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Penn Dental Medicine Students Present 6th Annual Philadelphia Oral Cancer Walk & 5K
WHO: Penn Dental Medicine WHAT: 6th Annual Philadelphia Oral Cancer Walk & 5K
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Penn’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy Releases Childhood Obesity Guide
In the last 30 years, childhood obesity has more than doubled, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in adolescents, it has quadrupled. By 2012, more than one-third of children and adolescents were overweight or obese.
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Penn Students Explore Civil Rights Movement Sites
A unique spring break trip for some University of Pennsylvania students could turn a vacation into a vocation.Students from the Greenfield Intercultural Center’s Alliance and Understanding Program at Penn traveled to four southern cities where some of the most significant civil rights movement events occurred.
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Morris Arboretum offers a full slate of spring classes
Situated in the northwest part of the city, Penn’s Morris Arboretum has been a gracious public garden and rich resource for amateur and professional botanists since 1933. In addition to playing a critical role as the official arboretum of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Arboretum offers more than 100 classes, tours, talks, and lectures throughout the year.
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Penn scientists teach computer programs how to teach programming
While the computers of today dwarf their predecessors when it comes to power and speed, the programming process hasn’t fundamentally changed in decades. It’s still a tedious practice of specifying step-by-step instructions, with an equally large effort devoted to ensuring those instructions produce the desired results. In an effort to change programming into a more intuitive process, Penn computer scientists and their colleagues are redefining what learning to program means.
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HR lauds exemplary staff with 2014 Models of Excellence Awards
Since 1999, the Division of Human Resources (HR) has honored more than 600 notable staff members who exhibit a deep commitment to Penn through its Models of Excellence program.
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Penn Libraries looking for volunteer librarians at Lea School
One of the many casualties of the ongoing financial crisis facing the School District of Philadelphia has been the layoff of librarians and the closure of libraries in many schools. Central and Masterman high schools—two of the best in the city and state—had to close their libraries because they lacked funding for a librarian before an anonymous person gave a donation to reopen them. Other district schools have not been so lucky.
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Penn Dental study explains toddler tooth woes
As soon as an infant cuts that first tooth, proper dental hygiene is a must. Babies who are put to bed with their bottles and toddlers who tote around sippy cups full of sugary juice all day are at risk of developing a condition called early childhood caries. This bacterial infection, often passed to young children from a caregiver with untreated dental disease, causes aggressive and painful tooth decay. Treatment can require surgery.
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Pam Grossman Named Dean of the Penn Graduate School of Education
Pam Grossman has been named dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, effective Jan. 1, 2015. The announcement was made today by Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price.
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Penn Dental Medicine-NIH Team Reverses Bone Loss in Immune Disorder
Patients with leukocyte adhesion deficiency, or LAD, suffer from frequent bacterial infections, including the severe gum disease known as periodontitis. These patients often lose their teeth early in life. New research by University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine researchers, teaming with investigators from the National Institutes of Health, has demonstrated a method of reversing this bone loss and inflammation.