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PHILADELPHIA -- In keeping with the tradition of the School District of Philadelphia in naming new schools, the Penn-assisted school Home and School Association invites the community to help determine a name. Nominations must be submitted in writing by March 22 to the Penn-assisted School Planning Office, 4243 Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19104, or by e-mail to kreidlea@gse.upenn.edu.Each suggestion should, to the extent possible:
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PHILADELPHIA One of the founders of MANNA, a renowned Philadelphia AIDS organization, has chronicled his experiences in a new book. "MANNA in the Wilderness of AIDS: Ten Lessons in Abundance," by Kenwyn Smith contains many vignettes and insights about the growth that comes from serving others. "The greatest teachers in my life so far have been people living with AIDS," Smith said. "What I have learned from being with them is far greater than the cumulative insights I have gleaned from all the books I read and all the courses Ie taken."
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PHILADELPHIA--- "Leaving a Mark: The Art of the Print in 19th Century France" will open April 6 at the University of Pennsylvania Arthur Ross Gallery. The exhibition includes woodblock prints, etchings and lithographs by French masters including Czanne, Degas, Delacroix, Gauguin, Manet and Pissarro. Nearly 80 prints from the Arthur Ross Foundation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and private collections will be featured.
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PHILADELPHIA When students from the University of Pennsylvania looked at blighted Fremont Street East in Las Vegas, they saw the outline of a swan rather than an ugly duckling. And, in the contrast between Las Vegastowering casinos and down-and-out Fremont Street East, the international and interdisciplinary team from Penn Graduate School of Fine Arts saw the difference between what succeeds and what doesn't.
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PHILADELPHIA It a long-simmering debate in the world of physical chemistry: Does the folding of proteins into biologically active shapes better resemble a luge run fast, linear and predictable or the more freeform trajectories of a ski slope? New research from the University of Pennsylvania offers the strongest evidence yet that proteins shimmy into their characteristic shapes not via a single, unyielding route but by paths as individualistic as those followed by skiers coursing from a mountain summit down to the base lodge.
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PHILADELPHIA Curiosity about a line from "Hamlet" has led a University of Pennsylvania English professor to discover a tablet that was something of a Renaissance precursor of today personal digital assistants.Teaching a Penn course on "The History of the Book in Early Modern Europe," Peter Stallybrass and history professor Roger Chartier were puzzled by a line in Shakespeare's "Hamlet." Having seen the ghost of his father, Hamlet says: Yea, from the table of my memoryI'll wipe away all trivial fond records,
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In the 1890s Philadelphia’s preeminent photographer, William H. Rau, was commissioned to take more than 450 photographs along the routes of the Pennsylvania Railroad in order to promote travel on the railway. Known as “the standard railroad of the world,” the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest rail system in the East, linking New York and Philadelphia to Pittsburgh and Midwestern industrial centers like Chicago and St. Louis.
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University administrators are working to respond to the issues raised by spiraling costs of healthcare nationwide.
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You’ve heard of the two-career couple. Meet the two-career individual. Glenn Bryan (W’74,SW’76) has spent nine years attending to the concerns of Penn’s neighbors and the concerns of the folks in City Hall whose decisions affect Penn’s fortunes. But he’s spent much longer than that attending to the ears—and souls—of the audiences who have had the good fortune to hear him play with various musicians and groups through the years.