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University of Pennsylvania Honored in Newly Published ‘Guide to 286 Green Colleges’
PHILADELPHIA –- The University of Pennsylvania has been acknowledged as one of the country’s most environmentally responsible schools, according to the Princeton Review, which partnered with the U.S. Green Building Council to create “The Princeton Review’s Guide to 286 Green Colleges.”
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Penn Vet cures inherited form of day blindness in dogs
Using gene therapy, ophthalmology researchers from Penn's School of Veterinary Medicine have treated dogs with congenital achromatopsia, restoring their day vision in what appears to be a permanent cure for a form of blindness that also affects humans.
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Penn’s Center for Technology Transfer Unveils the UPSTART Company Formation Program
PHILADELPHIA –- Penn’s Center for Technology Transfer introduces UPSTART, a program aimed at developing Penn intellectual property by helping faculty form new companies based on their inventions and technological innovations.
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Penn Dining Observing Earth Day With Low Carbon Eats
WHAT: A “Low Carbon Diet Day” in observance of Earth Day, during which the menu in the University of Pennsylvania dining halls will feature foods with a low carbon footprint WHO: By serving foods that contribute less greenhouse-gas emission, Bon Appétit at Penn Dining will inform consumers about reducing their carbon impact. Diners can track their carbon use Bon Appetit's Low Carbon Diet calculator at: http://www.eatlowcarbon.org/
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Penn Dental Medicine Students Take Part in Oral Cancer Walk April 24 on Penn Campus
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Penn researcher podcasts about childhood obesity epidemic
The shockingly high number of overweight children in America continues to make headlines and many leaders, including First Lady Michelle Obama, are taking action.
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Penn senior featured as proponent for peace at Clinton Global Initiative University
When Sam Adelsberg, C’10, first talked politics with Bill Clinton in 2005, he was working as an intern at the Clinton Foundation. At a meeting where the interns were able to ask the former President questions, Adelsberg asked Clinton to share his thoughts on how to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Clinton said improving the Palestinian economy would be a major inroad to peace. “I had never encountered the conflict from this dimension,” says Adelsberg, an Orthodox Jew who studied the Talmud in a yeshiva during a gap year before coming to Penn. “It was always us vs. them.”
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Penn’s GRASP Laboratory Celebrates National Robotics Week With Open House, Turns All Projects "On”
MEDIA ADVISORY & PHOTO OPPORTUNITYWHO:Robotics researchers from the University of Pennsylvania GRASP Laboratory host an open house for area high school students, media and the public to observe National Robotics Week. Current Penn projects from modular, self-moving robots and aerial vehicles to tele-immersion and omni-directional vision will be "on."WHAT:
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UPSTART program offers Penn business acumen to entrepreneurs
Many people dream of starting their own company, but they often are not sure where to start.
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Open House celebrates new Music Building
Staff, faculty and students are invited to “Opus 2010: A New Home for Music at Penn,” a themed open house on Friday, April 16, to celebrate Penn’s newly renovated and expanded Music Building. The event runs from 2:30 to 5:00 p.m. at the Department of Music, 201 S. 34th St.