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Omar Blaik announces his resignation as Senior Vice President of Facilities and Real Estate Services
The following memo was sent by President Amy Gutmann on February 16, 2006: It is with considerable regret that I announce Omar Blaik's resignation as Senior Vice President of Facilities and Real Estate Services effective March 31, 2006. Omar is launching a community and urban development venture focusing on urban universities nationwide. He plans to base his new firm in Philadelphia.
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$5M for improved campus security
Penn President Amy Gutmann, along with Provost Ronald Daniels and EVP Craig Carnaroli, has announced a new $5 million commitment to enhance the safety of our campus and surrounding community. That amount is in addition to the $2 million supplemental resources previously authorized this fiscal year. “The safety of our students, faculty and staff continues to be our number one priority,” said Gutmann.
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Here comes the blushing—and bargaining—bride
BOOK/Wharton prof tells brides-to-be how to avoid paying too much for their wedding day.
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Discovering Darwin
“The Origin of the Species” is one of the most famous books ever written. But how many of us have actually read Charles Darwin’s masterwork? Not enough, according to Penn Museum Director Richard Leventhal and his colleagues, who have put together a “Darwin Day” featuring short teach-in talks to familiarize us with the famous naturalist and his groundbreaking theory of evolution.
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Katrina and race
There’s a difference between something being racial and it being racist, according to Michael Eric Dyson, Penn’s Avalon Professor of Humanities. The government’s sluggish and inadequate response to the stranded, hungry and scared flood victims of Hurricane Katrina, he says, was racial, but not overtly racist. “There is a difference between active malaise and passive indifference,” he told a crowd at the Penn Bookstore on Jan. 20. “This government believes that government is the enemy of the people.”
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Movable Feast: Pod
By THE CURRENT STAFF For all of West Philly’s food charms—from great hoagie shops to authentic corner taverns, superb ethnic dining to convenient food trucks—it was only when Pod arrived in 2001 that University City finally had a cutting-edge eatery to call its own. And Pod certainly fills that niche.
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Fels Institute of Government at Penn Launches Undergraduate Washington Internship Program
PHILADELPHIA--The College of Arts and Sciences, the Office of Career Services and the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania have launched the new Washington Internship Program. Based at Fels, the program will help undergraduate students at Penn select and apply for government and private-sector summer internships in Washington, D.C.
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Annenberg School for Communication Receives $10 Million for Global Communication from Annenberg Foundation
PHILADELPHIA- The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania will receive a $10 million endowment from the Annenberg Foundation of St. Davids, Pa. The funding is in support of The Project for Global Communication Studies, which was established in 2004 at the Annenberg School, to expand and coordinate its work in international, global and comparative communication research and studies.
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Expert Comment on Student Financial Aid
Bill Schilling, director of Student Financial Aid at the University of Pennsylvania since 1980, is available to comment on trends in student assistance nationally, including public policy issues under consideration in Washington."Financial aid is experiencing some difficult times," Schilling said. "I, like many others in higher education, am concerned about what seems to be a lessening of a national commitment to need-based aid as a means of ensuring that talented students from all economic backgrounds have the opportunity for a four-year college education.