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Penn students and alumni embark on an award tour
Penn students and alumni have been on an award tour lately, picking up a number of fellowships and scholarships enabling them to further their scholarship here and around the world. The University’s Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships (CURF) has played an integral part in helping undergraduates, grad students, and alumni locate and apply for research grants and competitive scholarships.
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Penn GSE Event Addresses Global Literacy, Recognizes Inauguration of UNESCO Chair
PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education will host “Global Literacy in the 21st Century: Problems and Prospects,” at 4 p.m., Thursday, March 15 in Huntsman Hall. Featuring Irina Bokova, the director-general of UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, this symposium is free and open to the public.
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Penn Student Wins Gates Cambridge Scholarship
PHILADELPHIA – University of Pennsylvania senior Eileen Moison has been awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to spend at least a year at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom pursuing a graduate degree in biochemistry. Afterwards she plans to continue towards a doctoral degree in biochemistry/molecular biology.
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University of Pennsylvania Announces 2012 Thouron Award Winners
PHILADELPHIA – Seven University of Pennsylvania seniors and a Penn alumna have received Thouron Awards to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom. The award winners are: Besan Abu-Joudeh, a statistics and international studies major, is applying to the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London to study for an MSc in Political Economy of Development.
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Penn Helps Rethink Smartphone Design With 'Computational Sprinting'
PHILADELPHIA — Computational sprinting is a groundbreaking new approach to smartphone power and cooling that could give users dramatic, brief bursts of computing capability to improve current applications and make new ones possible.
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Feb. 28 Penn Lightbulb Café to Focus on Children Asking for Help in the Classroom
PHILADELPHIA – At the Penn Lightbulb Café on Tuesday, Feb. 28, Jessica McCrory Calarco, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology in Penn’s School of Arts and Sciences, will discuss her research about the correlation between socioeconomic class and children’s seeking help in the classroom. The free lecture series takes discussions about the arts, humanities and social sciences out of the classroom for a night on the town.
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Wharton and NFL partner for high school business boot camp
The odds of a high school athlete making it to the pros are miniscule, but for the select group of elite players who have the potential to play at the professional level, the Wharton School and the NFL are partnering to give them a leg up on how to handle business and life issues.
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Sleepless in the South: Penn Medicine Study Discovers State and Regional Prevalence of Sleep Issues
Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have put sleeplessness on the map — literally. The research team, analyzing nationwide data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has produced the first state-by-state sleep maps for the United States, revealing that residents of Southern states suffer from the most sleep disturbances and daytime fatigue, while residents on the West Coast report the least amount of problems.
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Med Ed program helps teachers teach doctors
Teaching students who are on the path to becoming physicians is nothing new at Penn. Founded in 1765, the Perelman School of Medicine is the oldest medical school in the United States and has been training doctors for almost 250 years.
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Penn Institute for Urban Research keeps a city pace
As a university located in one of America’s largest cities, it seems fitting that Penn should have an institute dedicated to all things urban. And just as cities are fast-paced and ever-changing, the Penn Institute for Urban Research (IUR) has in eight years evolved from a singular research entity into an international resource known for its panels, symposia, and book series.