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The big day finally arrives: Vice President Dick Cheney and a few hundred of Jon M. Huntsman’s (W’57) closest friends started the Jon M. Huntsman Hall celebration with a private get-together the morning of Oct. 25. The evening, however, belonged to the entire campus, with an official dedication and open house that started at 5 p.m. Huntsman made an impassioned plea for putting humane and ethical values uppermost in business—and in business education—in his speech at the ceremony.
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A look at this winter’s hot teams
The fall sports season drawing to a close has been mostly successful for Penn’s varsity teams, with football undefeated in Ivy League play as of press time and sprint football and men’s soccer also posting winning seasons. But the recent chill in the air serves as a reminder that the winter season approaches. What are the teams to watch this season, and what are their prospects? We asked the Athletic Department staff and team coaches for their assessments.
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Staff Q&A: Tony Aiello
Tony Aiello is a patient man. He has just returned from his first botanical specimen-hunting trip to China with a cache of seeds from six species of oaks, two of which have never been seen by botanists before, a rare species of maple and a relative of the elm tree. He will plant them in the greenhouse at the Morris Arboretum and he will wait. Some seeds take up to two years just to germinate. It will be years before they can be moved outdoors.
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Penn Professor Examines the Challenges of Multicultural Citizenship in England
PHILADELPHIA -- Unlike the United States, Britain has only recently become a nation of immigrants. The influx of former colonial subjects -- including Sikhs from Punjab in northern India -- has forced the nation to reconsider what it means to be a British citizen. Kathleen Hall, an anthropologist and associate professor in the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education, explores how Britain has responded to the challenges of immigration in her book, "Lives in Translation: Sikh Youth as British Citizens" (University of Pennsylvania Press).
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Penn Social Work Professor Given Award for Pioneering Work in Adoption
PHILADELPHIA -- Hailed as one of the foremost leaders in adoption today by the Child Welfare League of America, Carol Wilson Spigner has been given the organization's Pioneer in Adoption award. Spigner is a professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Pennsylvania. "Carol is one of our most distinguished professors, and it is a tribute to her work serving children to be recognized with such a prestigious award," said Richard Gelles, interim dean of the School of Social Work.
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Penn English Professor Receives Christian Gauss Award
PHILADELPHIA - Susan Stewart, professor of English in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, has won this year's Christian Gauss Award for her book "Poetry and the Fate of the Senses." The honor acknowledges outstanding scholarly books published in the United States in the field of literary scholarship or criticism.
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New Programs at the Penn Graduate School of Education Aim to Prepare Scientific Researchers in Education
PHILADELPHIA -- With the introduction of two new degree programs, the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education will equip education researchers with techniques of quantitative analysis fundamental to social science research.
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Drug Averts Parkinson's Disease in Fruit Flies, Suggesting New Approaches to Human Neurodegenerative Diseases
PHILADELPHIA – Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have averted the onset of neurodegenerative disease in fruit flies by administering medication to flies genetically predisposed to a disorder akin to Parkinson's disease. The result suggests a new approach to the treatment of human disorders including Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. Penn biologist Nancy M. Bonini and graduate student Pavan K. Auluck report the finding in the November issue of Nature Medicine.
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Penn Launches New Research Web Site, Publication
PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania has launched a new research web site and publication to share the knowledge generated by its 4,300 faculty researchers. The site and publication, both called Research at Penn, highlight the breadth of research activity across Penn's 12 schools.The web site – http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn – is accessible to all members of the Penn community and the general public. Its companion publication will be sent annually to some 10,000 friends of the University.
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University of Pennsylvania Selects QUALCOMM's Eudora® E-mail Software
PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania today announced that it has chosen QUALCOMM's Eudora® email software with native Kerberos support as its primary recommended mail client program. Kerberos, a network authentication protocol, is designed to provide strong authentication for client/server applications by using secret-key cryptography. Penn sees this as a major step in its ongoing efforts to provide enhanced information security for systems and services throughout the University.