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At ‘Taste of Penn,’ Students Can Rate Bon Appetit Chefs’ Best Recipes Made With Local Ingredients
WHAT: The Taste of Penn will offer University of Pennsylvania students the opportunity to sample and rate a variety of healthy dishes made with locally sourced ingredients from 12 area vendors.
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Penn to offer online classes via Coursera
The internet has changed the way we read the news, connect with friends, and buy new products. Now, web-based courses are pioneering a new model for higher learning, one that could potentially give everyone in the world access to a top-level educational experience.
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Public Safety honors campus heroes, lifesavers
The ceremonial honor guard marches in to the unmistakable chorus of bagpipes. The celebration showcases the hard work and dedication of Penn’s law enforcement and public safety professionals. On Thursday, April 19, the Division of Public Safety (DPS) is recognizing nearly 50 honorees at its biannual Commendation Ceremony, held at the Biomedical Research Building in the Perelman School of Medicine.
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Penn takes its mark for the 118th Penn Relays
On Thursday, April 26, thousands of finely tuned athletes clad in colorful warm-ups will descend upon Penn’s campus. They’ve trained for months, maybe years, to run fast, jump high, and throw far, and at the 118th Penn Relay Carnival they will put their talents to the test. The Relays run from April 26-28 at Franklin Field, and the Penn community is invited to watch the competition.
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Penn welcomes John Barth as Writers House Fellow
There’s a veritable John Barth read-a-thon underway at Kelly Writers House. Students are studying the work of the renowned author as part of a Writers House Fellows Seminar course taught by Writers House Faculty Director Al Filreis.
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Texas Higher Education Must Confront Hard Choices, Penn GSE Study Finds
PHILADELPHIA — Texas will be forced to put the state’s economic growth at stake by closing the doors to college opportunity for thousands of young people, many of them Latino, unless leaders prioritize their goals for higher education and develop a plan to pay for them, according to a new report released by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Higher Education Research.
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Penn to Offer Online Classes via Coursera
PHILADELPHIA –- The University of Pennsylvania will join Princeton University, the University of Michigan, the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University in partnering with Coursera, an online education platform, to make Web-based courses available free and to improve teaching on campuses.
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Penn Law Students Assist Philadelphia Mobile Food Vendors
With help from some University of Pennsylvania Law School students, Philadelphia food vendors are now organized formally as an association, bringing together vendors from across the city to support each other and to share resources. Through the Law School’s Entrepreneurship Clinic, a team of students provided free legal assistance to vendors to form the Philadelphia Mobile Food Association.
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Penn IUR, Partners Launch Innovative Electricity Price Awareness Campaign
PHILADELPHIA -- You can easily track the minute-by-minute price swings of a barrel of oil, but can you do the same for a megawatt of electricity? Today you can.
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Penn to Host Access to USC Shoah Foundation Institute Archive; Nearly 52,000 Holocaust Testimonies on Video
WHAT: The launch of the University of Pennsylvania’s access to the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s entire Visual History Archive that contains nearly 52,000 video testimonies of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust from 56 countries and in 32 languages.