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Penn’s Climate Action Plan Progress Reported at Global University Leaders Forum
PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania was among a dozen universities from around the world that presented their campus sustainability reports this week at the 2011 World Economic Forum’s Global University Leaders Forum.
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Penn Ready for RecycleMania 2011
PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania community is gearing up for its fourth year of participation in RecycleMania, an annual waste-reduction and recycling competition between colleges and universities across the United States and Canada.
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Dig in and learn plenty from Penn Libraries’ wide range of music collections
If you are doing serious research, or if you simply want to learn more about Philadelphia's connection to great music, check out Penn Libraries' extensive music collections. The collected works provide a vast compilation of research material from nationally and internationally renowned artists, such as conductors Eugene Ormandy and Leopold Stokowski, and famed Philadelphia contralto Marian Anderson.
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Penn community comes together to help West Philly fire victims
After a serious fire severely damaged a four-story apartment building in West Philadelphia earlier this month, Penn students, faculty and staff came together—along with the University City District and the Salvation Army—to collect clothes, household goods, bed linens and other necessities for the more than 100 residents, including Penn students, who were displaced by the blaze. On Jan. 10, the five-alarm fire raged through the Windermere Court apartments at 48th and Walnut streets.
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Field Center helps craft federal child abuse prevention legislation
The Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Research, an interdisciplinary collaboration between Penn’s schools of Social Policy & Practice, Law and Medicine and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, works to creatively address critical issues facing the child welfare system and improve the lives of victims of child neglect and abuse.
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Is your department overwhelmed by the same old questions? askBEN for help
“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
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Penn, Wharton Get $6.5 Million Gift From Barry R. Lipman for Lipman Family Prize in Leadership, Innovation
The University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School are pleased to announce a $6.5 million gift from Barry R. Lipman to establish the Lipman Family Prize. Awarded annually, the Prize will recognize and amplify the work of an organization devoted to positive social impact and the creation of sustainable solutions to significant social and economic challenges. Lipman, W’70, is a co-founder of Goldfarb & Lipman (now Goldfarb Lipman, a leading California law firm).
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Penn Students to Host Viewing Party for President Obama’s State of the Union Address
WHO: Penn Democrats and College RepublicansWHEN: Jan. 25, 2011, 8:30 p.m.WHERE: University of Pennsylvania, Huntsman Hall, 38th and Walnut streetsStudents, faculty and members of the Penn community are invited to watch the televised State of the Union Address and participate in a discussion after the address.
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Student Spotlight: Rachel Leah Cohen
HAND2PAW: College junior Rachel Leah Cohen established an organization called Hand2Paw in December 2009, bringing together homeless teens and homeless animals with the goal of providing love, support and education to both the people and the pets.
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Tim Wise, Author of “Between Barack and a Hard Place,” to Speak at Penn’s King Lecture in Social Justice
WHO: Tim Wise, author of “Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and Denial in the Age of Obama” WHEN: Jan. 26, 2011, 5:30 p.m. WHERE: University of Pennsylvania