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Penn Performers Celebrate Culture Through South Asian Dancing With a Twist
Penn Dhamaka’s energetic, arm-pumping, feet-shuffling, body-twisting dance routines are inspired by traditional South Asian dance, but the all-male troupe’s flair is all their own.The University of Pennsylvania student performance group fuses a variety of dance styles in their sequences. In addition to classic South Asian dance, their moves are a mix of Bollywood, contemporary American dance, hip-hop and stepping.
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Penn Celebrates ‘Reinvigorated’ ARCH, A New Hub For Student Life
On Thursday, Feb. 6, the Penn community gathered to celebrate the re-opening of the ARCH, Penn’s Arts, Research, and Culture House. The open house marked the completion of a $24.5 million renovation transforming the historic late-Gothic Revival building at 3600 Locust Walk into what President Amy Gutmann called a “welcoming and central hub for all students to meet and share ideas” and a “beacon of undergraduate cultural and research life.”
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Penn Museum researcher finds ancient Scandinavian ‘grog’
When a desire for an alcoholic beverage strikes, sometimes the best strategy is to use what you have to make your own.
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LEGO robotics tournament returns to Penn
On Feb. 1, around 400 middle school students assembled on Penn’s campus to test their mettle as part of an international robotics tournament. Organized through FIRST LEGO League (FLL), the competition is aimed at getting students interested in science, technology, engineering, and math.
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Penn Medicine Public Art Initiative Aims to Draw Attention to AEDs
If you saw someone collapse and lose consciousness, you would likely call 911, and if they weren’t breathing and didn’t have a pulse, you might also know to start CPR while you waited for help to arrive. But would you know where to look for an automated external defibrillator (AED)? The answer to this public health challenge may soon be “yes” thanks to a new design initiative sponsored by an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Penn Medicine and the University of Pennsylvania.
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Beatlemania comes to Penn
On Feb. 9, 1964, more than 73 million viewers tuned in to “The Ed Sullivan Show” and watched a performance by a then-unheard of pop music group from Liverpool, England, called The Beatles. The group’s mesmerizing performance marked the arrival of Beatlemania in North America, triggering countless musical and cultural trends over the band’s seven-year run. Aside from their signature rock ‘n’ roll sound and instantly recognizable hairstyles, The Beatles have also made a lesser-known mark on another medium: publishing.
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Science, Lightbulb cafés return for spring semester
The 2014 slate of spring semester Penn Science Café and Penn Lightbulb Café lectures includes conversations about friendly-looking rodents, killer robots, “green” vaccines, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Penn supports locally produced treats by students and alumni
In line with the University’s commitment to sustainability and local engagement, much of the food sold at campus cafes is locally produced, including some items created by Penn students and recent alumni.
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Penn Researchers ‘Design for Failure’ With Model Material
When deciding what materials to use in building something, determining how those materials respond to stress and strain is often the first task. A material’s macroscopic, or bulk, properties in this area — whether it can spring back into shape, for example — is generally the product of what is happening on a microscopic scale. When stress causes a material’s constituent molecules to rearrange in a way such that they can't go back to their original positions, it is known as “plastic deformation.”
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A Message to the Penn Community Addressing Student Mental Health Issues
FromAmy Gutmann, PresidentVincent Price, ProvostCraig Carnaroli, Executive Vice PresidentNothing is of more paramount concern at Penn than the health, safety and well-being of our students. As a follow-up to our recent message to the Penn community regarding student mental health, we are writing to inform you of recent steps that we have taken to support the mental health of our students, and outline additional steps that will be occurring to ensure that we are doing everything possible to reach and assist students in distress.