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Penn GSE Launches U.S.-China Future Leaders Program
PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education-International is partnering with Beijing University and East China Normal University to create the U.S.-China Future Leaders Program to develop close relationships among young leaders and improve mutual understanding and respect.Twenty students from universities in the U.S. and China are participating in this two-month program. For one month the students will live in China and for one month they will live in the U.S.
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Making History Campaign Co-Chair Makes $5 Million Gift to Endow University PIK Professorship
PHILADELPHIA -- University of Pennsylvania Trustee Robert M. Levy and Diane v.S. Levy have made a $5 million gift designated for faculty support. The gift will be used to endow a Penn Integrates Knowledge Professorship, which will be named the Diane v.S. and Robert M. Levy University Professorship.The announcement was made by Penn President Amy Gutmann.
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Law School breaks ground for new building
Donor Perry Golkin (left) joins Law School Dean Michael Fitts at the groundbreaking of the school's new building. With the plunge of a shovel, Penn Law School Dean Michael Fitts led the groundbreaking ceremony for construction of Golkin Hall on July 22, a new structure that will replace Pepper Hall.
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First Step Towards Electronic DNA Sequencing: Translocation Through Graphene Nanopores
PHILADELPHIA –- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a new, carbon-based nanoscale platform to electrically detect single DNA molecules. Using electric fields, the tiny DNA strands are pushed through nanoscale-sized, atomically thin pores in a graphene nanopore platform that ultimately may be important for fast electronic sequencing of the four chemical bases of DNA based on their unique electrical signature.
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Last chance to join the locker lottery at the Pottruck Center
The Pottruck Center is 19,000 square feet of everything your physically-fit heart desires: free weights, elliptical machines, treadmills and exercise bikes, dance and martial arts studios, an Olympic-size pool, basketball courts, a Pilates studio, a climbing wall, you name it.
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Keep Fido and Fluffy healthy during the summer with tips from Penn Vet
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the first six months of 2010 have been the warmest ever recorded around the globe, and the dog days of August haven’t even arrived yet. Most of us know that children and the elderly are especially susceptible to heat-related ailments, but pets are vulnerable, too.
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Abramson Cancer Center now offers acupuncture
To help cancer patients better cope with the side effects of chemotherapy, radiation and other treatments, and to help cancer survivors bounce back faster, the Abramson Cancer Center is offering acupuncture as a supplement to conventional medical care.
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Art meets science at Burrison Gallery
“Ganglion" by Greg Dunn At the Burrison Gallery, located inside the University Club at the Inn at Penn, the artwork of graduate student Greg Dunn couples art with science in an eye-catching exhibit.
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Penn GSE Prof Earns 2010 Ozell Sutton Medallion of Justice for Impact on Historically Black Colleges
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Collaboration Leads to Simpler Method for Building Varieties of Nanocrystal Superlattices
PHILADELPHIA –- Collaboration by chemists, physicists and materials scientists at the University of Pennsylvania has created a simple and inexpensive method to rapidly grow centimeter-scale membranes of binary nanocrystal superlattices, or BNSLs, by crystallizing a mixture of nanocrystals on a liquid surface.