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University comes together to fight cancer
By The Current Staff Each spring, students, faculty, staff and alumni gather at Penn to honor cancer survivors and those who have lost their battles with the disease. At the Relay for Life fundraiser, teams and individuals took turns walking around the Franklin Field track all night, symbolizing the fact that cancer does not sleep. This year’s event, held March 27 to 28, had more than 1,800 participants and raised about $150,000. The group hopes to raise $200,000 by August.
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Penn GSE Professor Named Fellow of the International Youth Library in Munich
PHILADELPHIA — Lawrence Sipe, a professor in the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, has been named a Fellow of Munich’s International Youth Library, a collection of more than 600,000 children’s books. The fellowship began on March 1 and will end May 31. Sipe is an authority in early-childhood literacy development.
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University of Pennsylvania Is First Civilian Site in Nation to Complete Radiological Security Program
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania has been recognized, along with the City of Philadelphia, for national security leadership. The announcement was made by the National Nuclear Security Administration today during a forum on campus.
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Penn Nursing Dean Inducted Into Girl Scouts "Take the Lead" Hall of Fame
PHILADELPHIA — Afaf Meleis, the dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, was inducted into the “Take the Lead” Hall of Fame by the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania earlier this week at an awards ceremony at the Four Seasons Hotel.
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Penn Biologists Demonstrate that Size Matters…in Snail Shells
PHILADELPHIA –- A team of biologists at the University of Pennsylvania has completed a research study begun in 1915 and determined that a snail making its home in the northwest Atlantic Ocean around Mount Desert Island, Me., has experienced a dramatic increase in the size of its shell during less than a century, providing a clear illustration of how fast and effectively change can occur.The study is published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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An opera, first animated, now comes to the stage
John Kindness Wendy Steiner believes musical theater is more than just song and dance. “Showboat,” she points out, examined racism in the Deep South. “West Side Story” illuminated gang violence.
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Writing in a community
According to Kelly Writers House Director Jessica Lowenthal, the art of writing happens best in a community. “People write well when they’re writing in concert,” Lowenthal says. “There’s a sense that there’s an immediate audience, but also a sense that there’s feedback from people you trust before you put the work out there.”
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Thinking big
Photo credit: Candace diCarlo Marilyn Jordan Taylor says it’s a great time to be thinking big about design.
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Paradise found
John Moore, "A Fine Fall Day," 2008, oil on canvas As a child, John Moore would play in the vacant back lots of factories in Wellston, a working-class neighborhood in St. Louis. It’s a neighborhood Moore compares to Kensington and North Philadelphia—the kind of places “where there’s a mix of manufacturing and residential all kind of juxtaposed together.”
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Student Spotlight: Nancy Tsang
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