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Assessing the good and the bad in new federal financial reform
In the wake of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, America’s confidence in the U.S. government’s ability to regulate big banks and insurance conglomerates has been severely shaken.
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Penn accepts 2011 RecycleMania challenge
RecycleMania, the annual waste reduction and recycling competition, kicks off on Sunday, Feb. 6, at 600 colleges and universities across the country. This eight-week contest pits schools against each other in a friendly rivalry to determine which institution can out-recycle the others and minimize waste.
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Penn breaks ground for nanotechnology center
On Feb. 17, Penn President Amy Gutmann will join University Trustees and the deans of the Schools of Arts and Sciences (SAS) and Engineering and Applied Science at the 3200 block of Walnut Street for a groundbreaking ceremony for the Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology.
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'Post-Mao Dreaming'
WHAT: The show at the Arthur Ross Gallery (220 S. 34th St.) is “Post-Mao Dreaming: Chinese Contemporary Art,” which opened on Jan. 22 and runs through April 3.
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Women’s hoops team takes charges for a cure
Dear Benny: I attended the Penn women’s basketball team’s recent nail-biter against La Salle and heard about a “Cure for the Charge” initiative the team has taken up to raise money for charities. Can you tell me more?—Penn Basketball Superfan Dear PBS, Thank you for your question. The actual name of the program is “Charge for a Cure.” The Penn women’s basketball team is dedicating their entire 2010-11 season to the fight against several debilitating diseases, and they are doing so by taking charges.
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Fels study shows Free Library’s economic impact
It’s not easy to put a price on the acquisition of knowledge, professional development and community pride. But that is precisely what officials at the Free Library of Philadelphia asked Penn’s Fels Institute of Government to do by creating an economic impact report quantifying the value of the city’s vast library system in dollars and cents.
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Penn GSE Researcher Awarded $1.5 Million to Study “Models of Success” at Minority-Serving Institutions
PHILADELPHIA — Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, has been awarded a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the Lumina Foundation for Education, USA Funds and the Kresge Foundation. Consisting of $500,000 from each of the funding agencies, the grant will be used to study “models of success” that help students finish their degrees at minority-serving institutions, including historically black colleges and universities, Hispanic-serving institutions and Native American tribal colleges.
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Penn profs draft Philly barbers to ‘build better brothers’
Barbershops are traditionally bastions for male bonding. They are places where men can engage in spirited debates about sports and politics, where they can have racy conversations about sex, with barbers serving as unofficial moderators of the free flowing dialogue.
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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.