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Tracing the history of cleanliness
Each day in homes around the world a familiar morning ritual plays out. We wake, bathe, groom and beautify ourselves. Rarely do we pause to consider why.
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Human Rights Activists to Speak at Penn
MEDIA ADVISORY Human Rights Activists to Speak at PennWHO: Karen Greenberg, Center on Law and Security, New York UniversityClemens Nathan, Director, Clemens Nathan Research CentreGermaine Ingram, Philadelphia Folklore Project, moderator WHAT: “Human Rights in the 21st Century”WHEN: April 19, 20091-3 p.m.WHERE: University of Pennsylvania Claudia Cohen Hall 36th Street at Locust Walk
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Why is the Levy Park flag at half-staff?
Dear Benny: What are the criteria for flying the big American flag near College Hall at half-staff? Is the flag lowered when faculty and staff or students die? It seems to be at half-staff on days when flags over municipal and federal buildings are not.—Stars and Stripes Dear Stars, For your answer, we turned to Jeff Hoepfl, an area manager in the Division of Facilities and Real Estate Services, whose area of coverage includes College Hall, which sits on the edge of Blanche Levy Park.
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Penn’s Guest Chef Series to Feature Distrito’s Tim Spinner
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Conflict offers no easy solutions
For more than half a century, the Middle East conflict has been one of the world’s chief foreign policy concerns—a situation that has greatly affected Arabs and Israelis, Christians, Muslims and Jews. Eight successive U.S. presidents have attempted to resolve the issue, and although some have made progress, none have succeeded.
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Staff Q&A/Frank Stamato
Photo credit: Mark Stehle Over the course of the half-century he’s worked for the Penn Libraries, Frank Stamato has held three different job titles—but his outlook has remained the same.
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First Results from Penn's Balloon-Borne Telescope BLAST: Extragalactic Survey Reveals Half the Universe's Starlight
PHILADELPHIA –- After two years spent analyzing data from BLAST, the Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope, physicists are releasing the first results.The study, published in the current issue of Nature, reveals that the Far Infrared Background, or FIRB, originates from individual galaxies some 7 to 10 billion light years away.
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A decade of excellence
Every day, Penn staffers work in creative and innovative ways to make the University run smoothly. For the past decade, Penn has honored some of these notable staff accomplishments with the annual Models of Excellence Award. This employee recognition program has honored staffers in nearly every school and all administrative centers whose accomplishments reflect initiative, leadership, increased efficiency and a deep commitment to service.
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Lights on
Shih-Schön Lin, a post-doctoral research associate in the Polarization Imaging Lab in SEAS, sets up an experiment to test improved low-light image capture for various applications. Photo credit: Mark Stehle
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Four From University of Pennsylvania Win 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship Awards
PHILADELPHIA – A trio of University of Pennsylvania professors from the School of Arts and Sciences and a senior critic in Penn’s School of Design have been awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded 180 Fellowships to artists, scientists and scholars in the United States and Canada from a pool of nearly 3,000 applicants.