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Year-Long 'Imagine Africa' Public Project Begins Sept. 18 at Penn Museum
PHILADELPHIA, PA—How do you imagine Africa? Do you see it as the home of powerful nations? Do you think of intricately carved masks or fine art? Maybe you're interested in the peoples living in Africa today.Imagine Africa with the Penn Museum, a twelve-month project investigating community perspectives, launches Sunday, September 18.
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Penn Graduate School of Education to Share in $1 Million Grant to Study Early Algebra Initiatives
PHILADELPHIA — A team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and Michigan State University have been awarded a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate how schools and districts are handling the “universal early algebra” imperative, a push for students to complete algebra before the end of ninth grade.
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Penn Vet’s Michael R. Moyer Earns DelCo SPCA’s Animal Welfare Leadership Award
University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine’s Michael R. Moyer, VMD, has been named recipient of the 2011 Delaware County SPCA Animal Welfare Leadership Award. Presented annually by the Media, PA-based animal shelter, the award aims honor community leaders who are positively impacting shelter animal medicine in the region.
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Medical, Surgical Treatments Equally Effective for Common Inflammatory Eye Condition, Penn Study Finds
PHILADELPHIA — Patients with uveitis, the fifth leading cause of vision loss in the United States, treated with either systemic anti-inflammatory medicine or with a time-release implant surgically placed inside the eye experienced a similar degree of visual improvement over two years, according to a new study from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Wisconsin.
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Penn offers help in keeping privacy secure on Facebook
Facebook, with more than 750 million users, makes it easy to connect and share photos with family, friends and co-workers, but sharing too much information on the website can pose a threat to personal privacy. Facebook does offer settings to help protect privacy by limiting information that “friends” can access, but often just finding the settings on the website can be difficult. To help, Penn’s Office of Audit, Compliance & Privacy has created a “Top 10 Facebook Privacy Guide.”
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Relationship Between Exercise, Breast Cancer Recurrence to Be Studied by New Penn Med Center
PHILADELPHIA — A $10 million grant from the National Cancer Institute will fund a new center at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania focusing on the relationship between exercise, weight loss, and improving the length and quality of life for the nation's 12 million cancer survivors. Projects in the Penn Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer (TREC) Survivor Center will include:
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Penn Museum marks 9/11 anniversary with exhibition, special programming
Sept. 11, 2001 is a day that has been seared into the collective public memory. Nineteen Al-Qaeda suicide terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes, crashing two into 1 and 2 World Trade Center, which both later collapsed, one into the Pentagon and one into a field near Shanksville, Pa. The images of the the Twin Towers crumbling and soot-covered New Yorkers fleeing smoke-filled streets have become tragic milestones of modern American history.
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Penn football team to play on national television
The two-time defending Ivy League Champion Penn football team will have three nationally televised games this season, tied for the most in school history.
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GSE receives $10,000 gift to support Haiti education efforts
In January 2010, after a 7.0 earthquake devastated Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands, including nearly 1,300 teachers and 200 education officials and administrators, a team of researchers from Penn’s Graduate School of Education (GSE) began searching for ways to help the Caribbean nation’s education sector recover and rebuild. In December, the GSE team solidified an official partnership with the Ministry of Education in Haiti (MENFP).
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Penn Molecular Scientists Develop Color-Changing Stress Sensor
PHILADELPHIA — It is helpful — even life-saving — to have a warning sign before a structural system fails, but, when the system is only a few nanometers in size, having a sign that’s easy to read is a challenge. Now, thanks to a clever bit of molecular design by University of Pennsylvania and Duke University bioengineers and chemists, such warning can come in the form of a simple color change.