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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.

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.”

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.

Staff Q&A / Cassandra Parks - DeVaughn

 Photo credit: Peter Tobia March Madness rages on in April at the Palestra.

Employee luncheons to explain Penn tuition benefits

Many Penn employees are aware of the generous tuition benefits offered by the University, but they are less sure about how to use them to pursue a degree or for personal enrichment.  

Examining religion and the Constitution

The opening words of the First Amendment —“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”—have long protected the public from federal religious infringement, but it wasn’t until the 1940s that the protection was applied to the states.

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.

Penn co-hosts national forum on community schools

Addressing the teachers, administrators and service providers gathered in Center City Philadelphia for the 2010 national forum of the Coalition of Community Schools, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said she likes schools that are “friendly places.” “We need to open them up, make them the centers of our communities.”