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Long-Term Effects of Embryo Culture on Behavior Studied
PHILADELPHIA -- According to scientists at the University of Pennsylvania, culturing mouse embryos under suboptimal conditions before implantation can effect how the offspring perform in behavioral assays that assess anxiety and memory. The findings will be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, which is available online now.
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Penn Professor's "Encyclopedia of Food and Culture" Wins Four Major Book Awards
PHILADELPHIA -- The "Encyclopedia of Food and Culture," a historical, cultural and scientific work edited by Solomon Katz, a professor of anthropology in the Department of Orthodontics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, has received four major book honors.
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Penn Dental School Observing "Give Kids a Smile Day" Feb. 6
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine will provide free oral health care Feb. 6 to hundreds of children from West Philadelphia as part of "Give Kids a Smile," a children's dental access event sponsored nationally by the American Dental Association and locally by the Pennsylvania Dental Association.
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Jesse Jackson to Speak at University of Pennsylvania
Jesse Jackson to Speak at University of Pennsylvania WHO:Jesse JacksonMichael Eric Dyson, Penn professor of Humanities and ReligiousStudiesTukufu Zuberi, director of Penn's Center for Africana Studies WHAT:A conversation about the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. WHEN:Jan. 22, 2004, 5:30 p.m. WHERE:University of PennsylvaniaIrvine Auditorium34th and Spruce streets
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Evelyn Y. Davis Gives $100,000 to Penn for Scholarship
PHILADELPHIA -- Evelyn Y. Davis, a nationally recognized advocate for shareholder rights, and the Evelyn Y. Davis Foundation have contributed $100,000 to the University of Pennsylvania to endow a scholarship for students pursuing careers in business or political journalism. Her gift will be recognized with a brass plaque in the lobby of Houston Hall, Penn student center.
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Martin Luther King Community Involvement Awards
Martin Luther King Jr. Community Involvement Awards at the University of PennsylvaniaWHO:Judith Rodin, Penn presidentCheryl Townsend Gilkes, professor of African-American Studies, Colby CollegeWHAT:Community Involvement Awards and Interfaith Program,"Achieving Social Justice in Our Time"WHEN:Jan. 21, 2004, 7 p.m.WHERE:University of PennsylvaniaBodek Lounge, Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce St.
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Deck the walls with stones and ivy
No one is quite sure why ivy became synonymous with academia, but we know when Penn’s ivy traditions began—in 1873, the year the University moved to West Philadelphia. If early photographs are accurate, the campus looks barren and windswept and the urge to plant the evergreen vine, genus Hedera, seems inspired.
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UPM gets Civic Center treasures
When Ginny Greene and her colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology opened boxes from the Civic Center Museum, they found items as wildly diverse as coconuts, fibers and textiles nestled side by side. The variety was staggering. Now, months after hand-selecting which items from the Civic Center Museum collection to incorporate into the Museum’s own, Senior Conservator Greene is working with Registrar Xiuqin Zhou and keepers from different sections on an object-by-object inventory, cataloguing and organizing the newly acquired items.
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From minor towards major
The School of Arts and Sciences’ long dream of establishing a cinema studies major has taken one giant step forward with the addition of Timothy Corrigan, professor of English, to the faculty this past fall. As the new director of the Film Studies Program in the College, Corrigan will be the primary person responsible for the crafting of the major, which will draw on SAS faculty already engaged in the study of film. “There are a variety of faculty from other departments involved in film studies, and we’re all working to expand its presence at Penn,” he said.
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How Penn lives the dream
The annual candlelight march and vigil celebrates Martin Luther King’s commitment to peace. “Penn’s Commitment to the Legacy: Achieving Social Justice in Our Time” is the theme for this year’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Symposium, which runs from Jan. 19 through Jan. 30.