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Rae

WHERE: Rae is located in the Cira Centre, next to 30th Street Station, at 2929 Arch Street.

Silent spring? Bee disease spreads

As beekeeper for Penn’s Morris Arboretum in Chestnut Hill, Jim Bobb plays a key role in keeping the arboretum’s spectacular gardens blooming strong. Not as key as his bees, though.

Do you like me as much as I like you?

Candace diCarlo Grace Kao is fascinated with friendship. The Penn sociology associate professor has spent much of her 10 years here pondering what it means to have a friend, who befriends whom and whether having a best friend translates into better grades in the middle and high school years.

Olympic Gold Medalist and WNBA Star Sheryl Swoopes to Speak at University of Pennsylvania

WHO: Sheryl Swoopes, Olympic gold medalist and WNBA most valuable playerWHEN: 8 p.m., Tuesday, March 20, 2007 WHERE: Harrison Auditorium University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology33rd and Spruce streetsSwoopes is the keynote speaker for QPenn 2007, a series of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender awareness events at the University of Pennsylvania from March 19 to 28.  Swoopes is an out lesbian who is a three-time Olympic gold medalist and three-time WNBA most valuable player.

R. Tait McKenzie

Professor of war

Photo credit: Candace diCarlo American universities offer courses in just about everything these days: Ancient languages and nanotechnology, environmentalism and economics, cyberculture and the history of rock ’n roll. But Arthur Waldron says there’s one class that, curiously, most college students won’t find in their course catalog: Warfare 101.

Kathy Wohlschlaeger

The Current Staff Photo credit: Mark Stehle NAME: Peggy Dever YEARS AT PENN: 3 WHO SHE IS: Hard Surface Custodian, Housekeeping What she does: “We clean up and empty trash. I have a certain area, Levy Park and Penn Commons.” WHY GOOD WEATHER MEANS MORE WORK: “When you get a nice day you get a lot of trash. People enjoy being out.”

Penn creates new TV Spots

Penn has developed three new TV spots that highlight the University’s long tradition of ingenuity and entrepreneurship. The 30-second spots focus on three exceptional alumni—John Heisman, Andrea Mitchell and John Legend—who recognize how Penn inspired them to innovate and find success in their chosen fields of football, journalism and music.

Jam session

Pianist Timothy Wortham Jr., an annual giving officer for the School of Social Policy and Practice, and trumpeter Bart Miltenberger from the Office of Alumni Relations, joined up for an impromptu jam session recently at Fisher-Bennett Hall. Photo credit: Mark Stehle

Penn Law and Wharton to Host 41 Professional Middle Eastern Women for Legal/Business Fellowship Program

PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania Law School, Penn's Wharton School and the National Council for International Visitors are working with America-Mideast Educational and Training Services Inc. to implement the Legal and Business Fellowship Program.  The LBFP is funded by the U.S Department of State Middle East Partnership Initiative.