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They call it candy with a conscience, but when you have one of Jubilee Chocolates’ small, square confections in your hand, all you can really focus on is the candy—and getting it in your mouth as quickly as possible. The Philadelphia chocolate company, begun by a Penn grad and a former Wharton staffer, is known for giving back to the community. It’s also known for a line of gourmet chocolates that has garnered raves—from O: The Oprah Magazine to the New York Times—since it burst onto the scene four years ago.
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STAFF Q&A/Standing up for the rights of Penn’s weekly-paid staff is all in a day’s work for this Wharton School administrative assistant. As an administrative assistant in Wharton’s Healthcare Management Department, Sylvie Beauvais spends her workdays assisting two professors with research, publishing and managing classes. She also answers the phone, organizes files, creates and updates databases and interacts with students.
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Richard Estes says the United States might be the richest country in world history—the kind of place where a lucky, motivated person can amass an enormous fortune in a matter of years. It’s also the kind of place where children go to bed hungry and the elderly struggle to pay for their medicine.
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PHILADELPHIA -- Chemical analyses of ancient organics absorbed, and preserved, in pottery jars from the Neolithic village of Jiahu in Northern China have revealed that a mixed fermented beverage of rice, honey and fruit was being produced as early as 9,000 years ago, approximately the same time that barley beer and grape wine were beginning to be made in the Middle East.
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PHILADELPHIA- University of Pennsylvania students Harveen Bal and Gabriel Mandujano have been named Marshall Scholars, Bal selected in the New York region, Mandujano in the Washington, D.C. region. Bal, a senior health and societies major in the College of Arts and Sciences, is from Bloomfield, N.J., and a University Scholar at Penn. She will take an M.Phil. in development studies at the University of Oxford.
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WHAT: The Harold Berger Award is bestowed bi-annually by Penn School of Engineering and Applied Science to a technological innovator who has made a lasting contribution to the quality of our lives. WHO: Dean Kamen, inventor and physicist, founder of DEKA Research & Development and creator of the Segway Human Transporter. Kamen will receive the award for his creative use of technology to advance health care and his championing of engineering education.WHERE: University of Pennsylvania, Levine Hall, Wu & Chen Auditorium,
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PHILADELPHIA -- You can learn to snowshoe, help a local family, and check off your holiday shopping list when you visit University Square during the annual Holiday Fest from Dec. 13-17. This year, in addition to enjoying the specials offered by the merchants of Penn shopping and dining district, adventurous patrons can take advantage of free showshoe lessons from Eastern Mountain Sports. The lessons will be offered at noon Dec. 14 and 15 at EMS on 36th Street in University Square.
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PHILADELPHIA -- In a new book "The Education Gospel: The Economic Power of Schooling," University of Pennsylvania education professor Marvin Lazerson and his co-author W. Norton Grubb challenge the widespread view that schools can do everything. They especially target the most commonly held notions about work and school including everything from the ability of schools at every level to prepare workers to the need for a more highly educated workforce and find a system based more on faith than evidence.
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PHILADELPHIA-- Rebecca Bushnell, dean of University of Pennsylvania's College of Arts and Sciences and a distinguished scholar of English literature, will become the next dean of Penn's School of Arts and Sciences effective Jan. 1. She will also hold the title of Thomas S. Gates Jr. Professor.
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WHO:Children who attend afternoon and weekend sessions at one of the 26 Police Athletic League Centers throughout Philadelphia will be special guests of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology tonight, which will open its doors to the children and their chaperones for this free evening, co-sponsored by the PAL Center of the Division of Public Safety at Penn.WHAT: Two hours of exploration among the ancient artifacts and displays at the Penn Museum.