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Penn’s Deirdre Martinez to Be on Washington Post’s “Campus Overload Live” Online Chat Today
PHILADELPHIA -- Deirdre Martinez, a faculty member in the University of Pennsylvania’s Fels Institute of Government and director of the Penn in Washington Program, will field questions and offer advice about summer internships in a WashingtonPost.com online chat from 1 to 2 p.m., June 23.
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theCoursebook takes top prize in GSE business plan competition
Alexandre Scialom, a 32-year-old native of Fouju, France, and creator of theCourseBook, took top honors and won a total of $50,000 in prize money in this year’s Milken-Penn Graduate School of Education Business Plan Competition, the only business plan competition solely focused on improving education. TheCourseBook connects lifelong learners to online and offline resources by helping them to easily locate third-party education resources and by offering guidance to support their professional and personal development.
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Penn’s Information Systems & Computing Ranked No. 6 in 2011 List of Best IT Places to Work
PHILADELPHIA – IDG's Computerworld announces the University of Pennsylvania’s Information Systems & Computing organization as a 2011 Best Places to Work in IT honoree, one of 100 top organizations that challenge their IT staffs while providing great benefits and compensation. Honorees will be included in coverage in Computerworld along with results from the 18th annual Best Places to Work in IT survey.
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Campus cafés offer homey hospitality
There are plenty of places to find food and drink on and near campus, ranging from vending machines to food trucks, to the many restaurants situated in University City. But tucked away inside several University buildings there are also small, intimate cafés that offer diners charming spots to refuel, relax and recharge. The cafés sprinkled throughout campus are Penn’s version of neighborhood sandwich shops or corner stores.
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Penn Alexander partnership extended through 2021
The partnership between Penn, the School District of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers that supports the successful and innovative Penn Alexander School in West Philadelphia has been extended through 2021. The University will continue to provide an annual contribution of $1,330 per child, as much as $700,000 a year and a range of other services.
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Penn’s Douglas Jerolmack First Recipient of Luna B Leopold Young Scientist Award
PHILADELPHIA -- Douglas Jerolmack, a professor of earth and environmental science at the University of Pennsylvania, has won the American Geophysical Union’s first Luna B. Leopold Young Scientist Award. Established in 2009 by AGU’s Earth and Planetary Surface Processes focus group, the award honors geomorphologist and hydrologist Luna B. Leopold.
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Penn Physicists Observe “Campfire Effect” in Blinking Nanorod Semiconductors
PHILADELPHIA — When semiconductor nanorods are exposed to light, they blink in a seemingly random pattern. By clustering nanorods together, physicists at the University of Pennsylvania have shown that their combined “on” time is increased dramatically providing new insight into this mysterious blinking behavior.
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Penn Law Professors Honored for Supreme Court Case Work
PHILADELPHIA -- Professor Stephanos Bibas and lecturers Yolanda Vazquez and Stephen Kinnaird of the University of Pennsylvania Law School along with their legal team have been awarded the 2011 Jack Wasserman Memorial Award from the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
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Next Generation Gene Therapy: Penn Study Shows Potential of Gene Vector to Broaden Eye-Disease Treatment
Philadelphia — Inspired by earlier successes using gene therapy to correct an inherited type of blindness, investigators from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, are poised to extend their approach to other types of blinding disorders.
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Penn/MAGPI to Provide Advanced Networking, Applications, Demonstrations at Conference
PHILADELPHIA – MAGPI, the University of Pennsylvania's Internet2 hub, is bringing advanced networking connectivity to the 2011 International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Conference at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia June 26-29.