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Vaccine shortage puts Penn flu shot program in doubt
As you’ve probably heard by now, the flu vaccine is in short supply. Because of the unexpected shortfall, Penn may or may not run its flu shot program this year. As more information becomes available, Penn’s Human Resources department will keep our community updated.
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Voting rights for all?
During the manual recount and examination of Florida ballots from the 2000 Presidential election, late-night comedians and editorial cartoonists had a field day with jokes about aging Florida voters. One cartoon from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune went as far as to call some voters “confused, simple-instructions-challenged Florida retirees.”
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Faculty Q&A: Peggy Reeves Sanday
FACULTY Q&A/A renowned anthropologist searches for stories and meaning in the Australian desert. When Peggy Reeves Sanday began researching the sacred stories about Australia’s Wolfe Creek Crater—a crater discovered by her father in 1947—she found the Aborigines who live near the crater decidedly tight-lipped. To them, everything about the 2,850-foot-wide crater is sacred and secret. So Sanday, Penn’s R. Jean Brownlee Term Professor of Anthropology, had to find a way to both tell their story and respect their culture.
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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.
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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.
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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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Expert Comment on Potential Balloting Problems in the 2004 Presidential Election
Expert Comment on Potential Balloting Problems in the 2004 Presidential Electionfrom the University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolOct. 19, 2004Nathaniel Persily, a law and political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania, has researched and written widely about election law and voting rights.
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A is For Atom, Applied Knowledge: $5 Million Grant to Open Penn's Science Teacher Institute for Area Teachers
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania has received a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish the Penn Science Teacher Institute, where secondary and middle-level grade science teachers will take part in masters-level programs to improve their ability to teach science. The institute builds on Penn successful Master of Chemistry Education program, the first and only content-intensive science teacher-training degree program by a research university.
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Exhibition at Penn's Arthur Ross Gallery Marks 15 Years since the Fall of the Berlin Wall
PHILADELPHIA -- The German Democratic Republic disappeared more suddenly and more completely than any state in modern times. Beginning the weekend of Nov. 6, the 15th anniversary of those events, the Arthur Ross Gallery offers a visual recollection and a contribution to the understanding of that vanished state.
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Penn and Drexel Host Biomedical Engineering Society's Annual Meeting
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania Department of Bioengineering and Drexel University will host the annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society. The meeting, being held Oct. 13-16 in Philadelphia, focuses on the latest scientific, technical and ethical information from all areas of biomedical engineering.