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PennSound: All the Free Poetry You Care to Download
PHILADELPHIA-- The recording industry may not want anyone downloading music without paying for it, but a new project at the University of Pennsylvania encourages downloading right to MP3 players and hard drives all the poetry a listener might want. And it's all free for the asking.
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Expert Comment on the Dover, Pa School Board Plan to Include Intelligent Design in Its Curriculum
Expert Comment on the Dover, Pa., School Board Plan to Include Intelligent Design in Its Curriculumfrom the University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolJan. 4, 2005Theodore Ruger, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, teaches, researches and writes about constitutional law.
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The Penn Science Café Lecture Series Presents: Gene Warfare
The Penn Science Cafe Lecture Series Presents:"Gene Warfare: Genomics in the Fight Against Emerging Disease" WHAT: The Penn Science Cafe, a new lecture series, open to the public and free, that takes science out of the laboratory and treats it to a night on the town. WHO: David Roos, professor of biology and director of Penn Genomics Institute, hosts an evening of science and conversation.WHERE: The MarBar 40th and Walnut streets, Philadelphia
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Penn Business Services Names Ralph Maier Director of Purchasing Services
PHILADELPHIA -- Penn Business Services Division today announced that Ralph Maier has been promoted to director of Purchasing Services. Maier, who served as the department assistant director since 1990, will now lead all internal and external business processes to facilitate Penn almost $700 million in annual purchases.
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Your Brain and You: Penn Researcher Forecasts Ethical Challenges Ahead for Neuroscience and Society
PHILADELPHIA -- Are we ready for a future where brain scans invade our private thoughts? Will we have to alter our brains chemically to keep competitive at our jobs? Could science determine that "souls" do not exist, and, if so, what does that mean for how we think of ourselves as human beings?
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Gibson Named Vice President for Budget and Management Analysis at Penn
PHILADELPHIA -- Bonnie C. Gibson has been appointed vice president for budget and management analysis at the University of Pennsylvania. Gibson had been serving as the acting executive director for that department since January 2003.
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Penn Announces Vice President of Finance/Treasurer
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania has appointed Scott R. Douglass vice president for finance and treasurer. He currently serves as senior associate dean for finance and administration of Penn's Wharton School.
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Penn Report Challenges View that U.S. Students Are Losing Ground Internationally
PHILADELPHIA -- An analysis of major international achievement surveys since 1990 shows that, while the U.S. may not be first in the world in terms of education, U.S. students generally perform above average, according to Erling Boe, a professor in the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education.Among the biggest problems with many international surveys is the fact that they make inaccurate or unfair comparisons, Boe said.
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Penn Presents A Shocking Display For The Holidays: Electricity and Magnetism Demo for Area Students
WHAT: The 8th Annual University of Pennsylvania Physics Demonstration Show for area high school students. WHO: Santa Claus and the staff of the physics demonstration lab at Penn Department of Physics and Astronomy. WHERE: University of Pennsylvania, David Rittenhouse Laboratory, Lecture Hall A1, 33rd & Walnut Streets, PhiladelphiaWHEN: 9:30 1:30 a.m. and 12:00 2:00 p.m., Monday, Dec. 1312:00 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 14
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Diet for a dysfunctional planet
At the age of three, Anna Lappé accompanied her mother—“Diet for a Small Planet” author Francis Moore Lappé—on a research trip to Guatemala. Mother and daughter have taken many trips since then, including a journey round the world to explore food systems, hunger and poverty. That odyssey led in 2002 to “Hope’s Edge,” a sequel of sorts to “Small Planet.”