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Penn senior Steve Balcerski pitches to batter Chase Park. Park, who was visiting from Emory University, joined Balcerski for a game of wiffle ball on College Green. Photo credit: Mark Stehle
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The Penn Science Café Presents: \"Recall! Lifting the Pet Food Fog\"
WHO: Kathryn E. Michel, chief, Section of Medicine School of Veterinary Medicine, University of PennsylvaniaWHAT: The Penn Science Caf lecture series, free and open to the public, takes science out of the laboratory and treats it to a night on the town. The Caf is your chance to ask leading experts your questions about science.WHERE: The MarBar, 40th and Walnut streets, PhiladelphiaWHEN: Tuesday, May 15, 6 p.m.Doors open at 5:30 p.m.Menu items are available for purchase.
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Penn Club
Photo credit: University Archives Penn’s Club of New York opened, in 1900, in four ground-floor rooms in the Royalton Hotel.
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Lessons on winning, in sports and business
Running a professional sports franchise isn’t all that different from running a large company: In sports, as in business, teams must make money to survive. But owners of sports franchises face one expectation that most Fortune 500 CEOs don’t: Besides posting profits, they’ve got to win championships, too.
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Penn Nursing's LIFE Program for Seniors Opens Facility That's Gone from Community Eyesore to Asset
WHAT: The grand opening of a new facility for the Living Independently for Elders, or LIFE program, a community outreach of the School of Nursing of the University of Pennsylvania. LIFE provides nursing home-level day care, including medical, dental and personal grooming services and social activities, for more than 300 frail elderly from West Philadelphia who are nursing home-eligible but prefer to live in their own homes. The LIFE staff also make house calls, providing in-home oversight to members.
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Incivility in American Politics: Is the U.S. at Risk for Disaster in Political Discourse? Are Voters Fed Up?
WASHINGTON - Elected officials and university scholars will examine incivility in politics and the increasing polarization of policy debate at the Penn Conference on Civility and American Politics April 30 on Capitol Hill. Conference participants will discuss whether, in a time of increasingly rancorous political discourse, the United States is reaching a tipping point that makes incivility a bad political strategy and a worse governance strategy and whether this has implications for the 2008 presidential election.
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Great Expectations Deliberation Days Held May 2-6
WHO: Philadelphia City Council candidatesWHAT: Great Expectations, a year-long project to connect Philadelphia's citizens' hopes and ideas for their city to the political process, is a partnership between the Philadelphia Inquirer and the University of Pennsylvania, with funding from the Lenfest and Knight foundations.WHERE&WHEN:May 2-6, 2007; various locations in each of the 10 City Council districts.
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Penn Vet Announces World Leadership and Student Inspiration Awards
PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine has launched the first veterinary medicine awards of its kind designed to recognize innovation, creativity and leadership in the veterinary profession anywhere in the world. The Penn Vet World Leadership in Animal Health Award will be presented annually to a veterinarian who has dramatically changed the practice and image of the profession and substantially influenced the lives and careers of others. The award will provide $100,000 in unrestricted funding.
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Penn Historian Discovers Evidence Documenting First European Voyage Up the Delaware
PHILADELPHIA - A University of Pennsylvania scholar has pinpointed 1616 as the year of the first European voyage up the Delaware River.Jaap Jacobs, a senior fellow at Penn's McNeil Center for Early American Studies, detailed his findings in a paper, "Truffle Hunting with an Iron Hog: The First Dutch Voyage up the Delaware River," presented to the McNeil Center Seminar Series on April 20.
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Penn Physicists Develop Force Law for Granular Impacts: Sand, Other Granular Matter's Behavior Is Better Defined
PHILADELPHIA -- Sand. A single grain is tiny, but solid, and shares the physical properties of other solid matter. But pack or transport millions of grains together - as modern society does with coffee grounds, flour and industrial chemicals - and granular materials act differently, baffling engineers. They take the shape of their containers and flow freely, like liquids. In certain circumstances, they exert pressure like a gas. The basic lack of behavioral knowledge contributes to wasted resources and energy, as well as erosion and other natural phenomena.