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Events fit for a King
Each January, Penn and surrounding communities come together to commemorate the life and legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Included below are a few events featured around campus throughout the 13-day celebration. For the complete listing, visit www.vpul.upenn.edu/ohe/mlk/calendar.php. Monday, Jan. 18
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Penn and Milken Family Foundation launch business competition to improve education
Jill Disanto-Hanes Recognizing that education plays a critical role in today’s knowledge-based society, Penn’s Graduate School of Education and the Milken Family Foundation have launched a global education business plan competition calling for entrepreneurial ideas and innovative solutions to persistent challenges in education.
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What ails America’s health care policies?
As a boy, Tom Baker was fascinated with his father’s work as a doctor. But it wasn’t so much the white coat, stethoscope, or relationship Bruce Baker had with the patients in his family practice in upstate New York that captured young Tom’s imagination.
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Not Yet, Not Yet
President Obama’s historic election in November of 2008 ushered in a new era in American social and political history, a post-racial age in which all past wrongs are null and void, and are to be forgotten and forgiven.
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Is the Wistar Institute part of the University?
Dear Benny: Some people tell me the Wistar Institute is part of Penn. But other people tell me it is not affiliated with the University at all. What’s the truth? And what, by the way, does the Institute do?—Wondering Wistfully
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Penn’s Project for Civic Engagement Hosts Workshops on the Public Engagement Process of City’s New Zoning Code
PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania Project for Civic Engagement, in partnership with the Philadelphia chapter of the American Institute of Architects (under its umbrella organization of the Center for Architecture) and media partner WHYY will host a series of deliberative workshops to provide input to the Zoning Code Commission about the public engagement process of Philadelphia’s new zoning code.
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"Silence Dogood: An Installation by Miler Lagos" at Penn’s Arthur Ross Gallery
PHILADELPHIA — “Silence Dogood: An Installation by Miler Lagos,” which opens at the University of Pennsylvania’s Arthur Ross Gallery on Jan. 27, transforms nearly four tons of recycled newspapers into a sculpted “forest.”Contemporary Colombian multi-media artist Lagos will create this site-specific installation during his three-week residency as a Distinguished International Scholar, a grant awarded to the Gallery through the Office of the Provost at Penn.
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Penn Study Shows Antidepressants Work Best for Severe Depression, Provide Little to No Benefit Otherwise
PHILADELPHIA –- A study of 30 years of antidepressant-drug treatment data published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that the benefit of antidepressant medication compared with placebo may be minimal or nonexistent in patients with mild or moderate symptoms. University of Pennsylvania researchers say, however, the benefit of medications is substantial for patients with very severe depression.
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Penn Awarded Funding for Critical Zone Observatory Project
PHILADELPHIA –- Environmentalists from the University of Pennsylvania have been awarded a $4.35 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a Critical Zone Observatory in Puerto Rico.
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Genetic Study Led by University of Pennsylvania and Cornell Clarifies African and African-American Ancestry
PHILADELPHIA –- People who identify as African-American may be as little as 1 percent West African or as much as 99 percent, just one finding of a large-scale, genome-wide study of African and African-American ancestry released today.