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Student Spotlight: Brianne Blakey

MADAM PRESIDENT: Blakey, a Doylestown native and Wharton junior, is president of the Penn chapter of Amnesty International, a human rights organization. “It was something that appealed to me as a way to learn about human rights problems around the world,” she says.

The Scientific Society

Photo credit: University Archives An ambitious group of Penn undergrads founded The Scientific Society in the fall of 1882 with the goal of promoting “scientific and literary subjects [which] would be a benefit to ourselves and other students in this University.”

Images of Nigeria

  WHAT: “Kings, Chiefs and Women of Power: Images from Nigeria,” a new exhibit at the Arthur Ross Gallery. The show features 30 large-format Cibachrome prints by photographer Phyllis Galembo, who collected the photos while traveling around southern Nigeria in 1993-1994, studying the costumes, customs and traditions of the Benin people. The show also includes 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century century Benin Kingdom “prestige objects” on loan from the Penn Museum.

Penn Hosts Junior Girl Scouts at GUTS: Girls Understanding Technology and Science Day

Staff Q&A/Debra Schilling Wolfe

Photo credit: Mark Stehle Debra Schilling Wolfe has spent the past three decades working in child welfare. She’s seen the worst of what society has to offer.

Skin color can mask rape injuries

After a group of emergency department nurses at the University of Cincinnati decided they wanted to set up a sexual assault forensic program, they asked their colleague, Marilyn S. Sommers, an expert in the area of injury, for help in writing a grant and securing the necessary funds.

Obama and the Supreme Court

  The theme of “change” dominated the successful campaign of President-Elect Barack Obama. But according to two Penn experts, there is at least one facet of government that Obama might have some trouble changing: The Supreme Court.

Penn Engineering, Central High School Celebrate $30,000 Donation of Equipment for New Engineering Class

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Canine therapy

Faculty, staff and students from Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine dressed up their dogs to celebrate Halloween with children at the Philadelphia Ronald McDonald House. Here, 10 year-old Rebecca and Ronald McDonald House volunteer Amy Newman play with Taylor, a lab/golden retriever mix. Photo credit: Mark Stehle

Penn Physicist Phil Nelson to Receive 2009 Emily M. Gray Award From Biophysical Society

PHILADELPHIA –- University of Pennsylvania physicist Philip Nelson has been awarded the 2009 Emily M. Gray Award from the Biophysical Society. The award is the international professional organization’s top honor for education and outreach.