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Penn Recognized for Supporting Work/Life Balance
PHILADELPHIA –- The University of Pennsylvania has received the 2010 Terri Lynne Lokoff Child Care Foundation Corporate Leadership Award.
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Penn Study: Hospital CPR Quality Is Worse at Night
CHICAGO -- CPR quality is worse during in-hospital cardiac arrests occurring overnight than those that happen during the day, according to a new University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine study that will be presented at the American Heart Association's annual Scientific Sessions on November 14.
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Penn-Led International Study Finds No Difference in Nonsuicide Mortality Between Two Anti-Psychotic Drugs
PHILADELPHIA - The potential for harmful side effects associated with anti-psychotic medications for treating schizophrenia is a frustration for mental-health professionals who must balance this with the positive benefits of drugs. For example, the issue of the antipsychotic drug ziprasidone lengthening the QTc interval, a possible indicator of life-threatening heart arrhythmias, has demanded much attention among clinicians since the drug was introduced in 2001.
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Baby Blues BBQ
WHAT: Baby Blues BBQ is the restaurant and bar that’s taken the place of the departed Bubble Tea House at 3402 Sansom St., across the street from Penn Law School. NEW TIME ZONE: Baby Blues began as a beachside joint in Venice, Calif., (founded by Philly native Danny Fischer and his partner Rick McCarthy) and grew into a small chain with locations in West Hollywood and San Francisco. The Sansom Street location is its first on the East Coast.
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Celebrating the creative spirit of C.K.Williams
Photo credit: Stuart Watson Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Penn alumnus C.K. Williams received Penn’s 2010 Creative Spirit Award during the recent Homecoming Weekend in recognition of the creative influence he has had in literature.
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Happ-e Holidays The holiday season is ripe with card-sending occasions, including Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas and Kwanzaa, not to mention birthdays, weddings or anniversaries that may fall in between. Purchasing and filling out holiday cards, buying stamps and mailing the greetings to family and friends can be a monotonous and time-consuming process. Penn’s free eCard site, courtesy of the Business Services Division, is making sending holiday or greeting cards quicker and easier.
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Staff Q&A / David Hollenberg
Take a tour of Penn’s campus and you’ll see modern buildings and green space coexisting peacefully with structures more than a century old. There’s the gleaming modern green brick of Skirkanich Hall nestled in between the Moore and Towne buildings. Or the 1924 Fisher-Bennett Hall and the 1890 original Music Building—now both equipped with fully modern interior spaces. This blending of the old and new, the historic and the innovative, make Penn’s campus a special place—a place not with a specific style, says University Architect David Hollenberg, but with an attitude.
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Get free help with electronic gadgets and computer programs
Using the latest Apple contraption or Microsoft Office program can be intimidating and frustrating for the technologically challenged, but the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center offers free workshops to assist those who are less electronically inclined.
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Penn in the Sixties
Penn was by no means as radical as the University of California at Berkeley, or Columbia University, in the turbulent and tumultuous 1960s, but the University did see its share of campus uprisings and sit-ins to protest civil rights violations, the lack of cultural studies, assassinations and the Vietnam War. In this edition of By The Numbers, we give peace a chance with Penn in the Sixties. 1,200 Number of people who attended a teach-in at Irvine Auditorium in April of 1965 to protest the Vietnam War.
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Emphasizing the human in ‘human rights’
The United States, although widely recognized as a bastion of freedom and democracy, does not get an automatic “A” on its human rights report card.