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Campus safety drills prepare Penn for crises
Natural disasters have been making local headlines in recent days —hurricanes, floods, mudslides and even an earthquake right here in Philadelphia. So what should the Penn community do when there is a campus emergency?
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Student Spotlight with Kevin Conley
WHIZ KID: A self-proclaimed computer hacker, Kevin Conley, 21, a senior in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, has developed a social networking application called SMSPersonFinder that helps disaster victims around the world notify their loved ones that they are safe and unharmed.
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Frequently Asked Questions about Penn Park
The massive Penn Park project has transformed the eastern edge of campus from a series of surface parking lots and a former industrial site into a landscape of connected green public spaces, sports fields and pedestrian bridges. Have some questions about this new 24-acre site? Well, we have answers.
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Q&A with Edward Sidor
When members of the University and Philadelphia communities gathered nearly two years ago to formally kick off the construction phase of the Penn Park project, they did so standing in a barren, dusty landscape.
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Against violence
Susan Brown-Miller, author of “Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape,” one of the most important books of the 20th Century, according to the New York Public Library, will deliver a campus talk on Thursday, Nov. 3. Brown-Miller will be the guest at this year’s annual lecture, sponsored by the Evelyn Jacobs Ortner Center for Family Violence at the School of Social Policy and Practice. The lecture is free and open to the public and will take place in Room 245, Huntsman Hall, 3730 Walnut St. The time is TBD.
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New Book Examines Links Between Urban Environments and Women’s Health
PHILADELPHIA – Women’s Health and the World’s Cities (Penn Press 2011), an exploration of the relationships between urban environments and women’s health worldwide, was released this month by the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Nursing and Penn Institute for Urban Research.
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Famous scribes
In the spring of 2012, three renowned writers will come to campus as part of the Kelly Writers House Fellows program. Performance artist Karen Finley visits campus on Feb. 13 and 14, poet Ron Silliman visits on March 19 and 20 and novelist and short-story author John Barth comes to campus on April 23 and 24.
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Penn Park site during Philadelphia’s industrial era
Today, the sights and sounds coming from Penn Park are of people enjoying the outdoors, but long before it was a recreational area, the location was bustling with workers and the whirring, clanging and pounding of machinery.
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Penn Research Team Hosts Interactive Exhibit on Climate Change and Urban Space for “Parking Day”
WHO: University of Pennsylvania faculty, graduate and undergraduate members of Partnerships for International Research and Education Mongolia and School of Arts and Sciences staffWHAT: Scientists transform a parking space into an interactive exhibit on Mongolian climate change researchWHEN: Sept. 16, 2011 9 a.m to 3 p.m.
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Penn Vet Announces Recipients of World Leadership in Animal Health Award, Student Inspiration Award
Joan C. Hendricks, VMD, PhD, the Gilbert S. Kahn Dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet), announced that Dr. Ilaria Capua has been named the winner of the 2011 Penn Vet World Leadership in Animal Health Award and that Penn Vet student Dr. Jonathan Lustgarten has been named the 2011 Student Inspiration Award winner.Both Dr. Capua and Dr. Lustgarten will receive a $100,000 unrestricted grant to use toward realizing their veterinary missions and proposed projects.