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Penn Electric Racing powers up all-electric race car
Top: President Gutmann cruises in Renegade with members of Penn Electric Racing. Bottom: The Penn Electric Racing team. Photo Credit: Penn Engineering
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Staff Q&A with Jamie Shuda
For teachers with little to no scientific training, leading science lessons in the classroom can be downright intimidating. Jamie Shuda—a self-described educator by training and scientist by interest—is making it her goal to demystify science in the classroom for both students and teachers.
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Guilt-free
When hunger pangs strike and you’re face-to-face with snack options, Penn vending machines are now clearly labeled so you can make smarter choices. Items that have less than 250 calories and 350 mg of sodium are marked with a green “Balanced Choices” logo. Healthier snacks include pretzels, fruit snacks, baked potato chips and Fig Newtons.
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Penn Women Rowers
Penn’s long history of competitive rowing started in the 1850s when the University’s freshman, sophomore, junior and senior classes competed against each other. Nearly 20 years later, with the development of intercollegiate rowing, Penn students founded the College Boat Club. The rowers, all men, began participating in competitive intercollegiate rowing in 1872, one year after Amherst, Brown, Bowdoin and Harvard formed the Rowing Association of American Colleges.
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Eco dining
The ground floor of The Radian is getting a new tenant. The eatery Sweetgreen will open its doors late this spring at 3925 Walnut St., serving salads, yogurt and wraps. Sweetgreen offers healthy, eco-conscious dining choices, relying on local and organic farmers for products. All packaging is 100 percent plant-based compostable and all proteins on the menu are hormone- and antibiotic-free. The company offsets 100 percent of its energy with wind energy credits.
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‘Sculpting the land’ of Penn Park
Upon completion of the 24-acre Penn Park project, expected to occur this fall, pedestrians will have access to walkways and green space along the Schuylkill River, with the city skyline as a backdrop. Three footbridges will give them access to the site. One will be located at 30th and Walnut streets; another will extend out from the existing Paley Bridge, located behind Franklin Field; and a third will be connected to the Weave Bridge, which is situated on the eastern edge of the site.
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All Quaker sports, all the time
In 2007, the online Penn Sports Network (PSN), operated by Penn Athletics, was launched to offer Quaker fans, foreign and domestic, unparalleled access to all 33 varsity sports at the University, and exclusive live audio and video streaming of Penn athletic events.
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Nursing prof helps launch national breastfeeding ‘Call to Action’
The World Health Organization and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend that newborn babies breastfeed exclusively for the first six months of life, but only about 13 percent of infants in the United States receive nothing but human milk for that amount of time.
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Obama’s Bioethics Commission on human subjects protections
The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, chaired by Penn President Amy Gutmann, met in Washington this week to discuss the protection of human subjects in scientific studies. The Commission was asked by President Obama to take on this topic in the wake of revelations last October about U.S.
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Penn and city distribute free trees to University homeowners
Photo Credit: Peter Tobia If you are a Penn employee who owns a home within the Philadelphia city limits and would like to add a little green to your yard, the University has a deal for you.