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Out & About: Rebuilding pride on Baltimore
Baltimore Avenue is a busy place. With trolleys rattling up and down the street every few minutes and a steady stream of car traffic, this is one of the most traveled arteries in the city. The stretch between 45th and 50th streets has also become something of an urban hub, with eclectic restaurants and African boutiques amid the usual lineup of laundromats, barbershops and cell phone vendors.
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"Master Drawings (1800-1914) from the Ashmolean Museum" on Display at the Arthur Ross Gallery
PHILADELPHIA -- "Master Drawings (1800-1914) from the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford," will be on display April 16 through June 27 at the Arthur Ross Gallery, 220 S. 34th St., Philadelphia.The Arthur Ross Gallery is open Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Saturday-Sunday, noon-5 p.m. Exhibitions are free and open to the public."Master Drawings (1800-1914) from the Ashmolean Museum" features 51 drawings and watercolors from many of the 19th century's most prominent artists, including Degas, Cezanne, Pissaro, Rodin, Tissot and Ruskin.
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Memories Are Harder to Forget Than Currently Thought
PHILADELPHIA -- While it might not seem so the next time you go searching for your car keys, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have shown that memories are not as fluid as current research suggests. Their findings challenge the prevailing notion on how memories are stored and remembered or that a recalled memory could be altered or lost as it is "re-remembered."
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Surgeon General Richard Carmona to Speak at Penn
U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona to Speak at PennWHO:U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona WHAT:University of Pennsylvania Nursing SchoolDean's Lecture Series, "Health Disparities and Health Literacy: Making the Connections, Answering the Challenge" WHEN:March 22, 2004, 4-5 p.m.WHERE:University of Pennsylvania campusBiomedical Research Building II/III Auditorium421 Curie Blvd.
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Recording Artist/Activist Bono to Deliver Commencement Address at University of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA -- Bono, lead singer and songwriter for the rock group U2 and a social-justice activist, will speak at the 248th Commencement of the University of Pennsylvania May 17.In addition to the critical and popular success of his recording and touring activities with U2, Bono co-founded the organization Debt AIDS Trade Africa in 2002 together with activists from the Jubilee 2000 Drop the Debt campaign. DATA's main objective is to raise public awareness and action in the United States and other wealthy nations against AIDS and poverty in Africa.
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“Before and After” Diet Ads Promote Bias Against Overweight People
PHILADELPHIA -- A particular form of diet advertisement -- the "before and after" ad -- can reinforce negative feelings about the obese and perpetuate damaging stereotypes, according to a study led by a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. The findings, published in the current issue of Eating and Weight Disorders, demonstrate that "before and after" ads promote an unreasonable perception of the controllability of weight, thereby reinforcing a prevailing bias toward the obese.
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Penn Urban Research Institute to Specialize in Urban Issues
PHILADELPHIA -- University of Pennsylvania President Judith Rodin announced the creation of the Penn Urban Research Institute, which will specialize in urban issues, during a March 4 address at the Penn School of Design. The Penn Urban Research Institute will be an umbrella structure that will integrate and coordinate the research, education and practice of experts in urbanism from the University's 12 schools.
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Penn Graduate School of Education Names New Vice Dean
PHILADELPHIA -- Doug Lynch has been named vice dean for graduate admissions and executive education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.In his new position, Lynch will oversee admissions policies for GSE traditional and non-traditional programs and will assist faculty in the development of executive model and continuing education programs.
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Penn Professors Paul Hendrickson and Susan Stewart Win National Book Critics Circle Awards
PHILADELPHIA - University of Pennsylvania English professors Paul Hendrickson and Susan Stewart have each won the prestigious National Book Critics Circle award. Hendrickson's "Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and its Legacy" won the prize for best nonfiction book of 2003 and Stewart's "Columbarium" won for best book of poetry of the year. The announcement came at the National Book Critics Circle's 30th anniversary awards ceremony in New York March 4.
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Richard M. Leventhal Named Director of Penn Museum
PHILADELPHIA- Richard M. Leventhal, an internationally recognized scholar in Mesoamerican studies, has been named the Williams Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Penn President Judith Rodin and Penn Provost Robert Barchi announced today. "I am delighted that Richard will be joining us," said Rodin. "His proven leadership and bold vision for the future will help strengthen the Museum's three-fold mission of education, research and the preservation of cultural artifacts from around the world."