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Annenberg Foundation Awards $32.5 Million to Penn for New Policy Center Building and Humanities Chair

PHILADELPHIA--The University of Pennsylvania has received a $30 million gift, with $22 million from the Annenberg Foundation of Radnor, Pa., and $8 million from the Annenberg Trust at Sunnylands, to construct a building that will adjoin the Annenberg School for Communication and house the School's Annenberg Public Policy Center, Penn President Amy Gutmann announced today at the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Center at Penn.

Christopher Patusky Named Executive Director of Fels Institute of Government at Penn

PHILADELPHIA-- Christopher Patusky has been named executive director of the 67-year-old Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania.Patusky advances to the position after almost three years as deputy director of the Institute and director of several major funded projects totaling some $1.5 million.  His most recent grant of $250,000 from the Carnegie Corporation will support Fels students working with MSNBC at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia to monitor Election Day complaints about voting rights violations across the nation.

Penn Students "Trick or Treat" at President Amy Gutmann's House

Penn Students "Trick or Treat" at President Amy Gutmann's HouseWHO:Amy Gutmann, University of Pennsylvania president, Penn studentsWHAT:Penn students trick or treating WHEN:Oct. 31, 20047-8 p.m.WHERE:Eisenlohr, the Penn president's home3812 Walnut St.Dr. Amy Gutmann will be dressed in costume as she greets trick-or-treaters at her home and hands out goodies.  Students and the Penn community will be dropping in and having hot chocolate and treats with Dr. Gutmann

Penn Graduate Students and Bipartisan Analysts to Examine Election Day Voting Irregularities at the Polls

PHILADELPHIA-- Graduate students from the University of Pennsylvania's Fels Institute of Government and a bipartisan team of analysts will examine Election Day voting irregularities at the polls with NBC News broadcasting reports on their analysis.A toll-free national voter alert telephone line will allow voters around the country to quickly report voting problems to local election officials.

Racial Equity, Education Access and the Achievement Gap Topics of Oct. 28-29 Penn Symposium

PHILADELPHIA -- On Oct. 28-29, the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania will convene "Equity and Race in a Democratic Society," a symposium focusing on the inequality within communities and schools and the inequities in private and public institutions serving minority and poor children and families, social problems that have persisted despite Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Act.  The event will be at the Inn at Penn, 3600 Sansom St. in Philadelphia.

Penn Social Work Professor Named President of International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies

PHILADELPHIA -- Richard Estes, a University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work professor, has been elected president of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies.

Music to their ears...and eyes

Penn’s on-campus radio station, WXPN, has always had a loyal family of fans drawn to the stationís progressive blend of rock, folk, rhythm and blues and American roots. Since it began broadcasting in the 1940s, though, WXPN has operated out of the lowliest of digs, a series of retrofitted campus buildings more suitable for a fraternity than a major radio station.

New garden ready to take root at Morris Arboretum

What better way to remember a plant lover than to design a garden in his honor? That was the thinking behind the J.L. Pennock Garden, currently under construction between the Garden Railway and the Rose Garden at Penn’s Morris Arboretum. J. Liddon Pennock, in whose memory the garden is being created and whose endowment gift to the Arboretum will help maintain it, died last spring at the age of 90. For most of his life, he ran the family business, a Center City flower shop that provided floral decorations for countless society weddings as well as the Nixon White House.

Out & About: Tune in to the issues

The legal issues that captivate our country range from women’s rights to the role of religion in elections, gay marriage to national security, campaign finance reform to medical malpractice. And there’s one forum that ensures a lively, provocative discussion from experts on both sides of an issue—without the yelling and name-calling. That forum is "Justice Talking," the radio show produced by the Annenberg Public Policy Center that airs on National Public Radio (Mondays at 10 p.m. on WHYY-91 FM).

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