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Lauren Greenfield’s ”Girl Culture” at Penn’s Arthur Ross Gallery
PHILADELPHIA — “Girl Culture” opens at the University of Pennsylvania’s Arthur Ross Gallery on April 9. Featuring 50 color photographs of girls and young women from a range of ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds across the United States, “Girl Culture” explores girls’ relationships with their own bodies and popular culture. The images in this show examine contemporary life for girls, addressing topics such as sexuality, body image and weight-loss culture.
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Penn Law Receives Major Gift to Launch IP and Technology Legal Clinic
Building on its faculty, curricular, and research strengths in law and technology, the University of Pennsylvania Law School has received a major gift to establish a leading-edge intellectual property (IP) and technology legal clinic.
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Playwright Edward Albee to Visit Penn March 21-22 as 2011 Kelly Writers House Fellow
PHILADELPHIA – Playwright Edward Albee will visit the University of Pennsylvania March 21-22 as one of three acclaimed writers selected to be Spring 2011 Kelly Writers House Fellows. Albee will give evening readings and informal teaching sessions with young writers and aspiring writers. Last month non-fiction writer Susan Cheever was at Penn. Next month poetry critic Marjorie Perloff will visit campus April 25-26.
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New Findings on Drug Tolerance in Tuberculosis Suggest Ideas for Shorter Cures
New research on how tuberculosis (TB) bacteria develop multi-drug tolerance points to ways TB infections might be cured more quickly. The study was published online last week in Cell. The results identify both a mechanism and a potential therapy for drug tolerance that is induced in the TB bacteria by the host cells they infect. Currently, TB treatment requires a complex, long-term curative regimen of at least six months.
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Media Character Use on Food Packaging Appears to Influence Children’s Taste Assessment
CHICAGO – The use of media characters on cereal packaging may influence children’s opinions about taste, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. The article is the outgrowth of a study by Annenberg doctoral students Matthew Lapierre and Sarah Vaala, and Deborah L. Linebarger, Ph.D., assistant professor of communication.
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PennDesign reframes the image of water
The concept behind PennDesign’s upcoming two-day symposium called “In The Terrain of Water” is simple but deep: Water is everywhere. In the ground. In the sky. In oceans and rivers. It is transient and uncertain. It is ubiquitous and it is scarce.
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Landmark Americana
WHAT: The Landmark Americana Tap & Grill, a West Philadelphia eatery that opened in May 2010 at 3333 Market St. WHEN: The restaurant is open Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. On Sunday, Landmark opens at 2 p.m. ESPN ZONE: The sports-themed restaurant is decorated with high-definition flat screen televisions, each tuned to ESPN (muted).
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$3 billion milestone
Penn President Amy Gutmann announced at the Feb. 18 meeting of the Board of Trustees that the University has reached the $3 billion mark in its $3.5 billion Making History campaign.
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Have you seen the videos of those amazing flying machines?
The latest YouTube sensation isn’t a puppy that dances to Lady Gaga or a kitten that opens beer bottles. By using unmanned aerial vehicles called quadrotors, two Ph.D. candidates at the School of Engineering and Applied Science have built an autonomous airborne construction crew able to build small structures—and in the process they’ve captured the attention of millions.
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Penn Cricket Club participates in tournament during spring break
While some students will be spending spring break basking in the sun on a beach in Florida, Penn’s Cricket Club will also be enjoying the warmer weather in the “Sunshine State” competing in a cricket tournament.