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Fun for all at International Children’s Festival
Round up the family and enjoy music, theater, dance, arts, crafts, and more at the 29th annual Philadelphia International Children’s Festival, which runs through Saturday, May 4, at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.
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Creating Canopy giving away trees to city residents
WHAT: For the third year, the University is partnering with the City of Philadelphia’s Parks and Recreation Department to give away free trees through the Creating Canopy program. Penn and UPHS faculty and staff who pre-register by Friday, May 10, can receive a free tree. Only Penn and UPHS employees who own a home in Philadelphia are eligible for the giveaway.
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In Lacrosse, Six Women, Six Men Earn All Ivy Honors
Penn’s women’s and men’s lacrosse teams each had six players named to the All-Ivy teams this season. Shannon Mangini, a junior from Garden City, N.Y., was named unanimous first-team All-Ivy. This marks her first All-Ivy selection. Mangini was also selected as the first-ever Ivy League Midfielder of the Year, in a vote by the League’s coaches.
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Penn researchers study effectiveness of anti-smoking ads
What makes people change the way they behave? It’s a question that cuts to the core of human nature, and one that has been approached by researchers from many different fields.
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Penn profs file brief in support of e-reserves
The academic community is closely watching a court case involving Georgia State University’s e-reserves. The outcome of the case, now on appeal, could affect how professors assign published works in courses and how students engage in critical classroom discussions about those works. Examples of e-reserves include Blackboard and Canvas.
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Penn Vet Working Dog Center Collaborating on Ovarian Cancer Detection Study
In a unique, interdisciplinary collaboration, the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine’s Working Dog Center, The School of Arts and Science's Department of Physics and Astronomy, Penn Medicine’s Division of Gynecologic Oncology and the Monell Chemical Senses Center have joined together to study ovarian cancer detection by dogs and e-sensors.
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A Mystery Unravels in the Penn Museum
A select group of local young authors is looking to unlock a mystery. Following in the footsteps of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who penned Sherlock Holmes, or Agatha Christie, who wrote Murder on the Orient Express, a small group of up-and-coming mystery writers headed to the Penn Museum in April to research a historic whodunit: “The Mystery of the 26 Helmets.”
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Penn, CHOP Researchers Find Less-Used Regimen Is More Effective for HIV-Infected Children
Researchers from The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Perelman School of Medicine at The University of Pennsylvania, along with colleagues at the Botswana-Baylor Children's Clinical Centre of Excellence, conducted the first large-scale comparison of first-line treatments for HIV-positive children, finding that initial treatment with efavirenz was more effective than nevirapine in suppressing the virus in children ages 3 to 16.
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Penn Research Helps to Show How Turbulence Can Occur Without Inertia
Anyone who has flown in an airplane knows about turbulence, or when the flow of a fluid — in this case, the flow of air over the wings — becomes chaotic and unstable. For more than a century, the field of fluid mechanics has posited that turbulence scales with inertia, and so massive things, like planes, have an easier time causing it.Now, research led by engineers at the University of Pennsylvania has shown that this transition to turbulence can occur without inertia at all.
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Penn Relays 2013
Every April at Franklin Field on the University of Pennsylvania campus, the crowds can roar louder than fighter planes. That was the case when Chantilly, Va., native Sean McGort made history on Friday, setting a new Penn Relays record in the high school boys’ mile.