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Whether it’s on the subway, right before bed at night, or during a lunch break on Locust Walk, Penn staff and faculty are squeezing in the last bit of summer reading. From contemporary fiction and local newspapers to sociological studies and, yes, even children’s literature, the Penn community is reading it all. For suggestions on what to read and what to strenuously avoid, check out what these Penn members had to say. Irene Laird, Intern, VHUP
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Want to help prepare a high school student for the world of work? Or would you like to mentor an eighth grader instead? These are just two of the service opportunities available through Penn Volunteers in Public Service this month. Penn VIPS is looking for people willing to hire University City or West Philadelphia high school students as interns, exposing them to career possibilities. Students earn academic credit for their internships.
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PHILADELPHIA Richard Gelles has been named interim dean of the School of the Social Work at the University of Pennsylvania, effective Sept. 1. His appointment was announced today by Judith Rodin, Penn president, and Robert Barchi, the provost.Gelles, the Joanne T. and Raymond B. Welsh Professor in Child Welfare and Family Violence, is, Rodin said, "an accomplished scholar, outstanding researcher and experienced administrator."
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PHILADELPHIA While its future home may be only an outline in red and white steel girders, the new University of Pennsylvania-assisted public school at 42nd and Locust streets will open Sept. 6 for some 120 students in kindergarten and grade one.While the new building is under construction, classes will be held in a wing of a now-closed divinity school that occupies the site. Students at the still-to-be-named facility will benefit from a school designed from the ground up to incorporate the "best educational practices" that have borne the tests of research and time.
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PHILADELPHIA The National Science Foundation has awarded $1 million to a University of Pennsylvania team to identify better techniques for software development, particularly ways to get a jump-start, during product design, on debugging the embedded computers that run modern automobiles and a host of other electronic devices and appliances.
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PHILADELPHIA -- It's easy to see the final line in Voltaire's "Candide" hanging on the wall above an executive's head in a neatly matted frame: "e must cultivate our garden." Or perhaps on an inspiring desk calendar in a clean crisp font? This phrase radiates an optimistic energy; a hard-work-pays-off spirit.Or does it?The ambiguity and multi-tiered interpretations are what makes "Candide" this year's choice for the Penn Reading Project.
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PHILADELPHIA Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have won a $3.1 million bioengineering research grant to study brain injuries at a level of detail never before attained. The team, lead by Penn bioengineer David F. Meaney, will detect the genes and proteins altered in single neurons in the brain to better understand the cellsresponses to contusions and other forms of brain trauma.
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PHILADELPHIA -- Architect Marshall D. Meyers, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects who spent his professional life in Philadelphia, died August 12 in Pasadena, Calif. He was 70. Meyers was known for his exceptional contributions to the art and craft of architecture, and is internationally recognized for his innovative contributions to Philadelphia architect Louis I.
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PHILADELPHIA In an experiment with exquisite sensitivity, physicists at the University of Pennsylvania have found that fluctuations as fleeting as the bending of rod-shaped viruses just 880 millionths of a millimeter in length can measurably increase the entropic forces between other particles in solution. The finding is reported in the journal Physical Review Letters.
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PHILADELPHIA--Back to school this year has taken new meaning for 18 senior administrators from higher education across the nation. They are not only orchestrating the new academic year from their posts as vice presidents and deans but they are also beginning their doctorates in higher education management at the University of Pennsylvania.The Executive Doctorate is structured so participants can earn the Penn doctorate in education in two years by coming to Philadelphia for a long weekend once a month for 20 consecutive months. The program begins on Aug. 16 and runs to Aug. 21.