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PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania, including its Health System, contributes $9.6 billion annually to the state economy through its salaries, purchases, research, construction projects, taxes and indirect and induced expenditures, according to an independent economic and fiscal impact report issued this week by Econsult Corp. of Philadelphia.This figure, which translates roughly to $25 million daily, underscores that Penn is not only a premier international institution of higher education but is a powerful economic engine as well.
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Dear Benny, When did Penn get a carillon on campus? Whenever I’ve been out around College Green, I’ve noticed bells chiming the hours. It seems new to me this year. Also, I could have sworn one evening when I was doing some research in the library I heard the bells playing some sort of tune. It was right before a game at the Palestra. Could I have just been suffering from low blood sugar and hallucinating? — Ears Still Ringing Dear Aurally Astute,
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WHO SHE IS: Administrative Assistant, Principal Gifts and Planned Giving, Wharton External Affairs YEARS AT PENN: About a year. WHAT SHE DOES: Mastnjak supports the director and several major gifts officers in Wharton’s External Affairs department. She schedules meetings, makes travel arrangements, gathers information, helps plan events and also contributes to a department newsletter.
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Columns Ask Benny: Does Penn have its own bell tower? Out and About: Walkabout
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Top Stories Foer on form Got deep pockets? Run for office
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TELEVISION/A new TV series hosted by a Penn prof helps families get back on track with diet, lifestyle. What does it take to get Americans to change their children’s diets? A new TV show hosted by a School of Medicine professor is using cutting edge technology to show parents what their chubby young kids will look like at age 40 if they continue to eat junk food and favor TV and video games over exercise. The results aren’t pretty.
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STAFF Q&A/Anne Stamer has helped turn Weiss Tech House into Penn’s ‘hub’ for technology. “Our mission is to help excite and invigorate students around technology.” During the early days of the Weiss Tech House, Director Anne Stamer, Faculty Director Karl Ulrich and about 20 students operated out of a cubicle in Huntsman Hall. But these days, things have certainly changed for the campus technology and innovation hub.
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Later this month the track and field world will descend on West Philadelphia for the world’s most famous track meet—the Penn Relays. For 111 years, the Penn Relay Carnival has provided an opportunity for athletes from around the world, and of all ages, to run in a track and field event unlike any other. In the past 10 years alone, more than 100,000 men and women have run at the Relays. They have ranged in age from 8 to 80. And they have included everyone from high school stars to some of the most celebrated Olympians in history (think Michael Johnson, Carl Lewis and others).
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These days, Penn swimmers take the plunge either at the Pottruck pool or the aging but still serviceable Hutchinson facility. Back in the 1890s, the aquatically inclined headed to the recently opened Houston Hall, where a swimming pool shared basement space with a gymnasium and a bowling alley. One floor up, students could play billiards, sit down to a game of chess or checkers or spend some quality post-lap time in the “smoking and lounging” room. Women were excluded from Houston’s basement, though they could visit the first floor as guests of male students.