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Trustees' Council of Penn Women to Honor Former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor With Beacon Award

WHAT: The Trustees’ Council of Penn Women will present the Beacon Award to former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. The Beacon Award recognizes an outstanding person or institution that has taken the lead in furthering the advancement of women, through dedicated pursuit of and commitment to issues affecting women, with results that enhance the status of women.WHO:

Penn Researcher Explores a Lost Port City of the Mycenaeans in the Region of the Trojan War

PHILADELPHIA –- Along an isolated stretch of the eastern shoreline of Greece, a University of Pennsylvania classics professor and his colleagues are unlocking the secrets of a partially submerged “lost” harbor town believed to have been built by the Mycenaeans 3,500 years ago.

Penn to Hold Fourth Annual Criminology Day April 4

Penn Launches New Global Business/Environmental Initiative With April 14-16 Conference

 PHILADELPHIA –- The University of Pennsylvania has joined forces with leaders from U.S. businesses, government and non-governmental organizations to launch a new initiative on business and the environment.The Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership, led by Penn’s Wharton School, will address the environmental issues facing businesses today from academic and policy-oriented perspectives. This cross-disciplinary endeavor also includes faculty from Penn’s schools of Arts and Sciences, Design, Engineering and Applied Science, Law and Medicine.

Treatment for addiction-- in its many forms

World-renowned addiction expert Charles O’Brien, of Penn’s Charles O’Brien Center for Addiction Treatment, says addiction is a “physical change in the brain” that causes “compulsive drug-seeking behavior.”

Q&A: Adrian Raine

Photo credit:Candace diCarlo People from all across the political spectrum have their problems with Adrian Raine.

ATLAS to recreate the Big Bang

Penn researchers have played a key role in the development of the ATLAS particle collider in Switzerland. ATLAS will essentially recreate the Big Bang, millions of times each second. Everything about the ATLAS experiment is big. Everything.

Philadelphia Antiques Show

WHAT: The Philadelphia Antiques Show is widely considered to be the country’s premier antiques and decorative arts show, with a loan exhibit and more than 50 dealers and galleries on hand to sell furniture, folk and fine art, ceramics, porcelain, silver and textiles.

Student Spotlight: David Helfenbein

Mark Stehle YOUTH VOTE: Since his early teens, the Political Science/Communications

Staff Q&A: Lorri Schieri

Photo credit: Candace diCarlo Running the administrative arm of an institute that encompasses 400 faculty, students, staff and post-docs, from nine schools at Penn, and involves researchers from three additional institutions, is a big job. And it’s Lorri Schieri’s.