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Vaccine shortage puts Penn flu shot program in doubt
As you’ve probably heard by now, the flu vaccine is in short supply. Because of the unexpected shortfall, Penn may or may not run its flu shot program this year. As more information becomes available, Penn’s Human Resources department will keep our community updated.
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Voting rights for all?
During the manual recount and examination of Florida ballots from the 2000 Presidential election, late-night comedians and editorial cartoonists had a field day with jokes about aging Florida voters. One cartoon from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune went as far as to call some voters “confused, simple-instructions-challenged Florida retirees.”
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Faculty Q&A: Peggy Reeves Sanday
FACULTY Q&A/A renowned anthropologist searches for stories and meaning in the Australian desert. When Peggy Reeves Sanday began researching the sacred stories about Australia’s Wolfe Creek Crater—a crater discovered by her father in 1947—she found the Aborigines who live near the crater decidedly tight-lipped. To them, everything about the 2,850-foot-wide crater is sacred and secret. So Sanday, Penn’s R. Jean Brownlee Term Professor of Anthropology, had to find a way to both tell their story and respect their culture.
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Penn Hosts Talk About Preservation of Jewish Heritage
Penn Hosts Talk About Preservation of Jewish HeritageWHO:Warren Miller, Chairman of the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage AbroadWHEN:Oct. 26, 20046-7:30 p.m.WHERE:University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolTannenbaum Hall, Room 145Sansom Street, between 34th and 36th streetsWarren Miller will discuss the fight against anti-Semitism in Europe, memorializing Holocaust sites and preservation of Jewish religious and cultural sites.
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Music to their ears...and eyes
Penn’s on-campus radio station, WXPN, has always had a loyal family of fans drawn to the stationís progressive blend of rock, folk, rhythm and blues and American roots. Since it began broadcasting in the 1940s, though, WXPN has operated out of the lowliest of digs, a series of retrofitted campus buildings more suitable for a fraternity than a major radio station.
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New garden ready to take root at Morris Arboretum
What better way to remember a plant lover than to design a garden in his honor? That was the thinking behind the J.L. Pennock Garden, currently under construction between the Garden Railway and the Rose Garden at Penn’s Morris Arboretum. J. Liddon Pennock, in whose memory the garden is being created and whose endowment gift to the Arboretum will help maintain it, died last spring at the age of 90. For most of his life, he ran the family business, a Center City flower shop that provided floral decorations for countless society weddings as well as the Nixon White House.
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Out & About: Tune in to the issues
The legal issues that captivate our country range from women’s rights to the role of religion in elections, gay marriage to national security, campaign finance reform to medical malpractice. And there’s one forum that ensures a lively, provocative discussion from experts on both sides of an issue—without the yelling and name-calling. That forum is "Justice Talking," the radio show produced by the Annenberg Public Policy Center that airs on National Public Radio (Mondays at 10 p.m. on WHYY-91 FM).
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At Work With...Joe Testa
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Staff Q&A: John Mark Ockerbloom
While studying computer science in the late 1980s and early 1990s, John Mark Ockerbloom couldn’t help but notice that little invention called the Internet. He was particularly struck by the impact the Web had on university libraries—and the potential it held for revolutionizing the business of books and information.
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Penn's Center for Community Partnerships Wins National Partnerships for Health Award
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania Center for Community Partnerships has received an honorable mention at the 2004 third annual Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Awards. The awards highlight the power and potential of partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions as a strategy for improving health.The Center was recognized for helping create university-assisted community schools that function as centers of education, services, engagement and activity for students, their parents and other West Philadelphia community members.