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Campus fire safety: What you need to know
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Firefighters from the Philadelphia Fire Department stand by during the live side-by-side dorm “burn” on Hamilton Field. All of Penn’s on-campus residences feature sprinkler systems. Photo by Stacy Ritchey, Division of Public Safety 

 

 

Campus fire safety: What you need to know

As part of its annual Life-Saving Measures event, the Division of Public Safety hosted a live side-by-side controlled “burn” of a dorm room model on Hamilton Field to show how “Sprinklers Save Lives.”
Shining a light on sensational staff
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Penn staff members and their families and friends celebrate at last year’s Models of Excellence ceremony. Photo by Stephanie Brown.

Shining a light on sensational staff

HR is accepting nominations for this year’s Models of Excellence Program through Friday, Oct. 19.

Lauren Hertzler

How do stereotypes affect what people think is fair?
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How do stereotypes affect what people think is fair?

Stereotypes systematically affect what people think is fair, according to new research from psychologist Anna Jenkins. The findings make it possible to predict how people will treat members of different social groups.

Michele W. Berger

Take Your Professor to Lunch program fosters student-faculty relationships, spurs serendipity
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Inside Hill House Cafe, Penn students eat lunch and chat with President Amy Gutmann, professor of political science and professor of communication, as part of the “Take Your Professor to Lunch” program.

Take Your Professor to Lunch program fosters student-faculty relationships, spurs serendipity

Students gathered for lunch with President Amy Gutmann on Tuesday as part of New Student Orientation & Academic Initiatives’ ongoing “Take Your Professor to Lunch” program.
Teachers become students to become better teachers at GRASP Lab’s RET program
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The Rehabilitation Robotics Lab at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine was one of the sites where GRASP Lab members gave local high school teachers a crash course in robotics. 

Teachers become students to become better teachers at GRASP Lab’s RET program

The Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program run by the GRASP Lab in the School of Engineering and Applied Science is part of a larger National Science Foundation effort to get students interested in science and engineering at an early age. This summer, one cohort of students worked with robots in the Rehabilitation Robotics Lab at the Perelman School of Medicine.

Penn Today Staff

Bringing the world to Penn
Panel on stage at Irvine Auditorium

The “National Visions” roundtable featured former Mexican President Felipe Calderón;  NPR international correspondent Deborah Amos; Catherine Ashton, former high representative of the European Union for foreign affairs and security policy; Princeton University professor Aaron Friedberg; and Richard Verma, former U.S. ambassador to India. 

Bringing the world to Penn

Perry World House’s two-day colloquium, “Competing Visions of the Global Order,” featured important conversations with eminent world leaders, and concluded with the Penn Biden Leaders Dialogue.
With former VP Joe Biden, students get fired up to vote in midterm elections
Biden NVRD Former Vice President Joe Biden, the Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor, energizes a crowd of students at the Penn Leads the Vote National Voter Registration Day event on Tuesday, Sept. 25.

With former VP Joe Biden, students get fired up to vote in midterm elections

An afternoon get-out-the-vote effort held at Houston Hall on Tuesday brought together various campus offices and organizations, and elicited a rousing speech from former Vice President Joe Biden.