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Chief of Navy Chaplains to Speak at Penn Baccalaureate

PHILADELPHIA  Rear Adm. Barry C. Black, chief of chaplains in the United States Navy, will be this years Baccalaureate speaker at the University of Pennsylvania. The Baccalaureate Ceremony will be held Sunday, May 18, in Irvine Auditorium, 3401 Spruce St., Philadelphia.

Penn Presents Panel Discussion on Race and the Business of Sports on Opening Day of Penn Relays

WHO: John Carlos, 1968 Olympic bronze medalist Keven Davis, attorney for Venus and Serena Williams and othersMichael Eric Dyson, author and professor of humanities and African-American studies at the University of Pennsylvania Tina Sloan Green, first African-American head coach of intercollegiate women's lacrosse, professor of education at Temple University

Penn Professor Honored as Homeless Advocate

PHILADELPHIA -- Dennis Culhane, professor of social welfare policy at the University of Pennsylvania, has received the John W. Macy Award from the National Alliance to End Homelessness for his individual leadership. Culhane won the award for his research on the causes of homelessness and for his advocacy of possible solutions. His efforts have had a profound effect on the way homelessness is approached by policy-makers nationwide, according to the Alliance. He has spurred the development of programs designed to solve homelessness by tracking the use of homelessness systems.

Alumni Gift Enables University of Pennsylvania to Create Umbrella Student Disabilities Services Program

PHILADELPHIA -- A $1 million gift from 1970 Wharton graduate Jeffrey Weingarten and his wife Susan to the University of Pennsylvania will enable Penn to build on its services to students with additional needs.

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Americans filled with spirit, survey finds

In these times of crisis—political, economic, and emotional—Americans have shown a remarkable commitment to faith and spirituality, according to a new study from researchers at Penn, the Gallup Organization and the George H. Gallup International Institute.

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Return to Tikal

The 21st Annual Maya Weekend at the University of Pennsylvania Museum focuses on the Museum’s excavations at Tikal, one of the largest and most important of all Maya cities. The weekend conference features the first public presentation of the Tikal Digital Access Project, which, when completed, will make an archive of more than half a million archaeological records accessible to scholars and Maya enthusiasts around the world.

Eliot Spitzer, N.Y. Attorney General to Speak on Corporate Governance and Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania

WHO: Eliot Spitzer, New York State Attorney GeneralWHAT: Speaking on Corporate Governance and EthicsWHERE: Jon M. Hunstman Hall, 3730 Walnut St., Auditorium Ground Floor

SEAL dives into new career in business

You could say that Gentry Jensen stumbled upon Wharton when “Good Morning America” stumbled upon him. “We were training out in the desert once, just out there completely by ourselves, and a film crew came up and wanted to shoot footage of us,” said Jensen. “It was a crew from ‘Good Morning America’ who was doing a piece on SEAL officers who had gotten out, gone to business school, and gone on to do things after that. That kind of planted the seeds in my head.”