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Members of the campus community in need of urgent medical services can rely on Penn’s student-run Medical Emergency Response Team. From Sunday through Saturday, 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., the organization known as MERT assists the Penn Police Department and Philadelphia Fire Department with medical emergencies on campus by providing pre-hospital care.
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PHILADELPHIA — Sowsan Salaam, a 12-year-old sixth-grader from the University of Pennsylvania-assisted partnership school, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Elementary in West Philadelphia, is in Washington, D.C., today, competing against nearly 300 of the best spellers across the country at the Scripps National Spelling Bee this week.This is the third consecutive year that Penn Alexander students have made it to the national competition after ranking at the top of their school’s spelling bee and then taking first place at the regional level.
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Penn’s Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice and Research is launching a groundbreaking program to improve the safety of abused and neglected children. The Field Center is partnering with Montgomery County, Pa., Stewards of Change, Microsoft Corp. and Motorola to design the Information Portability Project—an interoperable, real-time technology system that will allow caseworkers immediate access to critical information about children in need.
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PHILADELPHIA — The Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice and Research at the University of Pennsylvania has announced a partnership with Montgomery County, Pa., Stewards of Change, Microsoft Corp. and Motorola to pilot the Information Portability Project.
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Photo credit: Candace diCarlo In order to get at the heart of taboo subjects—drugs, homelessness, HIV risk and crime—Philippe Bourgois does more than simply study them from afar.
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Dear Benny: I have four children, ages 8 to 17. The school year is nearly over and I want to know—does Penn have any summer programs for children? —Daddy Daycare Dear Daddy Daycare, Do your older kids like the TV show “Lost?”
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Throughout the 2008-09 academic year, the Current will be taking a look at the stories behind some of Penn’s most well-known, and most obscure, pieces of public art. The tour continues with “Pan with Sundial.”
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This time of year, the Morris Arboretum is alive with the sounds of birds chirping and insects buzzing. Every summer, musicians add to that cacophony with the Groovin’ in the Garden concert series, now in its fourth year. For four Thursdays—June 18 and 25 and July 9 and 16—patrons can pack a picnic dinner and settle on a blanket or lawn chairs for an evening of outdoor music. Concerts begin at 7 p.m., but the thirsty may want to show up at 6 p.m. for the free beer tastings that precede each show, courtesy of Flourtown Beverage Company.
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WHAT:"40 Winks with the Sphinx" is the Penn Museum’s new sleepover program for children ages 6-12, their parents, or an adult chaperone (21 years or older).