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Public Safety Leaders from Penn and Other Area Campuses to Meet With Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey

Public Safety Leaders From Penn and Other Area Campuses to Meet With Police Commissioner Charles RamseyWHO: Maureen Rush, University Pennsylvania vice president for public safety and chair of the University City Public Safety Group Craig Carnaroli, Penn executive vice president Bernard Gollotti, University of the Sciences Philadelphia Jim Atkinson, Penn Medicine Security and Parking Randy Merced, Community College of Philadelphia Art Grover, LaSalle University Joe McBride, Holy Family University Jeffrey Baird, Philadelphia University

Lynn Marsden-Atlass Named Director of the Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania

PHILADELPHIA — Lynn Marsden-Atlass, senior curator of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, has been named director of the Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania, effective March 3. “This is a great day for Penn’s arts and culture community,” Penn Provost Ron Daniels said. “We are indeed fortunate to welcome to Penn a nationally known curator and educator with Lynn’s remarkable range of experience.”

Congressman Chakah Fattah Will Speak at Penn on Diversity in the Nursing Profession

PHILADELPHIA –- U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah will speak about the need for diversity in nursing, a profession in which 95 percent of registered nurses are white women and the median age is 45, on Monday, Feb. 11, from noon to 1 p.m. at the University of Pennsylvania.The seminar, sponsored by the Penn School of Nursing, will be held in the Bodeck Lounge of Houston Hall on the Penn campus.The event is free and open to the public.

Penn Selects SmithGroup as Architect for Neural and Behavioral Sciences Building

PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania has selected SmithGroup to design a new science facility that will integrate psychology, biology and behavioral sciences under one roof for teaching and research.

Penn Nursing Students Partner With Local High School to Evaluate Elementary Students' Health

PHILADELPHIA –- Students at West Philadelphia’s Sayre High School who are taking a health-education class have been working with University of Pennsylvania nurse practitioner students and Penn School of Nursing faculty to learn accurate growth and diabetes-risk-factor assessment.They are evaluating children in the Beacon after-school program at Sayre and providing nutrition education and a dance program designed to increase physical activity.

Penn President Amy Gutmann to Join Students in Signing RecycleMania Pledge Banner Wednesday

Lewis & Clark Revisted

WHAT: “Lewis and Clark Revisited: A Trail in Modern Day,” a traveling exhibition now on display at Penn Museum. The exhibit includes 60 black and white photographs taken by Greg Mac Gregor as he retraced Meriwether Lewis and Williams Clark’s historic 1804 voyage across the continent.

Truth & Reconciliation?

Thousands of Liberians have been trapped at Ghana’s Buduburam refugee camp since they fled their war-torn country in the 1990s. Recently, a group of students from Penn Law traveled to the camp to help these refugees get the word out about their struggles, both past and present. Since the Buduburam refugee camp opened in Ghana in 1991, 25,000 to 39,000 people have called it home.

A taste of winter

Three-year-old Julia Schenk, seen here on Locust Walk, doesn’t seem to mind the snow nearly as much as the rest of us. Photo credit: Mark Stehle

The Penn Science Café Presents: "Is the Climate Changing," with Dr. Benjamin Horton

WHO:Dr. Benjamin Horton, assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of PennsylvaniaWHAT:The Penn Science Café lecture series, free and open to the public, takes science out of the laboratory and treats it to a night on the town. The Café is your chance to ask a leading expert your questions about science. WHERE:Bubble House, 3404 Sansom St., PhiladelphiaWHEN: