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Newsweek Correspondent Howard Fineman to Teach Mini-Courses at Penn
PHILADELPHIA – Howard Fineman, Newsweek columnist, senior editor and deputy Washington bureau chief, will teach a pair of multi-session mini-courses at the University of Pennsylvania this fall. Fineman will survey the history of American politics in fictional and non-fictional literature, discuss and analyze coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign and survey coverage of the 2010 midterm elections.
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Platelet Avatars: Penn Bioengineers Create Simulator to Test Blood Platelets in Virtual Heart Attacks
PHILADELPHIA –- A team of bioengineers from the University of Pennsylvania Institute for Medicine and Engineering have trained a computer neural network model to accurately predict how blood platelets would respond to complex conditions found during a heart attack or stroke.
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Andrea Mitchell, Rosemary Mazanet Named Campaign Co-Chairs of Making History at Penn
PHILADELPHIA -- Andrea Mitchell and Dr. Rosemary Mazanet have been named co-chairs of the University of Pennsylvania’s Making History: The Campaign for Penn. The announcement was made by Penn President Amy Gutmann at the June meeting of the Board of Trustees.
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Silk Road Summer Nights Kicks Off June 23
The sounds of summer in West Philadelphia, on Penn's campus, just got sweeter. Penn Museum's Silk Road Summer Nights music series offers city residents, commuters, and happy hour denizens an introduction to the music of the Silk Road.
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Penn Physicists Honored With 2010 Europhysics Prize
PHILADELPHIA -- Charles Kane and Eugene Mele of the University of Pennsylvania are among five scientists awarded the 2010 Europhysics Prize of the European Physical Society Condensed Matter Division for the theoretical prediction and experimental observation of the quantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators.
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Sex, Drugs and Moral Goals: A Penn Psychology Study of Reproductive Strategies and Recreational Drug Use
PHILADELPHIA –- Why is there so much disagreement about whether using recreational drugs is morally wrong? A University of Pennsylvania psychology study shows that the debate about drugs might really be about sex.The study compared two competing theories.One theory -- the conventional wisdom in political science -- sees drug attitudes as primarily coming from people's political ideology, level of religious commitment, and personality, for example, openness to experience.
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Penn Epidemiology Professor Awarded Individual Recognition Award by College of Physicians
Shiriki Kumanyika, PhD, MPH, professor of Epidemiology, has received an individual recognition award by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, section on Public Health and Preventive Medicine, for her leadership role in shaping Healthy People 2020.
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Penn biologist says fake eyes have enabled tropical caterpillars to thrive
Thirty-two years ago, Penn biologist Daniel Janzen broke some ribs falling into a ravine in the Área de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica. Sore and unable to leave his chair beneath a 25-watt light bulb deep in the forest, Janzen began to study the moths attracted to the dim light. What resulted was more than three decades of work collecting, photographing and raising caterpillars into adults, then identifying each of the species, half of which had never been described before.
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Rebecca Maynard of Penn GSE to Serve as NCEE Commissioner
PHILADELPHIA – Rebecca Maynard of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education has been named commissioner of the National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance.The appointment was announced by John Easton, director of the U. S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences.
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The United States of debt
$12,992,539,130,957.22. According to the U.S. Department of The Treasury, this was the national debt of the United States as of May 28. Twelve trillion, nine-hundred ninety-two billion, five-hundred thirty-nine million, one-hundred thirty thousand, nine-hundred fifty-seven dollars and twenty-two cents. (Without interest.)