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Vice President Biden to speak at School of Social Policy & Practice Commencement
It’s not often that smaller schools within the University of Pennsylvania land big-name commencement speakers. It’s even more rare that someone’s parent serves as the guest speaker at graduation exercises. But, this year, one graduate’s proud dad will speak at the School of Social Policy & Practice’s Commencement on May 17 in the Irvine Auditorium.
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Mathematicians Solve 140-Year-Old Boltzmann Equation
PHILADELPHIA –- Two University of Pennsylvania mathematicians have found solutions to a 140-year-old, 7-dimensional equation that were not known to exist for more than a century despite its widespread use in modeling the behavior of gases.
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Cellular Workouts Strengthen Endothelial Cells' Grasp
PHILADELPHIA –- University of Pennsylvania bioengineers have demonstrated that the cells that line blood vessels respond to mechanical forces — the microscopic tugging and pulling on cellular structures — by reinforcing and growing their connections, thus creating stronger adhesive interactions between neighboring cells.
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Penn alum, astronaut Garrett Reisman returns to space
Photo courtesy of NASA NASA astronaut and Penn alumnus Garrett Reisman is scheduled to go back into space on May 14 aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis. This is the final planned mission for Atlantis, before NASA retires its space shuttle fleet to focus on building new technology and rockets.
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Centers Host Language Programs for High Schoolers, Teachers
PHILADELPHIA -- The South Asia Center and the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania will host summer language programs to teach Hindi, Urdu and Chinese to students entering grades 9-12. The programs, to be taught by Penn faculty, are funded by Startalk, the national effort to enhance Americans’ learning and teaching of less commonly taught languages in high schools.
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School of Nursing Names Recipients of 2010 Teaching Awards
PHILADELPHIA – Seven members of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing have been named recipients of teaching awards for 2010.
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Peter Kuriloff Receives 2010 Excellence in Teaching Award
PHILADELPHIA -– Peter Kuriloff has been honored with the 2010 Excellence in Teaching Award in the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education.
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Pennsylvania lawmakers create first-ever General Assembly Penn Caucus
Photo credit: Carl Socolow From left to right, State Senator Daylin Leach, Kelly Greenleaf, State Senator Stewart Greenleaf and Penn President Amy Gutmann.
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Guthrie Ramsey Co-Curates Smithsonian Institution Exhibition
PHILADELPHIA – Guthrie Ramsey, a University of Pennsylvania music professor, is co-curator of a new exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution called "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment."Presented by the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture in collaboration with the Apollo Theater Foundation, the exhibition premiered in the NMAAHC Gallery in Washington, D.C., continues through Aug. 29. It will travel to Detroit in October and then on to New York in 2011.
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Researchers from Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine have used gene therapy to cure day blindness in dogs—a groundbreaking advance that may help researchers one day restore day sight in humans, as well.