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Help! It’s raining on me at my desk
It’s 7 p.m. on a Friday. You’re in your office wrapping up an important project when suddenly water rains down from the ceiling above. If you’re smart, you pick up the phone and dial 215-898-7208 or else you hop on your computer, assuming it’s out of the line of fire, and send an e-mail to workreq@pobox.upenn.edu. An agent answers your call, puts in a work ticket and dispatches the request to the appropriate building operations manager.
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Holiday home checks, escorts and more
’Tis the season for crime. So the Department of Public Safety has some suggestions to keep you safe. Home safety You’re going away for the holidays. But you can’t take your home in University City with you, and you’re worried it won’t be safe. Here’s the solution for you—police checks. Students, faculty and staff who live in the University City area may request special checks of their residences, to be conducted by the University of Pennsylvania Police Department.
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Remembering the dream, living the vision
Instead of starting the semester, Penn’s observance of the Martin Luther King Day holiday comes at the start of its third week, meaning that the entire campus will be able to participate in all of the events planned to commemorate King’s life and his vision. And for the second year, everyone will have the day off to make participating easier.
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Not your father’s chamber ensemble
They’ve only been around for five years, but the contemporary classical sextet eighth blackbird has already made a splash in the world of classical music. In 1998, only their second year of performing, they became the first contemporary ensemble to win first prize at the Concert Artists Guild International Competition, where they also won the Rockport Chamber Music Festival Prize. They have since gone on to rack up more awards and win accolades from audiences and critics for both their virtuosity and the fun they have presenting works by contemporary composers.
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“First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory”
The latest book in our Early American Studies series is a sweeping historical critique by one of the most distinguished historians writing today. Covering more than two centuries of social, economic and political change and offering a challenging, innovative approach to urban as well as national history, “First City” tells the Philadelphia story through the wealth of material culture its citizens have chosen to preserve.
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Shop with ease
So you’re in the market for, say, office furniture or some lab chemicals. Up until now, buying these things meant flipping through several catalogs, hunting down prices, filling out forms and waiting while they made their way through the purchasing food chain. Come Jan. 2, all that will be a thing of the past, thanks to BEN Buys and the Penn Marketplace. BEN Buys is the part of Penn’s new Business Enterprise Network aimed at faculty and staff in general. BEN Buys is designed to take the hassle out of shopping for equipment and supplies at Penn.
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Penn Research Shows Religion's Positive Effect On Fatherhood And Academic Achievement
WASHINGTON -- The University of Pennsylvania, in conjunction with the Manhattan Institute, today released two new studies documenting the positive role that religious organizations play in motivating men to become better fathers and children to become better students.
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Penn Professor Believes the Teacher Shortage is Mis-diagnosed
PHILADELPHIA A study published in the fall issue of American Educational Research Journal found that America's "teacher shortage" is mis-diagnosed and that popular solutions won't work. Using national data from the U.S. Department of Education, Richard Ingersoll, associate professor of education and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, found the so-called "teacher shortage" is not mainly due to an inadequate supply of teachers, as is widely believed.
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Astronomers Unveil First Detection Of Dark Matter Object In The Milky Way
PHILADELPHIA - Astronomers from the University of Pennsylvania, in collaboration with an international team of researchers, have made the first direct detection and measurement of the properties of a dark matter object in the Milky Way. This observation of a gravitational microlensing event - a temporary increase in the brightness of a background star during the time it takes dark matter to pass in front of it - is reported in the Dec. 6 issue of Nature.
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Molecule That Restricts Mouse Cells' Potency Could Yield Embryonic Stem Cells Without the Sacrifice of Embryos
PHILADELPHIA - Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have identified a receptor that plays a key role in restricting embryonic stem cellspluripotency, their ability to develop into virtually any of an adult animal cell types. The work is the first demonstration of a mechanism by which pluripotency is lost in mammalian embryos, one that operates with nearly the precision of an on/off switch in mouse embryos.