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Two University of Pennsylvania Students Awarded Soros Fellowships for New Americans

PHILADELPHIA –University of Pennsylvania graduate students Yoonhee Patricia Ha and Yin Li are among 30 students from across the United States awarded 2011 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. Both are enrolled in Penn M.D./Ph.D. programs. The Fellowships “highlight the extraordinary promise, diversity, drive and determination of recent immigrants – and children of immigrants -- to this country,” according to the Soros’ trust literature.  Each fellow will receive tuition and living expenses of as much as $90,000 over two academic years. 

Statement to the Penn Community From the Executive Vice President Regarding HEI Hotels & Resorts

Two Penn Campus Renovation Projects Garner LEED Gold Designations

PHILADELPHIA -- Two recent renovations on the University of Pennsylvania campus have been certified LEED Gold this month by the U.S. Green Building Council: The School of Arts and Sciences’ Music Building at 202 S. 34th St., and Joe’s Café, a new eatery in the Wharton School’s Steinberg-Dietrich Hall.

University of Pennsylvania’s Fels Institute of Government Announces 2011 Public Policy Challenge Winners

PHILADELPHIA – Team Virtual Market Philly has won the Fels Institute of Government 2011 Public Policy Challenge. The annual student competition at the University of Pennsylvania brings graduate students from different disciplines together to devise practical solutions to public policy challenges facing Philadelphia.

Student Spotlight with Yali Derman

CARRY ON: Yali Derman, 20, is a sophomore in Penn’s School of Nursing and a handbag designer. She’s also a two-time cancer survivor, beating leukemia at ages 5 and 9 and receiving a bone marrow transplant from her brother, Benji, at age 9. She says her latest creative handbag effort, Yali’s Carry On, signifies how people carry on when faced with medical baggage or challenges.

Q&A with Al Bagnoli

Coach Al Bagnoli is a winner. The George A. Munger Head Coach of Football at Penn, he is the winningest active coach in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), the winningest coach in Ivy League history and the winningest coach in Penn football history.

Staff Q&A with Kathy O’Connell

At 7 p.m., four nights a week, roughly 6,000 children across the Philadelphia area who could be settling in front of big-screen televisions, texting over their telephones or gazing into computer screens, choose instead to do something that children of the 1930s and 1940s once did: tune in to their favorite radio show.

Can science predict criminal behavior?

A century-and-a-half ago, a tape measure was an even more useful tool than it is now: You could use it to predict who was going to commit a crime.

It’s not just about clothes at Penn Fashion Week

Student fashionistas will get a chance to strike a pose and show off their finest inspirations during Penn Fashion Week, March 28 to April 2 at a number of campus locations.Celebrating its fifth anniversary, the six-day celebration will feature keynote speakers, professional panel discussions and a student-produced runway show.

Knowledge@Wharton reaches out to teens

Since its initial launch in 1999, the online business journalKnowledge@Whartonhas grown to become a widely respected network of digital business news and research publications with 1.7 million readers around the world.It is published in English, Chinese, Arabic and Portuguese, and has sites covering business news about Latin America and India. But this month Knowledge@Wharton entered what may prove to be its most challenging market yet—high school.