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Penn hosts Silfen Forum on the polarization of public debate and discourse in America
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Penn President Amy Gutmann Convenes Panel Examining the State of Public Discourse in America
WHO:University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann, a political scientist and philosopher, will moderate the David and Lyn Silfen University Forum panel, whose members include: Jim Leach, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities and former U.S. CongressmanAndrea Mitchell, chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News and Penn TrusteeThree distinguished members of the Penn faculty, Professors Kathleen Hall Jamieson, John DiIulio and John Jackson Jr.
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Penn Dental School Alumnus/World War II Commander Gives $17.3 Million In Largest Ever Gift to Penn Dental
PHILADELPHIA – Dr. Louis Schoenleber, Jr. (C’42, D’43), an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, World War II Navy Commander and oral surgeon, has left the majority of proceeds from his multi-million-dollar estate to Penn Dental Medicine’s Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. The bequest, totaling $17.3 million, is the largest gift in the School’s history and one of the largest gifts ever to a U.S. dental school.
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Iron Curtain
After former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin passed away in 1953, Nikita Khrushchev rose to power as the first Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. But while Stalin was infamous for his brutal regime and censorship, Khrushchev led a period of de-Stalinization, allowing a somewhat more relaxed political climate with plenty of propaganda, but less censorship.This period in Soviet history is known as “Khrushchev’s Thaw.”
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South Street Bridge expected to reopen in November
Photo credit: H2L2 Architects & Planners The architectural rendering shows a stylized traffic span with lighted posts and plenty of room for walkers and cyclists to share with motorists.
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Staff Q&A / Cassandra Parks - DeVaughn
Photo credit: Peter Tobia March Madness rages on in April at the Palestra.
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Penn Athletics inducts 12 into Hall of Fame
Penn is known for its remarkable scholars, but it will be the University’s exceptional scholar-athletes who take center stage on Saturday, May 8, when Penn Athletics honors its 2010 Hall of Fame class at a black-tie gala.
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Pocket Grill, PD Solutions, CampusYap Vie for Top Prizes in Annual PennVention Student Competition
PHILADELPHIA –- The Weiss Tech House, a student-run hub of technological innovation at the University of Pennsylvania, will announce the winners of its yearlong inventor’s fair, PennVention, on April 9, 2010 at the Wu and Chen Auditorium at Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science.
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Is the performance appraisal process important?
Dear Benny: I recently received information on guidelines for the Performance and Staff Development Program. Because I’m new to Penn, I’m not familiar with the performance appraisal process and how it works. Could you tell me more about it and why performance appraisals are necessary? —Puzzled by Process
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Penn Relays
The official name of the event is the Penn Relay Carnival, but most people know the nation’s oldest track and field competition as the Penn Relays. Scheduled for April 22 through 24 this year, the 2010 Penn Relays will mark the 116th year of the famed outdoor sports tradition.