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Penn Expands Financial Aid Program to Eliminate Loans: Fact Sheet

PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania today announced a far-reaching new financial aid initiative that will eliminate loans for financially eligible undergraduate students regardless of family income, making it possible for students from a broad range of economic backgrounds to graduate debt-free.

University of Pennsylvania Professor Measures 'In Your Face' Television Debates' Effect on Audiences

PHILADELPHIA–- Today’s “in your face” televised political debates evoke emotional reactions in viewers and cause them to think that opposing views are less legitimate, according to a University of Pennsylvania researcher. “Effects of ‘In-Your-Face’ Television Discourse on Perceptions of Legitimate Opposition,” published in the November issue of the American Political Science Review, was written by Diana C. Mutz, a professor of political science and communications at Penn.

Alumni Robert A. Fox and Penny Grossman Fox Give $10 Million to Endow Robert A. Fox Leadership Program

PHILADELPHIA -- Alumni Robert A. Fox and Penny Grossman Fox have made a gift of $10 million to endow and expand the Robert A. Fox Leadership Program in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. The program, established in 1999 through an initial gift from the Foxes, combines coursework, events and service experiences to inspire and equip undergraduates to assume leadership roles in their future endeavors. This most recent gift brings the Foxes’ total support of the program to more than $23 million.

University of Pennsylvania Launches RealArts@Penn With Six New Undergraduate Internships

PHILADELPHIA -- The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania has launched a new project called RealArts@Penn, created in part to integrate art-world practice into the intellectual life of the university. RealArts will sponsor six paid internships in the summer of 2008 at MTV Networks, Rolling Stone magazine, Brooklyn Films, Shore Fire Media, Grand Central Publishing (formerly Warner Books) and Women Make Movies.

Campuses' Role in Promoting Human Rights, Democracy to be Examined at Student-Led Conference at Penn

Penn's Annenberg I-Neighbors Brings a Community Closer Together

PHILADELPHIA - The Internet can have a positive impact on the strength and growth of a community.  Just ask residents of a neighborhood in Savannah, Ga.It was there, on Nov. 20, that residents using the i-neighbors technology were alerted via e-mail to an incident of an armed robbery of one of their neighbors only moments after it happened.  The notification took place faster than the police or news media got the word out.  

A Partnership for Global Security: Penn Professor Among Six Experts to Outline Plan for Worldwide Biosecurity

PHILADELPHIA -- Harvey Rubin, director of the University of Pennsylvanias Institute for Strategic Threat Analysis and Response, is among six internationally recognized experts who have authored a five-point roadmap for the global community to enhance worldwide biosecurity.  The experts recommend that these five priorities be undertaken through immediate, action-oriented initiatives on an international scale.

Penn Lecture: Gun Policy and Its links to Domestic Violence

WHAT: Reducing Lethal Violence Against Women: Firearms, Policy and Politics, the Ornter-Unity Center on Family Violence LectureWHO: Dr. Susan Sorenson, professor, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of PennsylvaniaIn May, Dr. Sorenson testified before a congressional subcommittee on the effectiveness of laws designed to keep guns out of the hands of abusers.  She has written more than 100 publications on how gender, ethnicity and place of birth are related to the risk of violence.WHEN: Thurs., Nov. 1, 3-4 p.m.

Penn Scientists Receive Five-Year, $2.5 Million Grant to Study Climate Change in Mongolia

PHILADELPHIA - A team of ecologists and evolutionary biologists from the University of Pennsylvania has received a five-year, approximately $2.5 million grant to examine the ecological and societal consequences of increased grazing and rising temperatures in the Lake Hvsgl region of northern Mongolia.

Penn Professor Named to Leadership Role in New Neuroscience and Law Project

PHILADELPHIA - Stephen Morse, a University of Pennsylvania law and psychiatry professor, is among scientists, legal scholars, jurists and philosophers who will help integrate new developments in neuroscience into the U.S. legal system.