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Penn's Shu Yang Named a "Top Young Innovator"
PHILADELPHIA -- Shu Yang of the University of Pennsylvania has been named to the 2004 list of the world 100 Top Young Innovators by Technology Review, a publication of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The "TR100," chosen by the editors of Technology Review and an elite panel of judges, consists of people younger than 35 whose innovative work in technology has a profound impact on today world.
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Clark Enterprises Endows Chair at Penn Institute for Urban Research Honoring a University Alumnus
PHILADELPHIA -- Clark Enterprises Inc. has given $2 million to the University of Pennsylvania to create and endow the Lawrence C. Nussdorf Chair at the University newly created Penn Institute for Urban Research. The gift honors Lawrence Nussdorf, a University trustee and Graduate School of Education overseer who is president and chief operating officer at Clark Enterprises the Maryland-based parent company of The Clark Construction Group, one of the nation's largest general contractors.
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9/11 Search-and-Rescue Dogs Exhibit Few Effects from Exposure to Disaster Sites
PHILADELPHIA -- The search-and-rescue dogs deployed following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have not suffered either immediate or short-term effects from exposure to the disaster sites, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine report. The findings, presented in the Sept. 15 issue of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, should help relieve fears about the after-effects of working at the 9/11 sites.
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Gutmann to Discuss, Sign Books at Penn Bookstore
WHO: Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania.WHAT: A discussion and signing for the books "Why Deliberative Democracy?" and "Identity in Democracy," two works on components of the American political process by Amy Gutmann. WHEN: 7 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 23WHERE: Penn Bookstore, 36th and Walnut streets, Philadelphia. All events at the Penn Bookstore are free and open to the public.
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Conference Aims to Fire Up the Youth Vote at Penn
WHO: Activists from national student, political and civic engagement groups; elected official and University of Pennsylvania studentsWHAT: "Taking Back the Vote" SymposiumWHEN: Noon to 5 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2004 WHERE: Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce St.
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Modeling lab gets new digs
This summer the Cartographic Modeling Laboratory (CML) settled into a new home on the second floor of the School of Social Work’s Caster Building. The move, from cramped quarters in Meyerson Hall, gives CML’s staff more room to breathe as well as vital space for the computing technology that drives its data-gathering, mapping and analyzing work. It also underscores how much this interdisciplinary initiative has grown.
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Museum lion gets nip and tuck
When Penn Museum’s main entrance courtyard reopens late this fall, visitors won’t notice any dramatic changes. A few unruly magnolia trees will be gone, and tidy, low hedges will better define the formal landscaping. But much will be the same, including the majestic marble urns and mischievous bronze satyr that have welcomed Museum-goers for half a century. The reflecting pool will be back, too, though the marble coping around it will be new. The pool’s lion’s head fountain will also be new. Sort of.
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Digging through trash to find history
For Robert Schuyler and his students, one town’s trash is their archaeological treasure. Associate Curator of Penn Museum’s Historical Archaeology section, Schuyler has been working with his students for the last three years to unearth garbage from the not-so-distant past.
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Bookquick/“I’m the Teacher, You’re the Student: A Semester in the University Classroom”
What is it really like to be a college professor in an American classroom today? An award-winning teacher with more than 20 years of experience answers this question with an enlightening and entertaining behind-the-scenes view of a typical semester in his American history course. The result—part diary, part sustained reflection—recreates both the unstudied realities and intensely satisfying challenges that teachers encounter in university lecture halls.