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Staff Q&A with William Alexander
On his way to becoming a choral music teacher, William Alexander took a detour down guidance counselor road to work with middle school students, and ended up in the land of psychology. “I think always working with young people was the central theme,” he says about his career, “so I navigated my interests from teaching to psychotherapy and psychology.”
Q&A with Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
Born in Tehran, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, the Robert I. Williams Term Professor of History in the School of Arts & Sciences, spent the first part of her life in Iran during the reign of the shah, and was an eyewitness as events unfolded during the 1979 Iranian Revolution that removed the shah from power and gave rise to the Ayatollah Khomeini.
No-loan policy
LOAN-FREE AID: Initiated by President Amy Gutmann in 2008, Penn’s no-loan policy enables all dependent undergraduate students eligible for financial aid to receive loan-free aid packages, regardless of family income level.
Student Spotlight with Rosemary Santos
BIG LIGHTS WILL INSPIRE YOU: A New Yorker, senior Rosemary Santos, 21, is the artistic director of Onda Latina, Penn’s premier Latin dance troupe.
Q&A with Anita Allen
Swirling all around Anita Allen, a child of the ‘60s, were the country’s most divisive social issues: racial conflict and African Americans’ demand for civil and human rights, the feminist movement and women’s fight for gender equality, a War on Poverty, and a deadly and controversial war in Vietnam.
Penn researchers determine three dinosaur species are actually one
Psittacosaurus (sih-TACK-oh-sore-us) is a genus of short, beak-faced dinosaurs that lived in Asia 120-125 million years ago, roaming China, Mongolia, Siberia, and possibly Thailand. The plant-eaters lived for about 10 million years in an era after Stegosaurus and before Tyrannosaurus rex, at a time when most dinosaurs were small.
Moving in with Penn freshman Hannah Cutler
[flickr]72157635170115589[/flickr] Photos by Scott Spitzer The interdisciplinary spirit of the School of Engineering and Applied Science was the Cupid that caused freshman Hannah Cutler to fall in love with Penn.
Penn helps ease SEPTA fare increases with commuter discounts
On July 1, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, or SEPTA, increased the prices of its fares and passes, and revised its Regional Rail zones. Cash fare for most city buses, subways, and trolleys increased from $2 to $2.25 (exact fare required; SEPTA operators do not give change), and the price for tokens rose from $1.55 to $1.80.
Pottruck Center upgrades add state-of-the-art technology, equipment
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Nursing study finds that breakfast, indeed, is the most important meal
There’s an old saying that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Parents routinely implore their children to eat something in the morning so that they are energized, focused, and alert for school.