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Has Penn been a presidential hot spot?
Dear Benny,After watching all the hoopla surrounding John Kerry’s visit on Sept. 17, I couldn’t help but wonder: How many presidents—or presidents-to-be—have visited Penn over the years? — Eyes On The Election Dear Dear Wannabe Presidential Historian,As it turns out, Penn has welcomed more than its share of presidents—a total of 18, to be exact—though not always during their time in the White House.
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If you see more, you’re likely to eat more
The health-conscious know that they’re likely to wreak havoc on their hips if they eat too much at Thanksgiving dinner or dip too heartily into gigantic supermarket dispensers of candy. But what if they sampled just a little bit of each potato dish or just a couple pieces of each gummy color?
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Staff Q&A: Bob Higgins
STAFF Q&A/Getting trauma victims to Penn’s hospitals is all in a day’s work for the man who run’s UPHS’s helicopter flight team.
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Bookquick/“Everyday Politics: Reconnecting Citizens and Public Life”
Increasingly a spectator sport, electoral politics has become bitterly polarized by professional consultants and lobbyists, and has been boiled down to the distributive mantra of “who gets what.” In “Everyday Politics,” Harry Boyte transcends partisan politics to offer an alternative. He demonstrates how community rooted activities reconnect citizens to engaged public life, not just on election day, but throughout the year.
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Looking inside terror cells
They’re college educated people from upper middle-class homes, many of whom are married with children. They don’t have criminal records and they suffer a less-than-average rate of mental illness. They’re also terrorists. “ Most of what we know about terrorism is wrong,” said forensic psychiatrist Marc Sageman, speaking at the Penn Bookstore on Sept. 23. “[Terrorists] are the elite of their country.”
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Penn’s Center for Technology Transfer Presents Penn Innovations to the Private Equity Community
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania Center for Technology Transfer will host its Annual Open House on Oct. 7 at its office on the Penn campus. CTT plays a key role in moving the results driven by Penn's enormous research capacity to the marketplace. The open house will offer venture capitalists, regional managers and entrepreneurs, law firms, inventors and the technology community access not only to Penn innovations but to the university scientists and commercialization experts as well.
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Penn Law School Hosts Symposium About Music File Sharing
Penn Law School Hosts Symposium About Music File SharingWHO:Gideon Parchomovsky, University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolPolk Wagner, University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolJoel Waldfogel, Wharton School, University of PennsylvaniaFelix Olberholtzer, Harvard Business School Alejandro Zentner, University of ChicagoWHAT:Symposium: "Does File Sharing Hurt Record Sales? An Economic Inquiry"WHEN:Friday, Oct. 8, 20042-5 p.m.WHERE:University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolSilverman Hall, Room 240A
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Penn Alexander School Wins National Design Award
PHILADELPHIA -- The Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander University of Pennsylvania Partnership School has been recognized by KnowledgeWorks Foundation as one of just 14 schools in the nation that best exemplifies a growing national trend to build schools as centers of community.
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Former Merck CEO to Speak at Penn's Kelly Writers House About New Book "Medicine, Science, and Merck"
WHO:Roy Vagelos, retired CEO of Merck and former chairman of Penn Board of Trustees.WHAT:Vagelos will be talking about his new book "Medicine, Science, and Merck."WHEN:6 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 7WHERE:Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust WalkIn his memoir, Vagelos has two stories to tell: one about the growth and development of medical science in business and the other about the dream of the ethnic American realized, and these stories are social, national and intellectual rather than merely personal in nature.
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Penn Chemist Alan G. MacDiarmid Honored with China's Friendship Award
PHILADELPHIA -- University of Pennsylvania Professor and Nobel Laureate Alan G. MacDiarmid received the Friendship Award today from Chinese Vice-Premier Hui Liangyu at a ceremony in Beijing. This year, the annual Friendship Award was conferred on 84 foreign experts for their outstanding contributions to China's economic and social development. MacDiarmid was honored for his work as chairman of the Alan G. MacDiarmid Institute at Jilin University in ChangChun, China, and professor in Jilin University Chemistry Department.