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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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‘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.”
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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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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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Dedicated to Nature Penn President Amy Gutmann is scheduled to speak at a dedication ceremony for The Morris Arboretum’s new $13 million Horticulture Center at Bloomfield Farm, across the street from the Arboretum’s public garden, on Oct. 5. Philadelphia philanthropist Dorrance Hamilton, a key supporter of the Horticulture Center, is also expected to attend the invitation-only event. Also in attendance will be Peter and Bonnie McCausland, long-time Morris Arboretum supporters and now, the Arboretum’s new neighbors at Erdenheim Farm.
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Blow Them Horns Like Coltrane
Four-time Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard is probably best known for his work with acclaimed writer/director/producer Spike Lee, having scored Lee’s “Miracle at St. Anna,” “Inside Man,” “She Hate Me,” “The 25th Hour,” “Bamboozled,” “Jungle Fever” and “Malcolm X,” among others.
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Administrator of BP and Sept. 11th Victim-Compensation Funds to Speak at Penn Law School Today
WHO: Kenneth Feinberg WHAT: “Unconventional Responses to Unique Catastrophies” WHEN: Oct. 12, 2010, 4:30 p.m.
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Penn Biologists Say Species Accumulate on Earth at Slower Rates Than in the Past
PHILADELPHIA –- Computational biologists at the University of Pennsylvania say that species are still accumulating on Earth but at a slower rate than in the past.
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Penn conference explores architecture for the elderly
With the number of senior citizens in the United States expected to continue increasing in the decades to come, the need for suitable housing is also expected to rise. In a call to action to find creative as well as pragmatic solutions to providing housing for the elderly, Penn’s School of Design is bringing together more than a dozen experts to discuss the issue.