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Ask Benny: What are summer hours for facilities?

Dear Benny, I’m a workout fanatic, and I usually prefer to hit the gym after work. But with summer approaching, does Pottruck have shorter hours? Am I going to have to start working out in the morning? Also, are other Penn facilities adjusting their hours for the summer?—Gym Rat

Words to the wise: Commencement ’05

Penn assistant professor of earth and environmental science Ben Horton spent three weeks this spring in Malaysia with a Penn-led multinational team of scientists seeking to better understand the causes and effects of the Indian Ocean Tsunami of December 26, 2004.

At Work With...Scott McNulty

West Philadelphia Students Promote Healthy Living at "Eat to Live" Celebration

WHO: Students from University City High School, Drew     Elementary School and Sayre Middle School; staff of Penn's Urban Nutrition InitiativeWHAT:Food, games, crafts, entertainers (musicians, jugglers, etc.) will be on hand to celebrate healthy eating and living and the success of the Urban Nutrition Initiative's partnership with the schools.WHEN:Thursday, June 9, Noon - 4:30 p.m.WHERE:University City High School, 36th and Filbert streets

Expert Comment on the U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on the Medical Use of Marijuana

Expert Comment on the U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on the Medical Use of Marijuanafrom the University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolJune 6, 2005Theodore Ruger, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, teaches, researches and writes about constitutional law and health law."This ruling marks the end of the Court's expansive federalism jurisprudence of the late 1990s.  This case stands as one of a few recent ones to indicate that, in a post-9/11world, the Court is more supportive of strong centralized national

Penn Science Cafe: Tales of the Dinosaur Hunter

WHAT: The Penn Science Cafe, the lecture series open to the public that takes science out of the laboratory and treats it to a night on the town.  The Penn Science Cafe can be your chance to ask your questions directly to leading experts. WHO: Peter Dodson, professor of anatomy, Penn's School of Veterinary Medicine, and professor of geology, Penn's School of Arts and SciencesWHERE:  The MarBar   40th and Walnut streets, PhiladelphiaWHEN:6 p.m., Monday, May 23

Breastfeeding Advocates Help Communities Latch onto A Good Idea

PHILADELPHIA -- In a city where barely 20 % of impoverished women breastfeed, changing attitudes toward breastfeeding has become a matter of course for students from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Since 1995, Nursing 361 has required students to take part in a community advocacy program of their own design. This month in the Journal of Human Lactation, the course's instructor offers guidelines for others to conduct such projects, as well as a model to demonstrate how advocacy can change communities.

Penn Robotics Lab Receives $5 Million Grant to Develop Robot Swarms from MARS

PHILADELPHIA -- Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have received a $5 million grant from the Department of Defense to develop large-scale "swarms" of robots that could work together to thoroughly search large areas from the ground and sky.    The Scalable Swarms of Autonomous Robots and Sensors or the Swarms Project, as it is known takes organizational cues from the natural world where tens or even hundreds of small, independent robots work together to accomplish specific tasks, such as finding a bomb in a crowded city.

Movable Feast: Drinking in the summer sun

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Eating after dark

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