Architecture and Public Sculpture Walking Tour of the Penn Campus
Sunday, July 19 @ 2:00-4:00 pm
Registration form coming soon
Join us for the next installment of our Philadelphia Architecture and Public Sculpture Walking Tours! On Sunday, May 31, Dr. Martin Rosenberg, Professor Emeritus of Art History at Rutgers University, and AIA architect Carter Reich will guide us through the University of Pennsylvania campus — home to outstanding examples of both architecture and public art.
Highlights will include the extraordinary Fisher Fine Arts Library (1888 – 1890), designed by renowned Victorian Gothic architect Frank Furness, as well as Split Button by Pop artist Claes Oldenburg with Coosje van Bruggen, also known for The Clothespin across from Philadelphia City Hall.
Registration will be limited to 15 participants. Information about registration, meeting location, and additional details will be available later this spring.
Coolanu (Hebrew for “all of us”) brings together Society Hill Synagogue congregants across and within generations for fun outings, arts and culture programs, and specially curated social gatherings at the synagogue and select locations. 
Dr. Stefanie Horovitz, The Isotope Lady: A Presentation by Dr. Stephen Cohen
Stephen Cohen has been involved with the history of chemistry for three decades. He received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at Rice University in Houston, Texas. His research into chemical history includes chemical literature in the Yiddish language. He has written and published books and academic papers, including O Mg! How Chemistry Came to Be (World Scientific Press, 2022), a graphic novel on the history of chemistry; and America’s Scientific Treasures, 2nd edition (Oxford University Press, 2020), a travel guide to science and technology sites around the USA. He contributed an entry in the Shalvi-Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women on Maria the Jewess. Cohen is a Board member of the Royal Society of Chemistry-US Section, a member of the Philadelphia Section of the American Chemical Society, and he hosted the popular podcast, “The History of Chemistry,” from 2022-2025. He is the recipient of the 2026 James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public from the American Chemical Society. Cohen is also the Treasurer of the Midwest Jewish Studies Association, with publications on the history of Jewish calligraphy, history of Jewish choral music, and literary criticism of a 1980 Yiddish science-fiction novella. 
Coolanu is going to the Kimmel to see Itzhak Perlman and Friends!