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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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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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By Focusing on Reducing Disease Risk, “Desktop Medicine” will Transform the Practice of Medicine
Gone are the days when a doctor’s only way of helping patients is by treating the disease after symptoms have started. Instead, a new approach to medicine, called “Desktop Medicine” is emerging, in which the emphasis shifts from diagnosing diseases and treating symptoms to identifying risk-factors for medical conditions such as hypertension and osteoporosis, and intervening before they develop. The commentary appears in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Penn President Amy Gutmann Receives Philadelphia Public Relations Association’s Gold Medal
PHILADELPHIA -- University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann received the 2010 Gold Medal Award from the Philadelphia Public Relations Association at a ceremony here today.
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Pan Asian American Community House celebrates 10th anniversary
Penn President Amy Gutmann joins PAACH members and staff in celebrating the Center's 10th anniversary. The Pan Asian American Community House (PAACH) is celebrating 10 years of serving as a cultural resource center at Penn.
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Philadelphia: city of love, with music by Penn students
Penn students (top) serenade a couple on the Philadelphia Mural Arts "Love Letter Tour." When a visiting Canadian man wanted to propose to his girlfriend in a memorable way, the Penn Glee Club and the Penn Singers Light Opera Company joined in to help him surprise her.
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Penn Scientists Identify New Role for Protein Molecule That Inhibits Response of Immune-System Cells
PHILADELPHIA -– Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have identified a new role for a protein molecule that inhibits the response of immune-system cells to inflammatory signals associated with many human diseases.
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Penn Center for High Impact Philanthropy Hosts Inaugural Seminar Featuring Newark Mayor
PHILADELPHIA –- The Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the University of Pennsylvania will host its inaugural seminar, “Addressing the Needs of Vulnerable Families,” on Monday, Nov. 8, featuring Cory A. Booker, mayor of Newark, N.J., as the keynote speaker.
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Shoemaker Green: A verdant gateway between east and west
The demolition of the old tennis courts that lie between the iconic Palestra and the new Weiss Pavilion, off 33rd Street, is scheduled to begin next summer, making way for a new green space the entire Penn com