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Earn quick cash by participating in (nonmedical) Penn research experiments
At research labs across Penn’s campus, students, staff and faculty are participating in research experiments on human behavior, and making a little pocket money for their efforts.
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'The Obama Victory' Honored With American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence
The Obama Victory: How Media, Money, and Message Shaped the 2008 Election has been honored with the 2010 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) in the area of government & politics. Each year the PROSE Awards recognize the best professional and scholarly books, journals, and electronic publications for outstanding contributions to their fields.
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Snow day at school? Use Penn’s Snow Day Child Care
Some schools in the Philadelphia region can close hours before the first snowflake even touches the ground, but Penn very rarely shuts down due to inclement weather, leaving many parents or guardians scrambling to find a babysitter for their children.
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ENIAC Day to celebrate dedication of Penn’s historic computer
Philadelphia City Council has officially declared Feb. 15 as “ENIAC Day,” celebrating the 65th anniversary of the historic computer’s dedication at Penn, and the beginning of the digital age that it helped to usher in. The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, or ENIAC, was built to calculate ballistic trajectories for the Army during World War II, a time- and labor-intensive process that had previously been performed by teams of mathematicians working with mechanical calculators. Under the direction of John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert of Penn’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering (now the School of Engineering and Applied Science), construction of the 27-ton, 680-square-foot computer began in July 1943 and was announced to the public on Feb. 14, 1946. As the first electronic general-purpose computer, ENIAC was a major step forward from its technological predecessors: calculating machines that had their roots in ancient math tools like the abacus.
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Young Friends event spills secrets inside little black book of prostitution
Prostitution has often been dubbed “the oldest profession” for its seemingly persistent presence throughout human history. In his 1939 article on the “History of Prostitution,” published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, author F. Arnold Clarkson wrote that the earliest human records, about 4000 B.C.E., make reference to sex workers.
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Immune Cells Protect Body from Invaders, According to Penn Researchers
PHILADELPHIA - So-called barrier sites -- the skin, gut, lung – limit the inner body’s exposure to allergens, pollutants, viruses, bacteria, and parasites. Understanding how the immune system works in these external surfaces has implications for understanding such inflammatory diseases as asthma, psoriasis, IBD, and food allergies, all of which occur at the body’s barriers.
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Penn student provides eyewitness account of uprising in Egypt
Photo Credit: Eric Trager Eric Trager, a Ph.D. candidate in Penn’s Political Science Department, was in Cairo when demonstrations against the Mubarak regime erupted and turned violent.
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D. Hayes Agnew Memorial Pavilion
The D. Hayes Agnew Memorial Pavilion on Spruce Street, near 34th Street, was considered a cutting-edge medical facility when it opened in 1897.
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Silk Road
The Penn Museum exhibition “Secrets of the Silk Road” tells the story of a set of ancient trade routes that connected China, India, Central Asia, the Middle East and parts of Africa and Europe. The path for anyone traveling along the Silk Road was through the Tarim Basin. Although the trade route was named after the silk exported from China, many other luxury goods, such as precious stones and metals, ivory, glass, perfume, spices and paper, were also commonly transported on its various paths.
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Q&A with Victor Mair
In 1988, Victor Mair was leading a Smithsonian tour group through the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Museum in China when he saw something that stopped him dead in his tracks. Behind a pair of heavy black curtains lay a room full of amazingly well-preserved mummies in glass cases. So well-preserved, in fact, that Mair, a professor of Chinese language and literature in the School of Arts and Sciences, thought the mummies and their belongings belonged in a Madame Tussauds Wax Museum.