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Kick your nicotine addiction once and for all
Want to add 5 to 20 minutes to your life? Put that cancer stick down. Want to double your chances of living past 65? Stop smoking. Increase your chance of fertility? Stop smoking. Decrease your risk for coronary heart disease? Stop smoking. Stroke? Stillbirth? Preterm delivery? Low birth weight? Sudden infant death syndrome? Stop smoking, stop smoking, stop smoking, stop smoking.
Eye on the future: Starting up
WHAT: The Center for Technology Transfer (CTT), at 3160 Chestnut St., Suite 200, led by Executive Director Michael J. Cleare and Deputy Executive Director John Swartley.
40 years of Du Bois
Ernest Owens and Farrah Alkhaleel, both juniors in the College, have lived in Du Bois College House since their freshman year.
Student Spotlight with Catherine Kipsang
SOCIAL NETWORKING POLITICIANS: A student from Kenya, Catherine Kipsang, 22, is the co-founder of Givenumbers.com, a social platform launched in June that provides vital information about Kenyan politicians to the Kenyan public.
The Shoah, remembered
The Shoah Foundation has its roots in Poland, once home to the largest Jewish community in Europe. Of the 3.3 million Jews who lived there before the Nazi invasion in 1939, 85 percent (more than 4 out of 5) were murdered during the Holocaust.
Student Spotlight with Russell Abdo
ELECTION TIME IS COMING: Russell Abdo, 20, is the events chair and treasurer of Penn Leads the Vote, a non-partisan, student-led campus voter mobilization group sponsored by the Robert A.
Penn Museum visitors ‘see’ history as part of tours for the visually impaired
Close your eyes. Tighter, so you see only black. Now, picture Ancient Egypt. None of us was there, but most of us can visualize the ancient civilization of northeastern Africa because we’ve seen photographs and drawings of its great pyramids, pharaohs, temples, monuments, earthenware, tombs, and hieroglyphics.
What does a ‘free press’ in Iran really mean?
Freedom of the press is not a constitutional right usually associated with the Islamic Republic of Iran. But “freedom of expression” for publications and the press is codified in Chapter 3, Article 24 of the Iranian Constitution, with the caveat, “except when it is detrimental to the fundamental principles of Islam or the rights of the public.”