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Master French Printmakers to be Featured at Penn's Arthur Ross Gallery
PHILADELPHIA--- "Leaving a Mark: The Art of the Print in 19th Century France" will open April 6 at the University of Pennsylvania Arthur Ross Gallery. The exhibition includes woodblock prints, etchings and lithographs by French masters including Czanne, Degas, Delacroix, Gauguin, Manet and Pissarro. Nearly 80 prints from the Arthur Ross Foundation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and private collections will be featured.
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Penn Students Fight Blight in Las Vegas
PHILADELPHIA When students from the University of Pennsylvania looked at blighted Fremont Street East in Las Vegas, they saw the outline of a swan rather than an ugly duckling. And, in the contrast between Las Vegastowering casinos and down-and-out Fremont Street East, the international and interdisciplinary team from Penn Graduate School of Fine Arts saw the difference between what succeeds and what doesn't.
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The Path to a Neatly Folded Protein, Long the Subject of Debate, Appears in many Cases to be Long and Winding
PHILADELPHIA It a long-simmering debate in the world of physical chemistry: Does the folding of proteins into biologically active shapes better resemble a luge run fast, linear and predictable or the more freeform trajectories of a ski slope? New research from the University of Pennsylvania offers the strongest evidence yet that proteins shimmy into their characteristic shapes not via a single, unyielding route but by paths as individualistic as those followed by skiers coursing from a mountain summit down to the base lodge.
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Penn Professor Solves Mystery from 'Hamlet'
PHILADELPHIA Curiosity about a line from "Hamlet" has led a University of Pennsylvania English professor to discover a tablet that was something of a Renaissance precursor of today personal digital assistants.Teaching a Penn course on "The History of the Book in Early Modern Europe," Peter Stallybrass and history professor Roger Chartier were puzzled by a line in Shakespeare's "Hamlet." Having seen the ghost of his father, Hamlet says: Yea, from the table of my memoryI'll wipe away all trivial fond records,
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Faculty Feature: A Johnny Appleseed shares growing passion
Though the Red Delicious at the grocery store may look enticing with its waxy sheen and perfect heart shape, in taste it’s not worth much, at least according to William Dailey. Dailey, an avid fruit grower, is a self-professed apple connoisseur. He also happens to be a professor of chemistry at Penn. But he’d rather spend his time talking apples, not molecules.
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Yo, Philly! Help is here
Penn’s Community Service Directory began six years ago as a loose-leaf binder listing courses and programs that engage Penn students, faculty and staff in service to the surrounding community. It’s now a 133-page book, with color covers and professional design, listing nearly 300 different courses, research and service projects that provide community service to West Philadelphia and the city as a whole.
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Out and About: Writers, no two alike, meet and read
“I’ve been late every meeting,” said James Carpenter, the first to walk into the writers group meeting. He was taking his muffler off when we arrived to check out the group’s proceedings. Then he sighed. “So I’m not intimate with the group yet.” It was 5:05 p.m., 10 minutes before the February meeting of the Penn and Pencil Club, a group of staff members who joined together to lend one another support and feedback on their ways with words.
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People's Choice: Wharton cooks
It’s been a long day at the office, but you’re hungry as a horse, and you don’t feel like spending a lot of time cooking. What do you do? Judging from the responses we got from Wharton School staff and faculty, the answer depends a lot on your gender. LAURIE LUNDQUIST Finance and Administration “I cook a lot on weekends. I’ll cook additional quantities at the same time like rosemary omelets which is for six meals, lasagna and a big turkey breast, and I divide it up and freeze it. I make a lot of soup, too.”
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“Traveling the Pennsylvania Railroad: The Photographs of William H. Rau”
In the 1890s Philadelphia’s preeminent photographer, William H. Rau, was commissioned to take more than 450 photographs along the routes of the Pennsylvania Railroad in order to promote travel on the railway. Known as “the standard railroad of the world,” the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest rail system in the East, linking New York and Philadelphia to Pittsburgh and Midwestern industrial centers like Chicago and St. Louis.
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University examines healthcare
University administrators are working to respond to the issues raised by spiraling costs of healthcare nationwide.