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Penn’s Fox Leadership Program Partners With Girl Scouts for “Stand Up!” Leadership Workshop April 5

 WHO:Junior Girl Scouts from West and North PhiladelphiaFox Leadership Program at the University of Pennsylvania Girl Scouts at Penn ClubGirl Scouts of Eastern PennsylvaniaWHAT:“Stand Up!” leadership, self-esteem and self-defense workshopWHERE:Irvine Auditorium, 3401 Spruce St.WHEN:  WHO:

Penn Engineering Awarded $7.5 Million to Advance Emerging Field of Network Science

PHILADELPHIA –- The University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science has received a $7.5 million, five-year grant to improve basic understanding of network science, an emerging field of research seeking the unifying principles that govern the diverse networks that make up the economic, political and social cores of the 21st century. From Facebook and the Internet to gene regulatory networks and financial markets, there is rapidly growing demand for new knowledge to analyze, design and operate next-generation networks.

Standard & Poor's Raises Penn's Debt Rating to AA+

PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania now has the highest credit rating it has ever had. Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has raised the University’s debt rating to AA+ from AA, while also assigning an AA+/A-1+ rating to the Pennsylvania Higher Educational Facilities Authority's series A of 2008 revenue bonds issued for Penn. These upgrades reflect an improving balance sheet and sustained positive financial performance, bolstered by good financial performance at the University and at its Health System, rated at AA-/Stable.

Trustees' Council of Penn Women to Honor Former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor With Beacon Award

WHAT: The Trustees’ Council of Penn Women will present the Beacon Award to former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. The Beacon Award recognizes an outstanding person or institution that has taken the lead in furthering the advancement of women, through dedicated pursuit of and commitment to issues affecting women, with results that enhance the status of women.WHO:

Field Center Symposium at Penn Addresses Accountability, Return on Investment in Child Welfare

WHO: Dr. Fred Wulczyn, research fellow, Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago, where he directs the Center for State Foster Care and Adoption Data. From 2006 to 2007, he served on Philadelphia Mayor John Street’s Child Welfare Review Panel. His recent writings focus on racial disparities in the foster-care system, adoption in the post-Adoption and Safe Families Act era and fiscal reform. He is the author of “Beyond Common Sense: Child Welfare, Child Well-Being and the Evidence for Policy Reform.” WHAT:

Penn Researcher Explores a Lost Port City of the Mycenaeans in the Region of the Trojan War

PHILADELPHIA –- Along an isolated stretch of the eastern shoreline of Greece, a University of Pennsylvania classics professor and his colleagues are unlocking the secrets of a partially submerged “lost” harbor town believed to have been built by the Mycenaeans 3,500 years ago.

Penn to Hold Fourth Annual Criminology Day April 4

Treatment for addiction-- in its many forms

World-renowned addiction expert Charles O’Brien, of Penn’s Charles O’Brien Center for Addiction Treatment, says addiction is a “physical change in the brain” that causes “compulsive drug-seeking behavior.”

Q&A: Adrian Raine

Photo credit:Candace diCarlo People from all across the political spectrum have their problems with Adrian Raine.

ATLAS to recreate the Big Bang

Penn researchers have played a key role in the development of the ATLAS particle collider in Switzerland. ATLAS will essentially recreate the Big Bang, millions of times each second. Everything about the ATLAS experiment is big. Everything.