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Enjoying a 'peculiar' retirement
Since her retirement, Ruth Schwartz Cowan’s career has really taken off. Not too long ago, frustrated with her job at the State University of New York at Stony Brook—a place that often made her feel, she says, like an academic “outlier,” despite her sterling reputation as a historian of science and technology— Cowan decided it was time to move on.
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Penn Library's Marian Anderson Collection Photo is the Inspiration for Postage Stamp Design
Penn Library's Marian Anderson Collection Photo is the Inspiration for Postage Stamp DesignJan. 27, 2005PHILADELPHIA The image of singer and Philadelphia native Marian Anderson featured on the U.S. Postal Service's latest black heritage commemorative stamp is based on a photo in a special Penn Library collection. The stamp, depicting Anderson wearing a burgundy colored dress, is based on a black-and-white 1934 Mois Benko photograph housed at the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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Quake, tsunami among worst ever
The geologic forces that caused the massive earthquake and tsunami in Southeast Asia late last month are so enormous, even an expert like Gomaa Omar says he has a hard time putting them into words. “These forces are huge,” says Omar, a graduate group chairman in Penn’s Department of Earth and Environmental Science. “They are beyond human comprehension.”
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Stealing beauty, culture
Penn archaeologist Clark Erickson is an expert on the ancient cultures of Peru and Bolivia. Over the years he’s also become something of an expert on international crime. That was never in his career plan, but the sites he excavates in South America have become major magnets for looters in search of valuable antiquities to sell on the black market.
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Eating by the book—a no-fad diet for life
As a working mother of two, Lisa Hark knows what it’s like to have hungry kids in the car at the end of a long day, begging to stop at the Wawa for a donut. “Healthy food first,”is Hark’s mantra, and she’s often found that once the hunger pangs have been satisfied, the siren song of junk food fades off into the distance.
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Two Penn Startups Receive Seed Funding from the Biotechnology Greenhouse of Southeastern Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA -- Two new companies based on technologies developed at the University of Pennsylvania are among the seven start-ups receiving seed capital today from BioAdvance, the Biotechnology Greenhouse of Southeastern Pennsylvania. Avid Radiopharmaceuticals, which develops diagnostic tools for Alzheimer disease, and Marillion Pharmaceuticals, which creates target cancer chemotherapies, will each receive $500,000 as part of the Greenhouse fund third cycle of investment.
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Penn Appoints Michael Harris as Associate Vice President in the Office of the Executive Vice President
PHILADELPHIA -- Michael E. Harris has been appointed associate vice president in the Office of the Executive Vice President at the University of Pennsylvania. He assumes his new position Feb. 1.
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“Sam Maitin: A Life in Art” at Penn’s Arthur Ross Gallery: Tribute to a Celebrated Philadelphia Artist
PHILADELPHIA -- "Sam Maitin: A Life in Art" will be on display Feb. 10 through April 17 at the Arthur Ross Gallery, 220 S. 34th St., on the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia. Additional works will be concurrently shown at Steinhardt Hall, home of Penn Hillel. The Arthur Ross Gallery is open Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Saturday-Sunday, noon-5 p.m. Exhibitions are free and open to the public.
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Expert Comment on Privatizing Social Security
Expert Comment on Privatizing Social Securityfrom the University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolJan. 20, 2005David Skeel, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, teaches, researches and writes about corporate and bankruptcy law
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Researchers Define Who We Are When We Work Together and Evolutionary Origins of the "Wait and See" Approach
PHILADELPHIA -- Whether it is barn-raising or crafting a business plan, humans are among the few creatures that are able to work well cooperatively. According to an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, our success at cooperation results from three distinct personality types.