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Penn’s UPStart program celebrates a year of innovation
To Michael Cleare, executive director of Penn’s Center for Technology Transfer (CTT), it’s not enough that the University is a hotbed of scientific research. If all that knowledge is to be truly meaningful, it must make its way off campus.
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The rapid rise of service learning
In the 1991-92 school year, three Penn faculty members taught 100 students in four Academically Based Community Service (ABCS) courses, classes that involve hands-on, real-world problem solving. By 2000-01, there were 38 courses taught by 34 faculty to 925 students. Data from the 2009-10 school year shows 1,575 students enrolled in 61 ABCS courses taught by 48 Penn faculty members.
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Q&A with David L. Cohen
Through the years, Philadelphians have used a number of different adjectives and phrases to describe one of the city’s most high-profile and powerful adopted sons, David L. Cohen, including “level-headed,” “straight-forward,” “structured,” “disciplined,” the “calm in the eye of the storm,” a “stickler for details,” “savvy,” “tough” and a “methodical orchestrator.” But encountering him in person brings a different word to mind—unassuming. (Even his office inside the sleek Comcast high rise is unpretentious.)
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Learning about ethics of design through 'the dark side'
This weekend, two Penn professors will present “Unethical Machines,” a gallery show of student projects that combine art, technology and "bad behavior" aimed at exploring the ethics of surveillance, privacy and the sanctity of personal information.
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Penn Home Ownership Services helps employees settle in West Philly
Penn employees looking to buy a home in West Philadelphia can get help and advice through Penn's Home Ownership Services (PHOS).
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Historic gift
The Penn Libraries have received a major collection of 280 medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, valued at more than $20 million, from long-time benefactors and Library Board members Lawrence J. Schoenberg, a Penn alumnus, and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg. To promote the use of this and other manuscript collections at Penn, the Libraries will create the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies.
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Penn marks the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The Word gave life to everything that was created.
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Engineering undergrads design bike with split personality
A team of Penn Engineering students has designed a bike that offers cyclists the best of both worlds, as part of the school's annual Senior Design competition. This year the champion was the ALPHA, a novel bicycle, designed by Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics seniors Lucas Hartman, Geoff Johnson, Katie Savarise, Evan Dvorak, and Katie Rohacz, that can switch from fixed-wheel mode to freewheel mode, and has a unique drivetrain and embedded electronics inside its frame.
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Prized fiction
Author and journalist Jennifer Egan, who graduated from the College in 1985, was recently awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her novel, “A Visit From the Goon Squad.” The jury of judges called the novel “an inventive investigation of growing up and growing old in the digital age, displaying a big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed.”
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Two Penn Students Named Albert Schweitzer Fellows
PHILADELPHIA — Two graduate students from the University of Pennsylvania, along with 13 others from the greater Philadelphia region, have each been awarded an Albert Schweitzer Fellowship. These students, members of the 2011-12 class of Greater Philadelphia Schweitzer Fellows, will spend the next year addressing health disparities in the region while developing lifelong leadership skills.