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Online Courses Enable Penn Alumni to Continue Learning
As students at the University of Pennsylvania, they exercised their love of learning, and now, as Penn alumni, thanks to online courses, they can add to their knowledge base or explore subject matter they either couldn’t or didn’t when on campus.
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Paul Mitchell: At Penn, Four Years of Looking at the Past
Paul Mitchell’s deep interest in anthropology and in exploring human evolution and variation was sparked by his first course in the fall of 2009 during his freshman year at the University of Pennsylvania. “I thought it was the most interesting and intellectually stimulating thing I’ve ever seen,” he says.
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The Penn Science Café and Penn Lightbulb Café Return
PHILADELPHIA-- The Penn Science Café and the Penn Lightbulb Café are back, bringing the University of Pennsylvania’s top scholars out on the town to share their research.
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Where can I find books the Libraries don’t have?
Dear Benny,I’m an avid reader who also likes to do research on a variety of topics, but there are some books that just aren’t available in the Libraries’ massive collection. How can I access books that Penn Libraries doesn’t have?—Always Learning Dear Always Learning,
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Staff Q&A with Amy Sadao
Amy Sadao doesn’t mind if crowds at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) are a little bit raucous. And she definitely doesn’t mind if people want to spend a quiet contemplative afternoon in the galleries. In her mind, the ICA is big and rich enough for both experiences.
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Best feet forward
Students who are part of Penn Nursing’s Healthy in Philadelphia initiative recently collected more than 800 new socks that were distributed to area nursing home residents and the Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission that serves the homeless and hungry. At the mission, foot baths, foot health assessments, as well as the socks, were provided to homeless men, who on average walk about three miles a day in all kinds of weather.
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Bigger commuter discounts
Penn commuters who use mass transit were already saving a bit more because of the recently approved American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012. Now, an amended section of the Act has increased the maximum monthly excludable amount for employer-provided transportation and transit-pass benefits. The amendment is effective retroactively, beginning on Jan. 1, 2012, and extending through Dec. 31, 2013.
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Q&A with Maureen Rush
As Penn’s top cop, Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush oversees six departments—including the Penn Police, Fire & Emergency Services, and Special Services—and a staff of 176 men and women, sworn and civilian, devoted to keeping the University and surrounding communities free from harm.
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Penn Researchers Develop Protein ‘Passport’ That Helps Nanoparticles Get Past Immune System
The body’s immune system exists to identify and destroy foreign objects, whether they are bacteria, viruses, flecks of dirt or splinters. Unfortunately, nanoparticles designed to deliver drugs, and implanted devices like pacemakers or artificial joints, are just as foreign and subject to the same response.
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Penn Vet’s Nicola Mason and Penn Medicine and Penn Nursing’s Yvonne Paterson Win One Health Award
PHILADELPHIA — Nicola Mason and Yvonne Paterson have been named this year’s recipients of the University of Pennsylvania One Health Award.