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The Tiffany & Co. Foundation Gives $2 Million to Penn for HIV/AIDS Treatment Center in Botswana

PHILADELPHIA -- The Botswana-UPenn Partnership has received a $2 million grant from The Tiffany & Co. Foundation to join with the Botswana Ministry of Health in building a facility for HIV/AIDS treatment in Botswana and to support the University of Pennsylvania's health-care initiative through clinical care, education and research. Set for construction on the grounds of the Princess Marina Hospital in Gaborone, the facility will help Penn impact the people of Botswana who are affected by HIV/AIDS as well as improve HIV-related research and medical education.

Trials of the working poor

In researching her 2006 book, “Jobs Aren’t Enough: Toward a New Economic Mobility for Low-Income Families,” Roberta Iversen spent five years tracking 25 American families living week-to-week, month-to-month, paycheck-to-paycheck. Most of the time, Iversen says, they weren’t getting by.

Class of 1949 Generational Bridge

Staff Q&A/Eric Halpern

Photo credit: Mark Stehle A dozen years ago, Eric Halpern took the helm of a Penn Press that published a mere 50 books a year, with minimal attention to design and promotion. It was, as he says today, a press not held in particularly high esteem.

Strange alliances along the border

In what he described as an effort to “help protect the American people,” President Bush signed the Secure Fence Act in 2006, authorizing the federal government to take a series of steps to secure the U.S./Mexican border.

Public Invited to Penn Seminar on the State of Muslim Radicalization in Europe

WHAT:Dr. Peter Neumann of King’s College London will discuss the European Commission-funded study, “Recruitment and Mobilization for the Islamist Militant Movement in Europe.” This study, and others, will form the basis for EU policy making in preventing violent radicalization. Based on secondary research as well as extensive fieldwork in Britain, France and Spain, the report provides the most comprehensive picture of the methods through which Islamist militants in Europe mobilize supporters and find new recruits. WHO:

Penn makes the grade in sustainability

Last month, the Cambridge, Mass.-based Sustainable Endowments Institute issued the latest edition of its College Sustainability Report Card, an annual review of the environmental sustainability efforts being made by colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. Of the nearly 300 schools surveyed in the report, only 15 received an A-minus—the highest grade awarded this year. Penn was one of them.

Nano in action

Douglas M. Yates, technical director of the Penn Regional Nanotechnology Center, studies samples using a state-of-the-art field emission transmission electron microscope. Photo credit: Mark Stehle

Penn Law to Hold Visual Legal Advocacy Roundtable

WHO:Regina Austin, University of Pennsylvania Law professor Michael Wong, Penn Law student Gretchen Berland, Yale Medical School professor Carol Jacobsen, University of Michigan professor Margie Smith, Think Tank FilmsWHAT: “Building Video Bridges”WHEN: Oct. 17, 2008 WHERE:

Penn to Host Fiscal Wake-Up Tour