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Breastfeeding Advocates Help Communities Latch onto A Good Idea
PHILADELPHIA -- In a city where barely 20 % of impoverished women breastfeed, changing attitudes toward breastfeeding has become a matter of course for students from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Since 1995, Nursing 361 has required students to take part in a community advocacy program of their own design. This month in the Journal of Human Lactation, the course's instructor offers guidelines for others to conduct such projects, as well as a model to demonstrate how advocacy can change communities.
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Penn Robotics Lab Receives $5 Million Grant to Develop Robot Swarms from MARS
PHILADELPHIA -- Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have received a $5 million grant from the Department of Defense to develop large-scale "swarms" of robots that could work together to thoroughly search large areas from the ground and sky. The Scalable Swarms of Autonomous Robots and Sensors or the Swarms Project, as it is known takes organizational cues from the natural world where tens or even hundreds of small, independent robots work together to accomplish specific tasks, such as finding a bomb in a crowded city.
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Huntsman: Honesty still matters
Jon M. Huntsman still believes in such basic virtues as honesty and integrity. Given the state of American business, he wishes other executives did as well. “We’re taught as children not to cut in line. We’re taught manners,” says Huntsman, Chairman of the Board of Overseers at the Wharton School. “Business doesn’t need to be a cutthroat enterprise. You can be a decent person ... and still be very successful.”
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Running with the stats
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How to get in on the wheel deal
Features How to get in on the wheel deal Staff Q&A: David Fox
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Bookquick: Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
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Out and About: At market
Columns Ask Benny: What are summer hours for facilities? Out and About: To market
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Will T.O. stay or will he go?
After more than 20 years of working in and studying the tough world of sports business—including time spent as a sports agent and writing a book about the agent business—Wharton legal studies professor Kenneth Shropshire has learned a thing or two about the nastiness of contract negotiations. But when asked to predict the outcome of the increasingly bitter contract dispute between the Philadelphia Eagles and star receiver Terrell Owens, even Shropshire says he can’t guess what will happen. He just knows it should be interesting to watch.
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Ask Benny: What are summer hours for facilities?
Dear Benny, I’m a workout fanatic, and I usually prefer to hit the gym after work. But with summer approaching, does Pottruck have shorter hours? Am I going to have to start working out in the morning? Also, are other Penn facilities adjusting their hours for the summer?—Gym Rat
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Staff Q&A: David Fox
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