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Bilsky to retire as athletic director
President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price announced that Director of Athletics Steve Bilsky will retire on June 30. Bilsky has made an indelible impact on the University across six decades, since his student days as a captain of a historic men’s basketball team through his nearly 20 years of distinguished leadership of Penn Athletics.
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Five Penn faculty named AAAS Fellows
Five faculty members from Penn have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They areamong 388 members of AAAS awarded the distinction this year for “their efforts toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished.”
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Crossing the blood-brain barrier to treat Alzheimer’s
Drugs intended to break apart the tangled plaques that cloud the brains of Alzheimer’s patients confront a biological obstacle: the blood-brain barrier. Tightly packed cells along this border between the brain and the bloodstream allow only small molecules to cross, effectively protecting the brain against pathogens, but stifling many treatment strategies.
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For the Record: Penn’s era of campus expansion
When Penn moved from Center City to West Philadelphia in 1872, College Hall, the University’s first building, housed classrooms, the library, labs, and faculty offices. Within a few years, the campus added Medical Hall, now Claudia Cohen Hall, and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania building. By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Penn acquired other buildings to expand the campus, and Franklin Field and the Law School were constructed.
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Penn students promote linguistic and cultural diversity
Ariel Koren, a junior in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, fell in love with the Spanish language and Latin American culture when she was in high school in Jacksonville, Fla. But for her sister, who has learning disabilities, lessons about another language and culture weren’t quite as accessible.
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Student Spotlight with Jasmine Cole
NEW JERSEYAN: A freshman from Montclair, N.J., Jasmine Cole, 18, is a standout player on the Penn field hockey team. The 2013 Quakers finished second in the Ivy League behind Princeton, and completed their season with a 13-4 record, the most overall wins since 2004 and one victory shy of the school mark.
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Penn employees get a holiday break? Please, tell me more
Dear Benny:I’m trying to plan ahead for the holidays. The Human Resources website lists Christmas Day and New Year’s Day as holidays observed by the Penn, but I was told the University is also closed between the two holidays. What should I know about winter break this year?—Decking the halls
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‘Adopt a Family’ during the holidays
During the holidays in December, departments from across the University are encouraged to “adopt” a deserving family. The adoption is usually done in lieu of departmental gift exchanges. The assigned family is treated to presents and sometimes holiday dinner. Families participate in the program on a one-time basis and are assigned to departments based on request. Departments choose the size of the family they would like to adopt and can also request the ages of the children they are interested in adopting.
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Penn Researcher Traces the History of the American Urban Squirrel
Until recently, Etienne Benson, an assistant professor in the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of History and Sociology of Science, has trained his academic eye on the history of conservation of large, charismatic wildlife, such as tigers, grizzly bears and orcas. With his latest publication, however, he consciously chose to investigate a creature that may be considered less exotic, and is certainly smaller.
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Inaugural AppItUP Challenge nets six new prototypes
Penn’s Center for Technology Transfer and its company-formation program, UPstart, launched an ambitious contest in September, aimed to gather the best mobile application ideas from throughout the University community. By partnering with local software development companies that promised to take the top five submissions into the prototype stage, the AppItUP Challenge was able to gather 185 ideas from 11 of Penn’s 12 schools.