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Campus & Community
Penn Rec/HR forum answers fitness questions
Is it better to exercise in the morning or in the afternoon? Does walking two miles burn the same number of calories as running two miles? What’s the best mix of cardio and strength training for a person your age?
Penn Parking rolls out new initiatives and renames facilities
Penn Parking Services is rolling out a few new programs this spring for faculty and staff.
Help Morris Arboretum name its new swans
Swan keeper Kate Deregibus can tell the Morris Arboretum’s new mute swans apart by their personalities: one, she says, is “docile” and the other…not so much.
How Novel: Penn LPS Teacher Writes for Tweens, Teens and Young Adults
“Perfect features, the right shoes, luminescent lip gloss and the instincts of barracudas” is how Melissa Jensen describes a group of high school freshmen in The Fine Art of Truth or Dare, her most recent novel.
Penn Joins MIT-led Project on ‘Printable Robots’
PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University are taking part in an ambitious new project, led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to reinvent how robots are designed and produced.
Penn Bioethicist Jonathan Moreno Appointed to UNESCO International Bioethics Committee
PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania’s Jonathan Moreno has been invited to join the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s
Penn Biologists Identify a Key Enzyme Involved in Protecting Nerves From Degeneration
PHILADELPHIA –- A new animal model of nerve injury has brought to light a critical role of an enzyme called Nmnat in nerve fiber maintenance and neuroprotection.
Penn profs star in Science Festival’s ‘Superheroes’
Faster than the speed of light. Stronger than a sheet of graphene. It’s the Philadelphia Science Festival, back for a second year.
Arthur Ross Gallery hosts Capoeira demo, samba workshop
Formerly home to the largest concentration of African slaves in the Americas and the longest lasting slave system in the Western Hemisphere, Brazil has a rich artistic tradition. But the visual culture of African-descended people living in Brazil has not been a widely exhibited segment of Latin American art.
Join fight against cancer at Penn Relay For Life
Students, faculty, staff, and members of the community can pull an all-nighter on Saturday, March 31, and join the fight against cancer at the annual Penn Relay For Life at Franklin Field.
In the News
Philadelphia Inquirer
What’s it like to come home from prison? Reentry simulations let people experience it firsthand
With support from the STAR program, Aslam Ashari was able to enroll in an entrepreneurship course at Penn after his release from prison.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
A collector donated 75,000 comic books to Penn Libraries, valued at more than $500,000
Alumnus Gary Prebula and his wife, Dawn, have donated a $500,000 collection of more than 75,000 comic books and graphic novels to Penn Libraries, featuring remarks from Sean Quimly of the Kislak Center and Jean-Christophe Cloutier of the School of Arts & Sciences.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
He started college in prison. Now, he is Rutgers-Camden’s first Truman scholar
Tej Patel, a third-year in the Wharton School and College of Arts and Sciences from Billeria, Massachusetts, was one of 60 college students nationwide chosen to be a Truman Scholar.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
How did a white woman come to write the newest definitive text on Philadelphia’s Black history?
Penn alum Amy Jane Cohen is profiled for her new book “Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape,” which examines Black history through the lens of events, institutions, and individuals across the city. The book includes a reflection from Penn chaplain Charles Howard.
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WHYY (Philadelphia)
Homeward bound: When a Penn Medicine nurse was diagnosed with uterine cancer, she turned to the service dogs she helped to train
A profile highlights Maria Wright of Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, from her volunteer work connecting people with service dogs to her cancer diagnosis and her own journey applying for a service dog.
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