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Fall cleanup

Groundskeeper Jose Colon prepares the hedges outside Fisher Fine Arts Library for the winter to come with some late-summer pruning. Photo credit: Mark Stehle

Morris Arboretum Breaking Ground Friday for Horticulture Center, Penn's First Platinum-Level LEED-Certified Building

New Fels director: 'This is just a perfect place for me to be.'

Photo credit: Candace diCarlo David Thornburgh, the new executive director of the Fels Institute of Government, describes himself as a huge fan of Penn founder Ben Franklin.

Early Days of Penn Football

Photo credit: University Archives The first college football game was played in 1869, when Princeton and Rutgers battled in New Brunswick, N.J.

MAGPI, Penn's Internet2 Connector, Enables Princeton Institutions to Access Global Sites at Lightning Speeds

PHILADELPHIA –- The University of Pennsylvania’s Internet2 regional connector, MAGPI, is providing high performance Internet connections for several institutions on Princeton University’s Forrestal Campus, including its Plasma Physics Lab and High Energy Physics Department as well as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.

Penn Students Gather to Watch Vice Presidential Debate

MEDIA ADVISORYPenn Students Gather to Watch Vice Presidential Debate WHO: University of Pennsylvania students WHAT: DebateWatch 2008WHEN: Thurs., Oct. 2, 2008 9-11 p.m.WHERE: Hill House dormitory Upper East Lounge 34th and Walnut streets

Cat mapping

A group of leading veterinary and genetic researchers from around the country recently announced that they had sequenced the genome of … a domestic cat. And though there are myriad reasons—some related to animal health, some to human health—why this massive project was undertaken in the first place, Penn’s Urs Giger says one stands out above the rest: People love their pets.

Optimism Experts Handicap the Presidential Election

PHILADELPHIA –- With less than six weeks until the general election, a University of Pennsylvania study analyzing the relative optimism of the 2008 presidential and vice presidential candidates has found Barack Obama and John McCain to be equally optimistic and Sarah Palin slightly more optimistic than Joseph Biden.

Penn Biophysicists Create New Model for Protein-Cholesterol Interactions in Brain and Muscle Tissue

PHILADELPHIA –- Biophysicists at the University of Pennsylvania have used 3,200 computer processors and long-established data on cholesterol’s role in the function of proteins to clarify the mysterious interaction between cholesterol and neurotransmitter receptors. The results provide a new model of behavior for the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, a well studied protein involved in inflammation, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, epilepsy, the effect of general anesthetics and addiction to alcohol, nicotine and cocaine.

Penn Presents Inaugural Symposium on Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

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