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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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Q&A/The mysteries of the universe—where it came from, what it’s made of—have intrigued Licia Verde since she was a young girl. Fortunately for her, she’s part of a research project that aims to answer just those kind of fundamental questions, and offer humankind a greater understanding of our vast, confounding universe. “The amazing thing is that we can use scientific method, mathematics and physics to describe the whole universe.”
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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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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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PHILADELPHIA-- Scholars from across the country plan to put the social and economic situation of low-income black males in the national spotlight when they gather at the University of Pennsylvania for an April 20-21 conference, "Poor, Young, Black and Male: A Cause for National Action.""Typically residing in areas of concentrated urban poverty, too many young black men are trapped in a horrific cycle of active discrimination, unemployment, crime, violence, prison and early death," Penn Sociology Professor Elijah Anderson, one of the conference organizers, said.
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PHILADELPHIA-- The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania will receive a $2.5 million gift from the Annenberg Foundation in memory of former Annenberg School Dean George Gerbner. "The permanent endowment will establish and support the George Gerbner post-doctoral fellowship program at ASC so that George Gerbner's name will continue to be writ large at Penn," Penn President Amy Gutmann said. "What a beautiful way to honor a great life devoted so faithfully to the pursuit of scholarly perfection in communication studies."
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PHILADELPHIA -- A revolutionary motor that is more power-efficient, lightweight and cost-effective than any other actuator currently used in prosthetics or robotics swept several awards categories at the 2nd Annual PennVention competition at the University of Pennsylvania Weiss Tech House on April 7.PennVention helps students develop innovative technologies and provides them with tools to launch those products to market. This year winners will revolutionize the way we watch television, think about robotic movement, do our laundry, paint our houses and even play golf.