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Penn Students Help Bridge Digital Divine
PHILADELPHIA The University of Pennsylvania is helping West Philadelphia non-profits keep up-to-date with computer technology through a grant from the Corporation for National Service. The Center for Community Partnerhips at Penn has hired two full-time coordinators to implement computer training and to distribute hardware and software to area churches and high schools. The three-year $171,000 grant began on Jan. 1.
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PenNetWorks Engages Philadelphia's Business And Entrepreneur Communities
PHILADELPHIA--Redleaf Group, Inc. and P2B, Ventures Inc., a subsidiary of The University of Pennsylvania, invite entrepreneurs to an open house for to learn more about PenNetWorks (www.pennetworks.com). PenNetworks enables early stage entrepreneurs to launch and prepare their ventures for first-round funding. PenNetWorks is a pre-seed business accelerator serving the Delaware Valley that is o wned by P2B and managed by the Redleaf Group, Inc., a privately held technology operating company.
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Penn Establishes Genomics Institute; Invests Over $75 Million In University-wide Genomics Initiatives
University of Pennsylvania President Judith Rodin and Provost Robert Barchi today announced the establishment of a new Genomics Institute that will spearhead future development in this critical new area. Professor of Biology David Roos has been named Director of the Institute. This initiative comes at a time when many schools and departments at Penn have made genomics research a priority, including the Departments of Biology and Genetics, and the new Cancer Genomics Program of The Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute [AFCRI] at the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center.
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Collaboration Between Penn Chemist And Secret Service Points The Way To Improved Gathering Of Fingerprints
PHILADELPHIA What do you get when you cross an organic chemist with the U.S. Secret Service? In at least one case, such a partnership has resulted in a means of developing fingerprints at crime scenes that less damaging to evidence, more sensitive and less expensive for law enforcement agencies. The class of chemicals the team ultimately fingered, known as indanediones, recently received a U.S. patent, and a European company has obtained a non-exclusive license to the technology.
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Tony Kushner To Be 2001 Kelly Writers House Fellow At Penn
PHILADELPHIA In a program designed to connect undergraduate students with accomplished writers, award-winning playwright Tony Kushner will be the first 2001 Kelly Writers House Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Kushner is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize and many other awards for his seven-hour, two-part Broadway production of Angels in America. The other 2001 Fellows will be David Sedaris in March and June Jordan in April.
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Doyle named PR chief
Lori N. Doyle, vice president for external affairs of the American Water Works Company, Inc. in Voorhees, N.J., returned to the University today as director of communications, Penn President Judith Rodin announced.
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Ari Alexander
If you talk to Ari Alexander (C’01) about his Marshall Scholarship, you will hear him tell you at least three times what he wants to do with his life. He wants to help people. This commitment is the text of Ari Alexander’s life; the rest is commentary. Now he’s going to go study.
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Penn Receives $20 Million Gift For University Priorities In Financial Aid, Student Life and Faculty Support
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania has received a $20 million gift from Say Yes to Education, Inc. that will provide for its priorities in student life, faculty support and financial aid, according to an announcement today by Penn President Judith Rodin.
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Personal attacks in politics bemoaned
We may never see the likes of Bill Clinton again. And that, journalist Joe Klein (C’68) suggested, would be a real shame. Klein — the once-anonymous author of “Primary Colors,” the roman à clef of the ’92 Clinton campaign — was the featured speaker at a Fox Leadership Program forum on “The Clinton Legacy and the Future of the Bush Presidency” Jan. 23.
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Ooh la la, architectural decorations!
It is often said that genius goes unrecognized in its own time. It is also often said that giants are unrecognized in their home towns. And sure enough, both of these clichés surfaced as two world-renowned architects were honored in their home town Jan. 18. Robert Venturi (Hon’80), one of the architects, invoked the first cliché. “Quite often, the greatest artists in history are not recognized in their time. This concerns me. But I see that we are still controversial, and this makes me feel better.”