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Penn Sports Network offers live-streamed University athletic events
The Penn Sports Network, an online sports center operated by Penn Athletics, was launched in 2007 to offer Quaker fans, foreign and domestic, unparalleled access to all 33 varsity sports at the University, and exclusive live audio and video streaming of Penn athletic events.
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Q&A with Mary Frances Berry
Upon appointing Mary Frances Berry, the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History at Penn, as the first chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in 1993, President Clinton called her a “civil rights scholar as well as an advocate.”
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‘Silk Road’ exhibition to open with Chinese mummies and artifacts
The Penn Museum is pleased to announce that its landmark exhibition from China, “Secrets of the Silk Road,” will now open to the public with the full complement of artifacts and mummies for a limited time only, beginning Friday, Feb. 18. The Museum will extend day and evening hours to help accommodate those who wish to experience this extraordinary exhibition during its limited run.
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Penn’s 2011-12 Financial Aid Budget at Its Highest; Undergrad Tuition Hike Second Lowest in 43 Years
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania today announced its second-smallest tuition increase in 43 years -– 3.9 percent -– while reaffirming its commitment to its no-loan financial-aid program. Penn will expand its financial-aid budget for the coming year by $10.7 million, or 7.7 percent, to $161 million. Increasing access for undergraduate students is one of President Amy Gutmann’s top priorities; the University has increased its financial-aid budget by 104 percent since she became president in 2004.
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Join Computer Science Experts and Penn Students to Watch the Final Match of “The Jeopardy! IBM Challenge”
WHAT: The Jeopardy! IBM challenge pits the long-running game show’s two most successful contestants against an IBM computer named Watson, as a demonstration of its ability to understand and respond to natural language questions. Figuring out the contextual cues and ambiguity found in normal human speech, especially the tricky wordplay found in Jeopardy! clues, is a major challenge for computers. Advancements in that field have major implications for science, business and personal computing.
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First International Collaboration on the Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease Is Launched
The launch of the International Genomics of Alzheimer’s Project (IGAP) – a collaboration formed to discover and map the genes that contribute to Alzheimer’s disease – was announced Feb. 1 by a multi-national group of researchers. The collaborative effort, spanning universities from both Europe and the United States, will combine the knowledge, staff and resources of four consortia that conduct research on Alzheimer’s disease genetics.The four groups are:
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Penn Researcher Receives $2 million From NIH to Test Macular Degeneration Drug
John Lambris, PhD, the Dr. Ralph and Sallie Weaver Professor of Research Medicine in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, has been awarded a $2 million grant from the National Eye Institute to test a new class of drugs called complement inhibitors in a primate model of age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
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Penn Social Policy & Practice and Law Faculty to Present Domestic Violence Research to Legislators
PHILADELPHIA — Susan B. Sorenson of the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania will present research about gun policy and domestic violence to state legislators in the “Pennsylvania State Briefing: Domestic Violence,” sponsored by Women in Government on Feb. 15, from noon to 2 p.m. at the Pennsylvania Capitol Building in Harrisburg. The event will be hosted by Sen. Christine M. Tartaglione and representatives Chelsea Wagner, Kate Harper, Lynda Schlegel-Culver, Margo Davidson and Rosemary Brown.
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Penn Study Shows Hospital Nurses Dissatisfied With Health Benefits
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have found that nearly 41 per cent of nurses working in American hospitals and health-care settings were dissatisfied with their health-care benefits. The figure is more than double that of nurses working in other settings and indicates broad-based disincentives for attracting nurses to work at the bedside. Nurses, totaling nearly 3 million nationally, comprise the largest segment of the health-care workforce.
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Fels Institute of Government Study Shows Positive Effect of Philadelphia Neighborhood Reinvestment
PHILADELPHIA – A report from the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania details the ways reclamation and redevelopment of vacant property have improved residents’ quality of life in eastern North Philadelphia. The report, “Neighborhood Stabilization and Safety in East North Philadelphia,” highlights how comprehensive strategic investment by local community developers and public agencies correlates with improvements in safety, rising incomes and an attraction of new working households.