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National Institutes of Health Honors Two Penn Researchers With 2010 New Innovator Awards
PHILADELPHIA –- University of Pennsylvania researchers Ritesh Agarwal and Patrick Seale have been honored with the New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health, providing each with $1.5 million to support their research for five years.
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Penn Announces Third Round of Green Fund Grants; Submission Deadline Is Oct. 29
PHILADELPHIA –- The University of Pennsylvania’s Green Fund will accept applications beginning Oct. 1 for a third round of grants to support green innovative ideas from students, faculty or staff designed to help Penn meet its sustainability goals. Deadline for submission is Oct. 29, and the awards will be announced in mid-November. The maximum allocation for any one grant is $50,000.
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A link between asthma and violence?
Asthma morbidity is disproportionately high in low-income, inner-city communities. According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, African Americans are three times more likely to die from asthma, and African-American women have the highest asthma mortality rate of all groups.
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WXPN holds The Key to Philly’s music scene
Songs—in the key of Philly—have a new online home. WXPN, Penn’s renowned rock radio station, rolled out its latest endeavor, a website called The Key, in early September. At thekey.xpn.org, music fans will find blanket coverage of the thriving Philadelphia scene, a vibrant and diverse one that’s growing every day.
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Pepper Mill Café
WHAT: The Pepper Mill Café is the new eatery at the Penn Museum, located at 3260 South St. The café is open to the public from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Monday; 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday; 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday; and 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
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Laramie epilogue
In 1998, Matthew Shepard was abducted, brutally beaten and left to die, lashed to a fence in Laramie, Wyo. At the time, a group of actors with the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to the town to interview its residents about the tragedy. From those 200 interviews they created the watershed play “The Laramie Project,” which has become one of the most performed plays in America today.
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Staff Q&A / Sam Starks
Photo credit: Candace diCarlo Executive Order 11246, signed by President Lyndon Johnson on Sept. 24, 1965, prohibited any contractor doing business with the government from discriminating against any employee or applicant because of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
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Students host TEDxPenn forum on campus
Inspired by the innovative knowledge seminars known as TED that originated in California, students at Penn have started their own TEDxPenn event, scheduled to take place from noon until 5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 1, at the Bruce Montgomery Theatre in the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.
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Penn helps parents navigate the adoption process
Dear Benny: My spouse and I have decided to take what is without question one of the biggest steps of our lives: We are going to adopt a child. Does Penn offer any programs to prospective parents to help them through the adoption process? —Welcoming The Stork
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‘Young sciences’ delve into the mysteries of the brain
Martha Farah says that in “young sciences” like psychology and neuroscience, “you can never be on intellectual autopilot.” “Every day you are thinking hard about what the right questions are to ask, how you can possibly answer them, how various kinds of data relate to the theories being tested, what a correct theory might look like,” she says. “None of this can be taken for granted in cognitive neuroscience.”