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PHILADELPHIA –- While the nation will celebrate Earth Day on April 22, the Green Campus Partnership at the University of Pennsylvania offers a slate of green events throughout the month because a single day just isn’t enough.Among April’s major announcements will be the results of the 10-week RecycleMania contest, and GreenFund grant winners will be announced.
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PHILADELPHIA -- University of Pennsylvania Law School students’ work on the Supreme Court case, Padilla v. Kentucky has resulted in the Court ruling in their favor. The Supreme Court decision means that lawyers must tell non-citizen criminal defendants whether pleading guilty to a crime could lead to their deportation.
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The memory of Penn physician Bernett L. Johnson Jr. was honored by word, deed and song on Tuesday, but will remain most visibly remembered at the West Philadelphia community medical center that his wife Mary Martha called “the culmination of his life’s work.”
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MEDIA ADVISORY WHAT: A renaming ceremony for the Sayre Health Center, a full-service, primary care health facility at the rear of Sayre High School, 59th and Walnut streets, in honor of the late Bernett L. Johnson, who was a physician at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the founding co-chair of the center’s board of directors. A scholarship presentation in his honor to a Sayre High School graduate and a ribbon-cutting ceremony will be followed by refreshments.
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WHAT: This year, Passover begins on March 29 and runs through April 5. At Penn, Passover events have a home in Penn Hillel, the hub of Jewish life on campus. Penn Hillel is located in Steinhardt Hall at 215 S. 39th St.
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Water is ubiquitous. We bathe in it, consume it and cook with it. We paddle over it, dive into it and skim the surface of it. And we witness political battles that are waged over it, communities across the globe that search for ways to get it and artists who seek to capture the spirit of water in art, poetry and literature.
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Photo credit: Mark Stehle Joe Neary was a cheerleader for four years as an undergrad at the University of South Carolina, an experience he enjoyed so much that he decided to become a cheerleading coach.
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The airline industry’s frequent-flyer programs might want to take a lesson from Penn’s new frequent-buyer club cards. They’re more generous and a lot easier to use.
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We’ve searched every cyber nook and virtual cranny of the web to find Penn mentions, contributions and attractions. Here are some of the University community’s most interesting online attractions.
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PHILADELPHIA –- Citing the University of Pennsylvania’s strong student demand and yield, good progress on its current Making History $3.5 billion fundraising campaign and robust research funding, Moody’s Investor Service has reaffirmed Penn’s Aa2 rating with a stable outlook. “We're very pleased,” Stephen D. Golding, Penn's vice president for finance and treasurer, said. “In continuing this rating, Moody's also took note of our solid balance sheet and sustained operating performance. Given the financial challenges of the past two years, this is quite encouraging.”