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Africana Studies: A new department at Penn
Dear Benny,I was thrilled when I recently heard that Penn’s Center for Africana Studies was upgraded to a department. As a lover of all things Africana, this is wonderful news! The University should be commended. I was wondering what this means for Africana Studies at Penn?
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For the Record: Ivy stones
Ivy stones commemorate each Penn undergraduate class since 1873, the first year the University moved from its original Center City campus to West Philadelphia. On Ivy Day, celebrated a few days before Commencement, members of the senior class place a marble slab, adorned with a symbolic image (usually of ivy) and the class’ graduation year, someplace on campus.
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Online education advisor
Edward B. Rock has been named senior advisor to the University president and provost, and director of open course initiatives at Penn. The announcement was made earlier this month by Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price.
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Knowledge for free
Wharton Digital Press is offering readers a free e-book through Sept. 17. The book, “Why Good People Can’t Get Jobs: The Skills Gap and What Companies Can Do About It,” is the work of Wharton management professor Peter Cappelli.
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Penn professor uses ‘tower-power’ to preserve vaccines
Late one night in 2010, Harvey Rubin received an email from his neighbor, the actor David Morse, perhaps best known for his work in the films “The Negotiator,” “The Green Mile” and “16 Blocks.” Morse was watching television coverage of the Haitian earthquake, and wondered why his friend, Academy Award-winning actor Sean Penn, was attending to a child dying of diphtheria. Isn’t there a vaccine?
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Penn becomes first Ivy to partner with KIPP schools
Chevon Boone’s story is the sort of against-all-odds tale they make TV movies about. She grew up in the tiny rural town of Garysburg, North Carolina, about a six-hour drive from Penn and the Ivy League. Yet for Boone and other underserved kids in Garysburg, that stretch of highway may as well have been an ocean. Boone has successfully made the journey, overcoming many obstacles to become a student at Penn. Today, she’s on pace to graduate in May with a health and societies degree and a concentration in public health.
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Staff Q&A with Dennis Pierattini
Above classrooms, galleries, and professors’ offices on the fourth floor of Meyerson Hall sits a room filled with table saws, sanders, hand tools, metal bandsaws, a 3-D printer, and laser cutter. Maybe it’s not the typical classroom for many Penn students, but for those enrolled at PennDesign, the Fabrication Lab is where students put lessons from the classroom into practice.
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Christopher Phillips Brings His Socrates Cafés and Constitution Cafés to University of Pennsylvania
What a difference a year makes.
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What does a ‘free press’ in Iran really mean?
Freedom of the press is not a constitutional right usually associated with the Islamic Republic of Iran. But “freedom of expression” for publications and the press is codified in Chapter 3, Article 24 of the Iranian Constitution, with the caveat, “except when it is detrimental to the fundamental principles of Islam or the rights of the public.” Iran is also a signatory to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which emphasizes that freedom of expression—including the right to freely search, receive, and share information—is universal.
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Top 20 at TED
Having garnered more than 3.5 million viewers, a TED talk featuring Penn Engineering professor Vijay Kumar on the making of flying autonomous robots by Penn’s General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Lab, has become one of the most watched TED videos to date.