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Penn’s Graduate School of Education. Milken Family Foundation Select 2012 Education Business Plan Winners
The University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE) and the Milken Family Foundation have announced the winners of the 2012 Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition (EBPC) – with five winners earning a total of $120,000 in prize funding.
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Penn Offering Postdoctoral Fellowships to Promote Academic Diversity
PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania is now accepting applications for its Academic Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. The program will award postdoctoral fellowships to scholars and educators from different backgrounds, races and ethnic groups and from other diverse groups whose life experience, research experience and employment background will contribute to Penn’s academic excellence. The deadline for applications is Aug. 1.
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Penn Welcomes African Visitors Through a State Department Program, Grassroots Democracy in the U.S.
The University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education hosted 15 leaders from more than nine African countries for a conversation on public deliberation in the United States and how it can apply to communities in Africa. The leaders came to learn more about U.S. organizations that increase civic engagement and citizen participation in democratic governance.
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Just Write: Writing Retreat for GSE and SAS Faculty
Stop what you’re doing, and just write. That’s what some University of Pennsylvania faculty will be doing the week of June 4. Twenty faculty members from the Graduate School of Education and the School of Arts and Sciences will attend the first-ever Faculty Writing Retreat in the McNeil Building.
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Penn GSE and Milken Family Foundation Announce 2012 Education Business Plan Competition Finalists
Philadelphia, PA – The University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE) and the Milken Family Foundation have announced the finalists of the 2012 Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition (EBPC).
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Penn Graduate Students Kara Cohen, Katie Murphy Selected as Schweitzer Fellows
PHILADELPHIA – Two University of Pennsylvania graduate students are among 16 from around the region selected as Greater Philadelphia Schweitzer Fellows for 2012-13.
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Graduate School of Education Welcomes Education Writers Association Conference to Penn
PHILADELPHIA –- Hundreds of education journalists will gather at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education for the 65thEducation Writers Association’s national seminar tomorrow through Saturday.
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Georgia Higher Education Policies Hurt Blacks, Hispanics and Poor, Penn Study Finds
PHILADELPHIA — Georgia’s higher education policies are making it harder for black, Hispanic and poor Georgians to get a college education, according to a new report released by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Research on Higher Education.
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Penn Trustees to Extend President Gutmann’s Contract
PHILADELPHIA -- The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania will extend the contract of President Amy Gutmann for five additional years beyond its current expiration date.
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Liver Fat Gets a Wake-Up Call That Maintains Blood Sugar Levels, According to Penn Study
A Penn research team, led by Mitchell Lazar, MD, PhD, director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, reports in Nature Medicine that mice in which an enzyme called histone deacetylase 3 (HDAC3) was deleted had massively fa