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For The Record: A successful experiment
By THE CURRENT STAFF Columns Ask Benny: Harvard or Penn? Which stadium is older? Out and About: Reading the leaves
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Staff Q&A: Peter Agree
Peter Agree has grown used to people misunderstanding his job. As an acquisitions editor at Cornell University Press—where he spent 17 years before coming to Penn—Agree remembers the phone calls he would field after 5 o’clock, when the switchboard was closed for the day. “I used to get calls from people wanting to know movie times” in the college town, he says. “They thought we were that kind of press.”
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Penn to Celebrate Franklin Legacies of Innovation, Education, Literature With Slate of Events
PHILADELPHIA The educational institution Benjamin Franklin envisioned more than 250 years ago that became the University of Pennsylvania will celebrate its founder with "Ben, Penn & You," an eclectic series of talks, exhibits, both actual and virtual, and musical performances.All Franklin-related activities at Penn are open to the public.
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Penn's Fels Institute Offers New Course for Students to Gain Practical Experience in Homeland Security
PHILADELPHIA -- The Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania will offer a special homeland-security course this spring, enabling students to work as special staff members to a Philadelphia government task force examining the city's homeland-security preparations. Harvey Rubin, professor of medicine and computer science and an expert in homeland security, bioterrorism and infectious diseases, will teach the course. "Homeland Security in Philadelphia" will focus on assessing the city's plans for dealing with catastrophes.
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National Study Finds Voters Don't Know Where to Vote on Election Day and Aren't Helped by Local Election Boards
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania's Fels Institute of Government today released two reports on the state of election administration in the U.S. that show a failure by local boards of election to answer voter questions on Election Day. The findings are detailed in the final reports on hotline data from the MYVOTE1 project, the largest-ever national election hotline conducted during the November 2004 U.S. presidential election and the 2005 elections in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.
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Penn Researchers Warn Against Potential Flaws in Wiretapping Technology
PHILADELPHIA -- As part of a federally funded program on electronic security, engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have discovered flaws in wiretapping technology that could allow parties being wiretapped to disable the recording and monitoring of their calls.
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Penn's Laurie O. Robinson Named to Two National Justice Positions
PHILADELPHIA -- Laurie O. Robinson, director of the criminology master of science program at the University of Pennsylvania and a former U.S. assistant attorney general, has been elected chair of the board of trustees of the Vera Institute of Justice. She has also been named to a new national commission looking at justice issues at the nexus of science and law.
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Just How Much Is a Serving of Dip? Psychologists Believe "Unit Bias" Determines the Acceptable Amount to Eat
PHILADELPHIA -- Hosts can do their holiday guests a big favor by serving smaller portions using smaller utensils. That the word from psychologists at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Two from Penn Win Marshall, Rhodes Scholarships
PHILADELPHIA-- Two University of Pennsylvania students have won two of the country's most prestigious scholarships.Brett Shaheen, a senior from St. Louis, Mo., has been named a Rhodes Scholar, and Aziza Zakhidova, a senior from McKinney, Texas, has won a Marshall Scholarship. Only 32 Rhodes Scholarships and 40 Marshall Scholarships are awarded nationally each year.