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Penn Vet extends exclusive pet services to University faculty and staff
Veterinarian Michael Moyer, the Rosenthal Director of Shelter Animal Medicine at Penn Vet and head of Community Practice, gives a dog a checkup, with assistance from a student. Penn Vet’s Matthew J.
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Nine from Penn Selected as American Council of Learned Societies 2010 Fellows and Grantees
PHILADELPHIA – Nine scholars from the University of Pennsylvania have been awarded American Council of Learned Societies fellowships and grants.ACLS is a private, nonprofit federation of 70 national scholarly organizations. Its mission is "the advancement of humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and the social sciences and the maintenance and strengthening of relations among the national societies devoted to such studies."Penn fellows and grantees are:
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Penn Vet students blog about treating animals in Nepal
Third-year Penn Vet student Lauren Aldinger gives an injection to an animal in Nepal. Three Penn Vet students are blogging about their summer experience of treating rural animals in Nepal and helping to train community members there in basic animal health and husbandry.
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Penn Ranks Among Computerworld's Best Places to Work in IT
PHILADELPHIA– June 22, 2010 – The University of Pennsylvania announces that IDG’s Computerworld Magazine has ranked Penn’s Information Systems & Computing organization #5 nationally and #1 in the Mid-Atlantic region in its 2010 Best Places To Work In IT survey. This is the sixth consecutive year the organization has been ranked #1 in the Mid-Atlantic. The survey recognizes employers that challenge their IT staff with interesting and exciting projects while providing great benefits
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Platelet Avatars: Penn Bioengineers Create Simulator to Test Blood Platelets in Virtual Heart Attacks
PHILADELPHIA –- A team of bioengineers from the University of Pennsylvania Institute for Medicine and Engineering have trained a computer neural network model to accurately predict how blood platelets would respond to complex conditions found during a heart attack or stroke.
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Newsweek Correspondent Howard Fineman to Teach Mini-Courses at Penn
PHILADELPHIA – Howard Fineman, Newsweek columnist, senior editor and deputy Washington bureau chief, will teach a pair of multi-session mini-courses at the University of Pennsylvania this fall. Fineman will survey the history of American politics in fictional and non-fictional literature, discuss and analyze coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign and survey coverage of the 2010 midterm elections.
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Silk Road Summer Nights Kicks Off June 23
The sounds of summer in West Philadelphia, on Penn's campus, just got sweeter. Penn Museum's Silk Road Summer Nights music series offers city residents, commuters, and happy hour denizens an introduction to the music of the Silk Road.
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Andrea Mitchell, Rosemary Mazanet Named Campaign Co-Chairs of Making History at Penn
PHILADELPHIA -- Andrea Mitchell and Dr. Rosemary Mazanet have been named co-chairs of the University of Pennsylvania’s Making History: The Campaign for Penn. The announcement was made by Penn President Amy Gutmann at the June meeting of the Board of Trustees.
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Penn Physicists Honored With 2010 Europhysics Prize
PHILADELPHIA -- Charles Kane and Eugene Mele of the University of Pennsylvania are among five scientists awarded the 2010 Europhysics Prize of the European Physical Society Condensed Matter Division for the theoretical prediction and experimental observation of the quantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators.
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Sex, Drugs and Moral Goals: A Penn Psychology Study of Reproductive Strategies and Recreational Drug Use
PHILADELPHIA –- Why is there so much disagreement about whether using recreational drugs is morally wrong? A University of Pennsylvania psychology study shows that the debate about drugs might really be about sex.The study compared two competing theories.One theory -- the conventional wisdom in political science -- sees drug attitudes as primarily coming from people's political ideology, level of religious commitment, and personality, for example, openness to experience.