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Dedicated to Nature Penn President Amy Gutmann is scheduled to speak at a dedication ceremony for The Morris Arboretum’s new $13 million Horticulture Center at Bloomfield Farm, across the street from the Arboretum’s public garden, on Oct. 5. Philadelphia philanthropist Dorrance Hamilton, a key supporter of the Horticulture Center, is also expected to attend the invitation-only event. Also in attendance will be Peter and Bonnie McCausland, long-time Morris Arboretum supporters and now, the Arboretum’s new neighbors at Erdenheim Farm.
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A Q&A with Karen Glanz
Photo credit: Peter Tobia
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Blow Them Horns Like Coltrane
Four-time Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard is probably best known for his work with acclaimed writer/director/producer Spike Lee, having scored Lee’s “Miracle at St. Anna,” “Inside Man,” “She Hate Me,” “The 25th Hour,” “Bamboozled,” “Jungle Fever” and “Malcolm X,” among others.
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Penn Vet awards help students advance veterinary medicine
Top: Fourth-year Penn Vet student Nikkita Patel.
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A link between asthma and violence?
Asthma morbidity is disproportionately high in low-income, inner-city communities. According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, African Americans are three times more likely to die from asthma, and African-American women have the highest asthma mortality rate of all groups.
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WXPN holds The Key to Philly’s music scene
Songs—in the key of Philly—have a new online home. WXPN, Penn’s renowned rock radio station, rolled out its latest endeavor, a website called The Key, in early September. At thekey.xpn.org, music fans will find blanket coverage of the thriving Philadelphia scene, a vibrant and diverse one that’s growing every day.
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Pepper Mill Café
WHAT: The Pepper Mill Café is the new eatery at the Penn Museum, located at 3260 South St. The café is open to the public from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Monday; 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday; 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday; and 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
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Laramie epilogue
In 1998, Matthew Shepard was abducted, brutally beaten and left to die, lashed to a fence in Laramie, Wyo. At the time, a group of actors with the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to the town to interview its residents about the tragedy. From those 200 interviews they created the watershed play “The Laramie Project,” which has become one of the most performed plays in America today.
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Staff Q&A / Sam Starks
Photo credit: Candace diCarlo Executive Order 11246, signed by President Lyndon Johnson on Sept. 24, 1965, prohibited any contractor doing business with the government from discriminating against any employee or applicant because of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
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Students host TEDxPenn forum on campus
Inspired by the innovative knowledge seminars known as TED that originated in California, students at Penn have started their own TEDxPenn event, scheduled to take place from noon until 5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 1, at the Bruce Montgomery Theatre in the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.