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A Q&A with Karen Glanz
Photo credit: Peter Tobia
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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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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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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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Administrator of BP and Sept. 11th Victim-Compensation Funds to Speak at Penn Law School Today
WHO: Kenneth Feinberg WHAT: “Unconventional Responses to Unique Catastrophies” WHEN: Oct. 12, 2010, 4:30 p.m.
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Penn Biologists Say Species Accumulate on Earth at Slower Rates Than in the Past
PHILADELPHIA –- Computational biologists at the University of Pennsylvania say that species are still accumulating on Earth but at a slower rate than in the past.
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Penn conference explores architecture for the elderly
With the number of senior citizens in the United States expected to continue increasing in the decades to come, the need for suitable housing is also expected to rise. In a call to action to find creative as well as pragmatic solutions to providing housing for the elderly, Penn’s School of Design is bringing together more than a dozen experts to discuss the issue.
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Report from Penn’s Fels Institute of Government Shows Positive Results of Urban Investment
PHILADELPHIA –- A new report from the University of Pennsylvania’s Fels Institute of Government shows how public investment guided by strategic planning can produce highly successful results, even within an urban area formerly plagued by high levels of vacancy and abandonment. “Vacant Property Reclamation Through Strategic Investment in Eastern North Philadelphia, 1998-2010“ documents the work of a nonprofit organization in implementing an investment strategy for a section of Philadelphia.
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Penn Public Safety Launches New Service: Penn Guardian
PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania’s Division of Public Safety today launched a new safety service, Penn Guardian, which allows DPS’s emergency communications center, PennComm, to identify the GPS coordinates of registered cell phones. Designed to help DPS emergency responders locate registered users when they need assistance, Penn Guardian is limited to those who register their cell-phone numbers and create online profiles.