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Half a century of worldwide exchange

The West African nation of Cameroon is far removed, both physically and figuratively, from the City of Brotherly Love, but the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology’s International Classroom is helping bridge that divide.

A father’s dream fulfilled

Penny Metchev has told the story many times before and on the surface it is primarily about her father. But as the Wharton and College senior prepares to enter her final semester as a Penn World Scholar, Metchev says she has come to realize that she will be the one to write the final chapter.

For the Record: Kite and Key Society

At any time of year, it’s common to come across groups of prospective students and their families touring the campus, led by an undergraduate volunteer guide.

Alumnae of distinction

Late last month, Penn Vet Dean Joan Hendricks and three other Penn alumnae were named 2011 Women of Distinction by the Philadelphia Business Journal.

From FDR to Obama

Rehabilitating soldiers after war

By 1916, the U.S. federal government had spent more than $5 billion on Civil War pensions, more than the cost of the entire four-year war. Established in the second year of the Civil War as a way to recruit Union soldiers, the pension system reassured enlisted men that their wives would receive payment if they were killed, or soldiers would receive a lifetime of financial support if injured.

Researchers make progress in search for elusive Higgs Boson

A machine designed to recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang now stands on the doorstep of a long-awaited discovery. On Tuesday, Dec. 13, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the $9 billion, 17-mile-long particle accelerator located underground near the French-Swiss border, announced that they had made significant progress in their search for the Higgs Boson, a particle theorized to be responsible for imbuing other particles with mass.

President’s Bioethics Commission Releases Report on Human Subjects Protection

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Is there a place to stargaze on Penn’s campus?

Dear Benny: I’ve been told that someplace on campus there is an observatory used for stargazing. If this is true, I’d like to know what sort of equipment it has. Also, can anyone visit? —Star Struck Dear Star Struck:

London Calling: Olympic Park South Commission Is a PennDesign Success

James Corner Field Operations (JCFO), the New York-based contemporary design practice led by the University of Pennsylvania's School of Design's James Corner, MLA'86, Professor and Chairman of Landscape Architecture, has won the commission to design the new public spaces in London Olympic Park South.This will be one of the first new public spaces and facilities added to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, which will host events following the 2012 Games.