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Penn's Field Center Hosts Documentary Film Festival on Child Abuse, Part of National Child-Welfare Conference
PHILADELPHIA - The winners have been announced in the University of Pennsylvania's Field Center for Children's Policy, Practice & Research's documentary film contest, a part of National Child Abuse Prevention month. A panel of expert judges, including producers from CNN, the Greater Philadelphia Film Office and award-winning documentary filmmakers, judged the high school and college submissions.
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Penn Nursing's LIFE Program for Seniors Opens Facility That's Gone from Community Eyesore to Asset
WHAT: The grand opening of a new facility for the Living Independently for Elders, or LIFE program, a community outreach of the School of Nursing of the University of Pennsylvania. LIFE provides nursing home-level day care, including medical, dental and personal grooming services and social activities, for more than 300 frail elderly from West Philadelphia who are nursing home-eligible but prefer to live in their own homes. The LIFE staff also make house calls, providing in-home oversight to members.
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Jacki Mowery
The Current Staff Photo credit: Mark Stehle WHO SHE IS : Admissions Coordinator, Office of International Programs TIME AT PENN : A year and a half
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2nd-term York mayor finishing up Fels degree
Most mayors won’t face in their entire terms what John Brenner had to deal with in just his first week heading up the city of York, Pa.
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And the pitch ...
Penn senior Steve Balcerski pitches to batter Chase Park. Park, who was visiting from Emory University, joined Balcerski for a game of wiffle ball on College Green. Photo credit: Mark Stehle
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Penn Club
Photo credit: University Archives Penn’s Club of New York opened, in 1900, in four ground-floor rooms in the Royalton Hotel.
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Lessons on winning, in sports and business
Running a professional sports franchise isn’t all that different from running a large company: In sports, as in business, teams must make money to survive. But owners of sports franchises face one expectation that most Fortune 500 CEOs don’t: Besides posting profits, they’ve got to win championships, too.
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The Penn Science Café Presents: \"Recall! Lifting the Pet Food Fog\"
WHO: Kathryn E. Michel, chief, Section of Medicine School of Veterinary Medicine, University of PennsylvaniaWHAT: The Penn Science Caf lecture series, free and open to the public, takes science out of the laboratory and treats it to a night on the town. The Caf is your chance to ask leading experts your questions about science.WHERE: The MarBar, 40th and Walnut streets, PhiladelphiaWHEN: Tuesday, May 15, 6 p.m.Doors open at 5:30 p.m.Menu items are available for purchase.
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Books Through Bars
What: Books Through Bars is a volunteer-run organization that provides books and other reading material to prisoners. Every month Books Through Bars receives around 1,300 letters from inmates requesting books and the organization sends out an average of 900 packages—with 3 to 4 books in each. Books Through Bars also serves prison libraries, supplying them with regular donations of books.
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Looking for answers
Already this year, more than 100 people have been killed on the streets of Philadelphia, outpacing last year’s grim toll and bringing the city national attention as a hotbed of urban violence. Eighty percent of these murders were carried out with handguns, and many of the shooters, as well as the victims, have criminal records.