloped suburbs. I have seen the harbor at St. Michaels (if it is Maryland) but I don't remember it being this empty and peaceful. I'd like to see any and all of these places, these locations, these motifs. But I really don't have to because Joe Danciger has been kind enough, and skillful enough, and thought-full enough, to have brought them to me. And to you.
John Devine - 11.29.2016
In accordance with the University Club Bylaws, official notice is hereby given of the Nominating Committee’s slate of nominees which has been approved by the University Club’s Board of Governors in preparation for voting at the Annual Meeting of the University Club. The meeting will be held at the Club on May 17 at noon. All members of the Club are encouraged and invited to attend. The nominees have, all of whom have indicated their willingness to serve, are: University Club Nominees are as follows:
M. Fevzi Daldal is a microbiologist, working on how the food or light energy is converted into chemical energy (i.e., cellular energy production) in cells (bacteria and higher organisms) via respiration and photosynthesis. He was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey, until the end of the high school (1969); graduated from Lyon engineering school (INSA de Lyon), France (1974), completed his doctoral thesis at Pasteur University, Strasbourg and Paris, France (1977); joined as a postdoctoral fellow Harvard Medical School, Boston MA (1978), moved as a senior scientist to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Long Island, NY (1982). He joined Penn’s Department of Biology as a faculty member in 1988. Since then, he is a standing faculty at the rank of Professor in this department. David James Earley joined the University of Pennsylvania in September 2014 as a Senior Information Security Analyst, and joined the University Club shortly after. Prior to joining Penn, he served for over a decade with a DoD defense contractor in a variety of IT and technical roles. He has greatly enjoyed the atmosphere and camaraderie offered at the University Club, and looks forward to the opportunity to further the Club's interests. David also currently serves as a Corporal in the US Marine Corps Reserves. He said, "I am ready and willing to serve the University Club, the Board of Governors, and ultimately its members. Thank you for considering me as a nominee, and if appointed, will endeavor to serve with all the diligence, integrity, and thoughtfulness required for such a position." John Eldred specializes in creating change in leaders, family businesses and communities around the world. His work has been cited in The New York Times, The Wall St. Journal, the European Labor Relations Review, and FastCompany Magazine. He has taught courses in positive organization politics at both the Wharton School and Organization Dynamics of the University of Pennsylvania since 1979. Philip Gehrman is an assistant professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry of the Perelman School of Medicine, and a clinical psychologist at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center. Dr. Gehrman directs the Sleep and Traumatic Stress program at Penn. He completed his graduate training in clinical psychology at the University of California, San Diego including a predoctoral internship at the Durham VA Medical Center and a post-doctoral fellowship in sleep medicine at Penn. He has an active research program exploring the mechanisms and treatment of insomnia in the context of mental illness. His work includes studies on the genetics of insomnia for which he leads an international consortium of genetics researches. Dr. Gehrman also has an active research program on sleep problems in veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Dr. Gehrman’s clinical work is in the area of Behavioral Sleep Medicine and he provides cognitive behavioral interventions for sleep disorders. His clinical work includes a national telehealth insomnia program in the VA. Eugene Janda has extensive fire safety and emergency preparedness experience from his 22 years with the Philadelphia Fire Department (PFD). During his tenure within the PFD, he rose to the rank of Fire Captain and Acting Battalion Chief. Within a six-year period, he trained 660 firefighters (approximately 25% of the force) and indoctrinated 200 paramedics. In 2000, Mr. Janda brought his expertise to Penn’s Division of Public Safety as a safety specialist in Fire & Emergency Services. By 2003 he had assumed the role of Deputy Chief overseeing the day-to-day operations of a team of 5 Safety Specialists. In 2008 he became Chief where he continues to provide a strong strategic direction for his team. His specialties are plans review of construction and renovation projects, fire protection reliability, and emergency preparedness of the campus community. During his tenure he has helped with the development of the University Crisis Management Plan, he is the Co-Chair for the University City Emergency Preparedness Steering Team and Advisor to the Penn Medical Emergency Response Team. He also holds a Certified Fire Protection Specialist (CFPS) designation from the National Fire Protection, maintains his Emergency Medical Technician certification from the Commonwealth, and has a Masters’ of Environmental Studies degree from Penn. Mary Kononenko is as an Associate Director for the Biobehavioral Health Sciences Department in the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Cabrini College, and a Masters in Organizational Dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently a Board Member of Soroptimist International in Bucks County, an organization of “Women helping Women.” Michael Lord earned his BS in Nursing (summa cum laude/honors program, 2007) from Misericordia University, his in MS Nursing (Norma Lang Dean’s Award for Excellence in Scholarly Practice, 2011) from Penn, and his Doctor of Nursing Practice (Jonas Nurse Leaders Scholar, 2015) from Yale University. Dr. Lord is currently a full-time faculty member at Penn’s School of Nursing (Nurse Anesthesia Program). He has maintained clinical practice as a certified registered nurse anesthetist in diverse care settings ranging from the solo anesthesia provider role to the anesthesia care team model, from ambulatory surgery centers to the highest acuity trauma center in the country. Dr. Lord has been recognized as the Pennsylvania Association of Nurse Anesthetists’ 2011 Clinical Instructor of the Year and has served his profession actively in roles as board member, committee chair, and on task forces in various capacities at the state and national levels. Martin J. Silverstein ‘Red and Blue’ runs through the veins of this Penn Law School alumnus. Martin’s wife, mother-in-law and five of his six children all attended Penn. Martin is an attorney with the law firm of Greenberg Traurig, LLP. He serves as a Trustee of the Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System (PSERS) and the University of Pennsylvania. He is also an Overseer at Penn Nursing, sits on the Federal Judicial Nomination Advisory Panel and as a Judge Pro Tempore in the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania. Martin has previously served in the United States Department of State and the United States Treasury/Internal Revenue Service. He is particularly proud of his service as a VISTA member (Volunteer in Service to America) with the Corporation for National & Community Service. Martin enjoys the comfort, camaraderie and convenience of the University Club. He believes the Club is a campus jewel and would like to encourage more frequent use by the university family. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas is an assistant professor in the Division of Reading/Writing/Literacy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. A former Detroit Public Schools teacher, Dr. Thomas’s program of research is most keenly focused on children’s and adolescent literature, the teaching of African American literature, and the role of race in English language arts classroom discourse and interaction. A 2014 National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and recipient of the AERA Language and Social Processes SIG Emerging Scholar Award, her forthcoming book is The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination in Youth Literature, Media, and Culture. In accordance with the Club Bylaws, nominating petitions signed by at least five Regular Members of the University Club may be submitted to the Secretary of the University Club, on behalf of other individuals. All such nominations must be accompanied by a written statement on the part of each nominee, indicating his or her willingness to serve, with such biographical data as the nominee desires to be published. In the event such a petition or petitions shall have been filed, the Secretary shall add the names of the petition nominees, their biographical data, and the term for which Board membership has been south, to that of the posted nominees. Petitions must be received no later than 14 days subsequent to the circulation of the nominees of the Nominating Committee. Petitions must be received by mail attn: Marguerite Miller, Almanac, 3910 Chestnut Street/3111 or may be hand carried to the University Club, by 5 p.m., May 4, 2016.
The Economy and The Markets - What's Next? Jeremy Siegel is the Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance at the Wharton School. Siegel comments extensively on the economy and financial market; appears regularly on networks such as CNN, CNBC and NPR, and writes regular columns for Kiplinger's Personal Finance and Yahoo! LRSM Science Cafe presents The emissions-control systems on modern automobiles and trucks are amazingly successful and amazingly complex. With gasoline-powered vehicles, the basic technology has been unchanged for more than 20 years. It employs feedback computer control of the engine and increasingly sophisticated tailpipe sensors and catalysts. However, because this technology requires that the engine be operated at the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio, it cannot be used with the more efficient lean-burn engines, which includes Diesel engines. The emissions systems on these vehicles are even more complex and amount to having a chemical plant in your tailpipe.
February 4, 2016 Dear Members, I am thrilled to announce and welcome you to the University Club's Grand Reopening on Monday, February 8th at 11:30 am. The look and feel will be fresher and brighter, and you will see the same familiar faces you remember. The University Club Team is excited to share with you this elevated experience with chef-curated meals that fall within a theme. The new service style includes a chef-manned action station, featuring made-to-order entrees or specialty sandwiches. The new lunch menu includes daily specials including soup, an action station, a self-serve station and dessert. You will also still see the fully stocked salad bar and hot and cold beverages. Our goal in working with Chef Eileen on the new menus was to add more artisan ingredients without increasing costs, but that is not always possible. In an effort to keep the University Club as a premier on-campus dining establishment, the Board of Governors did have to make the decision to increase the lunch price to a flat fee of $12.95. We feel that even with this increase, the University Club is still one of the best values on campus. We hope that you will join us in celebrating the reopening of the University Club in the coming weeks. In addition to joining us for lunch next week, we'd also like to invite you to our Kick Off Party on Thursday, February 18th from 4:30 to 7:30 pm. More details to come. We look forward to seeing you soon! Sincerely,
Dear Members, I want to share some exciting news. The University Club at Penn will be undergoing renovations over the winter break, including much needed cosmetic improvements to the look and feel of the Club. The last day of service before the renovations is December 8, 2015 with plans to reopen February 8, 2016. When we return, the Club will be vibrant as ever with the same friendly faces you see on a daily basis. As we prepare for the newly renovated Club, we are reaching out to you in order to freshen up the artwork. We are looking for Penn-related pieces in a variety of media that could be loaned or purchased by the University Club. If you have Penn-related works you would like to display at the Club, please submit them to us for consideration. Send a digital image to the Club Coordinating Liaison, Kristin Cummings at krc@upenn.edu. I also urge you to participate in our long-standing holiday tradition of contributing to the Holiday Staff Fund. It’s our way of saying thank you to the staff of the University Club—the cashiers, dining room attendants, buffet area servers, and kitchen staff. Please make your contribution by the deadline of Friday, December 11th, so we may distribute the funds to the staff prior to the holidays. You may do so online through the University Club website, www.upenn.edu/universityclub or by sending a check payable to: Inn at Penn/University Club. Please indicate on your check that it is for the UClub Staff Fund.
You may, alternatively, mail or bring your check to: Contributions to this fund are not tax-deductible. I thank you advance for your support and generosity for the Holiday Staff Fund. I look forward to seeing you at the newly revitalized Club space in the new year, and hope you will celebrate with us at our grand re-opening at the end of January.
Ben Benjamin Wiggins, Ph.D. President, University Club Board of Governors Director of Digital Learning Initiatives University of Pennsylvania
We urge you to participate in our long-standing holiday tradition of contributing to the Holiday Staff Fund.
It's our way of saying thank you to the staff of the University Club-the cashiers, dining room attendants, buffet area servers, and kitchen staff. Please make your contribution by the deadline of Friday, December 11th, so we may distribute the funds to the staff prior to the holidays. You may do so via credit card through our Holiday Fund Online Store or by sending a check payable to: Inn at Penn/University Club. Please indicate on your check that it is for the UClub Staff Fund. You may, mail or bring your check to: University Club at Penn
Attn: Kristin Cummings
3611 Walnut Street, 2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Contributions to this fund are not tax-deductible. Thank you advance for your support and generosity for the Holiday Staff Fund. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Wednesday, December 2 5:00 - 7:00pm Meet Founder & Wharton Alum James Yoakum Sip on Signature Cocktails from Cooper River Distiller's Petty's Island White & Driftwood Dream Spiced Rums Sample the unique flavors of Petty's Island Rye Oak Reserve aged in charred white oak rye whiskey barrels $22 per person limited tickets available Click Here to Purchase Tickets ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Penn Science Cafe The University Club at Penn is proud to host the 2015-16 LRSM Science Cafes! Thursday, October 15th Doors open at 5:00pm Speaker begins at 6:00pm The Penn Science Cafe is open to the public at no cost. Food and beverages will be available for purchase. Deep Sea or Deep Space? Observations of structure and diversity in the near-universe and earth's own deep sea. by Alison Sweeney Physics & Astronomy University of Pennsylvania Most of the habitable volume of planet earth is in the deep ocean, far away from the surface and earth's atmosphere, or from the mostly muddy ocean floor. Creatures from this habitat live in a three-dimensional void something like a cartoon version of living in outer space. A surprising diversity of colors, reflective surfaces and light-emitting organs can also be found in the animals found here. These observations suggest that the habitat is as ecologically rich and structured as a coral reef or tropical rain forest, but since humans can't directly observe behavior in this environment, our studies must be forensic in nature. The animals in the deep sea are arguably more challenging to observe in any systematic way than planets in our solar system or nearby galaxies. This talk will discuss some of the common challenges to astronomical observations and deep-sea biology, and the ways in which humans can observe the near-universe are at a more scientifically mature state than our understanding of the deep ocean on our own planet. For more information visit www.lrsm.upenn.edu
Charles L. Nelson, MD, is Chief of the Joint Replacement Service and an Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he also served his residency. Dr. Nelson was recognized by Best Doctors in America in 2013-2014.
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