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Penn Preview Days looking for staff volunteers
Penn staff members who don’t often get a chance to interact with students and parents have an opportunity to introduce prospective students to the University by volunteering at Penn Preview Days. Each April, admitted students and their families visit campus to get a taste of Penn. Throughout the day-long Penn Preview visit, families meet current students, as well as faculty and academic advisors.
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Penn Acquires the Archives of the Vermont Marble Company
The archives of the marble company that provided material for the Lincoln Memorial, the National Gallery of Art, the United Nations and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier has been acquired by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries and the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. The acquisition includes the Vermont Marble Company’s business records and a stone sample collection, documenting the firm’s activities from its beginning in 1869 as the Sutherland Falls Marble Company to its final years in the 1970s.
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Stem cell ‘grip’ helps determine its fate
The field of regenerative medicine holds great promise, propelled by a growing understanding of how stem cells differentiate themselves into many of the body’s different cell types. But clinical applications in the field have been slow to materialize, partially owing to difficulties in replicating the conditions these cells naturally experience.
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SP2 hosts health fair, PAWS supply drive
The Community Teamworks program brings together alumni, faculty, students, and staff at the School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) for days of service and volunteer projects around the city. On Saturday, April 6, Community Teamworks and the Sayre Health Center are co-sponsoring the 2nd Annual Community Health Fair, held in the Sayre Health Center parking lot, 59th and Locust streets.
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Penn Social Work Student Learns Lessons of Hard Work and Justice for Immigrants
It began at age 5, long before she came to the University of Pennsylvania. During school breaks, while other students vacationed or went to camp, Jennifer Gutierrez was working. At first, she worked as an interpreter for her mother who did not speak English.
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Penn’s Arthur Ross Gallery Presents La Tauromaquia: Carnicero, Goya and Picasso
In celebration of the Arthur Ross Gallery’s 30th Anniversary, La Tauromaquia: Carnicero, Goya, and Picasso presents 70 master prints collected by the Arthur Ross Foundation.
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Global Economic Crisis Topic of Peter Orszag Talk at Penn March 28
WHO: Peter Orszag Citigroup vice chairman of corporate and investment banking and former director of the White House Office of Budget and Management
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Sugar Triggers Plants to Mature to Adulthood, Penn Biologists Find
Like animals, plants go through several stages of development before they reach maturity. It has long been thought that some of the transitions between these stages are triggered by changes in the nutritional status of the plant.
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Penn Engineers Enable ‘Bulk’ Silicon to Emit Visible Light for the First Time
Electronic computing speeds are brushing up against limits imposed by the laws of physics. Photonic computing, where photons replace comparatively slow electrons in representing information, could surpass those limitations, but the components of such computers require semiconductors that can emit light.
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Penn Linguistics Researchers Document Philadelphia’s Shift to a Northern Accent
A new study by University of Pennsylvania linguists shows that the Philadelphia accent has changed in the last century. The traditional Southern inflections associated with Philadelphia native-born speakers are increasingly being displaced by Northern influences.