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'XPN expands into central Pa.
Music lovers in central Pennsylvania woke up Halloween morning to find a new alternative on their radio to those tired commercial stations: WXPN. Penn’s renowned radio station, famous for its unique blend of rock, blues, alternative, roots and folk music, can now be heard on 88.7 and 99.7 FM in the Harrisburg, Lancaster, Lebanon, and York areas, as XPN made its first major expansion in years.
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University of Pennsylvania's LGBT Center to Host Gay-Friendly College Admission Fair Dec. 1
WHO: Penn's Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender CenterWHAT: National college admission fair specifically designed for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students to find LGBT-friendly colleges and universitiesWHEN: Dec. 1, 200711 a.m-4:30 p.m.WHERE: Penn LGBT Center3907 Spruce St.The fair provides high school students and their families an opportunity to learn about and meet representatives of colleges and universities that value LGBT students.
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Penn Engineering to Receive Multi-Million-Dollar Design Technology Package from PACE Consortium
PHILADELPHIA - The School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania will receive an in-kind hardware and software contribution totaling approximately $70 million in commercial value from Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education, or PACE, a consortium comprised of General Motors, EDS, Hewlett Packard, Siemens PLM Software, Sun Microsystems and academic partners chosen for their focus on engineering.
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Robert W. Carpick Named Director of Penn's Nanotechnology Institute
Robert W. Carpick has been appointed Penn Director of the Nanotechnology Institute. Carpick is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Carpick replaces former Penn faculty member David Luzzi, founding investigator of the Institute and now dean of engineering at Northeastern University.
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Three University of Pennsylvania Professors Named 2007 AAAS Fellows
PHILADELPHIA - Three faculty members of the University of Pennsylvania have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).This year AAAS recognized 471 members for their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. The new Fellows will be officially inducted February 16 during the 2008 AAAS annual meeting in Boston.The new Penn AAAS Fellows are:
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"Reforming the Indian Banking System: Why It Is Important and What Can Be Done"
WHO: Dr. Raghuram Rajan, professor of finance at the University of Chicago and former economic counselor and director of research,International Monetary FundWHAT: Penn's Center for the Advanced Study of India Nand and Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture SeriesWHERE: Huntsman Hall, 8th floor, Penn's Wharton School, 3730 Walnut St.WHEN: Thursday, Nov. 8, 5 p.m. reception, 6 p.m. lecture
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The Penn Band & John Philip Sousa
Photo credit: University Archives He was America’s “March King,” so it was only fitting that John Philip Sousa paid several visits to the well-regarded Penn Band back in the day.
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Penn team reaches out with new climate-change project
Peter Petraitis has spent much of his career as a marine biologist studying the rocky shores of Maine. So he understands why some might be a tad confused that his latest project is taking him to Mongolia. Which is, after all, a landlocked country.
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How speech sounds convey meaning
Photo credit: Candace diCarlo Researchers have known for years that young children begin acquiring language-learning abilities from a very early age. The outstanding question has always been: How early?
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Penn Veterinarian Completes NIH Collaboration in First-Ever Sequencing of Domestic Cat Genome
PHILADELPHIA - A multi-center, National Institutes of Health-funded report that appears in the scientific journal Genome Research details the first assembly, annotation and comparative analysis of the domestic cat genome, Felis catus. A University of Pennsylvania researcher is on the team.