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Online Poetry Magazine Jacket Has New Home at Penn, Revamped as Jacket2
PHILADELPHIA – One of the world’s earliest online poetry and poetics magazines, Jacket, which ceased publication last year, now has a new home at the University of Pennsylvania and a new name, Jacket2. When Jacket was first published in 1997, the Guardian hailed “Jacket” as “the prince of online poetry magazines.”
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Three Penn GSE Profs Lead Panel Discussion in “Mandates, Models and Methods, Oh My!”
PHILADELPHIA — Three panelists from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education will host a discussion at the 2011 Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Lecture, “Mandates, Models and Methods, Oh My!: A Strategic Look at the Essential Components of Early Childhood Education,” Wednesday, April 27, 4-5:30 p.m. at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, 202 S. 36th St.
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Carolyn Marvin's Book Earns Fellows Book Award from International Communication Association
Carolyn Marvin, Ph.D., the Frances Yates Professor of Communication, has won the Fellows Book Award from the International Communication Association for her work, When old technologies were new: Thinking about communication in the late nineteenth century (Oxford).
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Penn School of Nursing Hosts Bioethics Symposium April 27
PHILADELPHIA – The Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania opens its 25th-anniversary year with the symposium “Bioethics: History Informing the Future.”
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Penn Libraries to Launch Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies With $20 Million Gift
PHILADELPHIA – 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 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 Libraries to launch Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies
The Penn Libraries have received a major collection of 280 Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, valued at over $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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GRASP robot throws out first pitch at Phillies game
On Wednesday, April 20, a special member of the Penn community took to the field at Citizens Bank Park as the Phillies met the Milwaukee Brewers. A robot from the University’s General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab threw out the first pitch as part of the Phillies’ “Science Day at the Ballpark.” The event was part of the citywide Philadelphia Science Festival, which runs April 15 through 28.
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President Gutmann receives child advocacy award
The Support Center for Child Advocates presented Penn President Amy Gutmann with the 2011 Judge Lois G. Forer Child Advocacy Award yesterday evening at a ceremony where, among others, Richard Gelles, dean of the School of Social Policy and Practice, and Ira Harkavy, founding director of the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships, were also honored as 2011 Distinguished Advocates.
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Hear good music and support public health programs in Philadelphia
Cellist Amy Sue Barston and pianist Navah Perlman have performed in major concert venues around the world, and now they’re coming to Penn to do a fundraising concert for the Center for Public Health Initiatives (CPHI).
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Penn helps city police update how they report domestic violence incidents
The Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) receives nearly 150,000 calls regarding incidents of domestic disturbance each year. For the past 30 years, the forms that police used to report these incidents were the same as those used for all other crimes—leaving out pertinent details that are unique to domestic violence cases. “For the most part, it was up to the discretion of the officer to fill in any relevant information,” says Patricia Giorgio Fox, deputy commissioner of the PPD.