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Not-so-secret
One of the best things about being a film buff in Philadelphia is Secret Cinema, a series for those of us who embrace and enjoy so-called “low-brow” cinematic entertainment. In Secret Cinema’s 15-year history, founder Jay Schwartz has screened travelogues, educational films, war propaganda movies and short films about hot rods, just to name a few. On Oct. 14 at 8 p.m., International House gives film fans the chance to see “The Secret Secret Cinema,” with films from the series’ 35mm collection that haven’t seen a projector in years.
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Spiegelman: 'Keep your day job'
Top Stories Stem cell debate hits Penn Penn docs offer help in Gulf
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‘It was unimaginable’
VETERINARY MEDICINE/A Penn Vet School professor joins FEMA team in Gulf. During her bus ride into the Katrina-ravaged areas of Mississippi’s Gulf Coast region early this month, Cynthia Otto says it was hard to grasp the extent of the devastation: In the dead of night, with no power throughout the region, she simply couldn’t see what the storm had done.
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Staff Q&A: William Kopycki
When the nonprofit organization Online Computer Library Center called up William Kopycki and asked him to lead a training session for Iraqi librarians in Amman, Jordan, the Middle East Studies librarian didn’t hesitate. Kopycki immediately got on the phone with colleagues from the United Arab Emirates and Egypt to ask for their help training 13 Iraqi librarians in computerized cataloging techniques—the first instruction of its kind to be taught exclusively in Arabic.
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Gutmann joins forces with FBI
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Penn to host first 'NanoDay'
Small technology is big this October. It’s been designated as Nano Month, and a host of activities has been designed to get the Penn community and Philadelphia audiences excited about, well, the small stuff. That is, the small stuff known as nanotechnology—technological advances on a nanoscale (or molecular level) that have the potential to change the way in which we do business, how we care for people in the medical fields and how we use technology.
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For The Record: Animal Locomotion
Columns Ask Benny: Is our William Pepper that William Pepper? Out and About: A music club to love
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Remaking Penn Museum
Q&A/Penn Museum’s new director wants the world—and Penn—to flock to his galleries, not just because of the mummies, but because the museum is a hot bed of brand new ideas in archaeology and anthropology.
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At Work With...Brooke Duffy
WHO SHE IS: Assistant Director, Donor Relations, School of Arts and Sciences. YEARS AT PENN: 2 1/2 WHAT SHE DOES: Duffy’s area of responsibility is stewardship. Specifically, she writes to donors to update them on what has been done with their financial gift. That includes reporting on scholarships and fellowships, as well as special institutes and projects, such as the recent renovation of Bennett Hall.
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Stem cell debate hits Penn
Top Stories Stem cell debate hits Penn Penn docs offer help in Gulf