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Penn’s GCP Seeking Green Fund Grant Applications; Deadline Is Oct. 31
PHILADELPHIA –- The fall 2012 application period is now open for Green Fund grant seekers at the University of Pennsylvania. Penn’s Green Campus Partnership is accepting applications through Oct. 31 for a seventh round of grants to support innovative green ideas from students, faculty and staff.
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Penn’s Division of Public Safety Hosts Screening and Discussion of Film ‘9 Fires’
PHILADELPHIA -- In early 2012, a series of nine campus-related fires occurred across the country. The University of Pennsylvania’s Division of Public Safety is hosting a screening and discussion of “9 Fires,” a short documentary about nine campus-related fires that occurred earlier this year across the country. The event will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 18, in the Terrace Room of Claudia Cohen Hall.
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Penn Bridges Disparities Through Diversity and Cultural Competence in the Midst of Health-care Reform
Health-care reform and cultural competence in health-care delivery are hot topics. Research has shown that cultural competence is a key strategy for bridging health and health-care disparities. Penn Presbyterian Medical Center will host its annual conference on Friday, Oct. 26, from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Room 106 of the Philadelphia Heart Institute, 51 N. 39th St.
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Mission Possible: Penn’s Troops Lecture Program Works With Local Soldiers on Archaeological Conservation
War is not good for historical and archaeological preservation, and a University of Pennsylvania professor is working with the Army, Marine Corps and Air Force to do something about it.
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Institute of Medicine Elects Six New Members From Penn
PHILADELPHIA — Six professors from the University of Pennsylvania, representing four schools, have been elected members of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), one of the nation's highest honors in biomedicine.The newly elected members raise IOM's total active membership to 1,732 and the number of foreign associates to 112. With an additional 84 members holding emeritus status, IOM's total membership is 1,928.
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Enrique G. Mendoza Appointed Presidential Term Professor at Penn
PHILADELPHIA -- Enrique G. Mendoza, a scholar of international macroeconomics, has been named a Presidential Term Professor of Economics in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, effective Jan. 1. The announcement was made today by Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price.
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Penn Students Spend A Summer With Owl Monkeys — and Learn More Than Primatology
It’s almost as far away from Philadelphia urban life as one can imagine. Or, to be precise, it’s a 14-hour plane ride followed by a 16-hour bus ride capped by a 40-minute ride in a truck away from the University of Pennsylvania campus.
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Touch Judaic History at Penn’s Herbert D. Katz Center
At the University of Pennsylvania’s Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, you can touch some of the oldest tomes in the history of Judaism, and you don’t have to wear white gloves, de rigueur for patrons at some rare-book libraries.
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Media, the ‘Obama Effect,’ and racial prejudice
The 2008 election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States was a revolutionary moment in American history. Two hundred and twenty-one years after the U.S. Constitution declared African Americans only three-fifths of a person, and 151 years after the U.S. Supreme Court deemed blacks “beings of an inferior order,” (Dred Scott v. Sanford) the United States elected its first African-American president in a landslide.
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For the Record: Big 5 Basketball
Penn played a significant role in the founding of the Big 5 Basketball series, created in 1955 to showcase men’s college basketball talent in the Philadelphia region. Teams from Penn, Temple, Saint Joseph’s, La Salle, and Villanova competed in the round-robin series, taking turns to play one another a set number of times during each basketball season.