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Stocking stuffers
As the saying goes, the best things come in the smallest packages, and stores both on and near campus are well-stocked with plenty of these small gifts. Many of these trinkets are affordable and appropriate for office gift exchanges—maybe with the exception of the temporary tattoos (see below).
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Working like a dog
Because a dog’s sense of smell is a thousand times more sensitive than a human’s, canines are regularly used to detect bombs and other explosives. They sniff out illegal drugs and endangered plants, and they can use their snouts to reveal ailments such as cancer, diabetes and seizures.
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Penn's Marie Gottschalk and Charlene Compher named 2009-10 Fulbright Scholars
Marie Gottschalk and Charlene Compher of the University of Pennsylvania have been awarded 2009-2010 Fulbright Scholarships.
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Penn's Dean of Admissions answers questions on live webcast tonight
Photo credit: Candace diCarlo Eric J. Furda, Penn’s dean of admissions, will be fielding questions from potential students and their parents tonight on a live webcast from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
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Sea Level Is Rising Along U.S. Atlantic Coast, According to Data Analysis by Penn Environmental Scientists
PHILADELPHIA –- An international team of environmental scientists led by the University of Pennsylvania has shown that sea-level rise along the Atlantic Coast of the United States was 2 millimeters faster in the 20th century than at any time in the past 4,000 years.
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University of Pennsylvania Senior Joshua Bennett Wins United Kingdom’s Marshall Scholarship
PHILADELPHIA –- University of Pennsylvania senior Joshua Bennett of Yonkers, New York has won a prestigious United Kingdom Government Marshall Scholarship for graduate studies in the U.K. He is among 35 winners of the prestigious scholarship.
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Penn Scientists Conduct Novel, 10,000-Year Study of Strata Compaction and Sea-Level Rise on English Coast
PHILADELPHIA –- Environmental scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and Durham University have employed a novel combination of geological and model reconstructions of wetland environments during a 10,000-year period to address spatial variations in sea-level history and provide quantitative estimates of subsidence along the east coast of England.
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Penn Professors Marie Gottschalk and Charlene Compher Win 2009-10 Fulbright Scholarships
PHILADELPHIA –- Marie Gottschalk and Charlene Compher of the University of Pennsylvania have been awarded 2009-2010 Fulbright Scholarships.Gottschalk, who researches the welfare state and mass incarceration in America, is professor of political science in the School of Arts and Sciences. She received a short-term grant to travel to Japan to lecture at the Nagoya American Studies Seminar for two weeks this past summer.
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Gutmann Named to Chair Obama’s Bioethics Commission
PHILADELPHIA –- Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania, has been selected by President Obama to chair the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. As head of the commission, Gutmann, president of Penn since 2004 and a prominent political scientist, will advise the President on a range of bioethical issues.