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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

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.

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.

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.

James Baker to Speak at Penn Commencement; Honorees Also Include Aretha Franklin, Ruth Bader Ginsburg

PHILADELPHIA - James A. Baker III, a co-chair of the Iraq Study Group who has served as secretary of state and secretary of the treasury, will deliver the address at the University of Pennsylvania's 251st Commencement on Monday, May 14.As secretary of state under the first President Bush, Baker traveled to more than 90 countries for post-Cold War era diplomatic efforts and formed a coalition of 34 countries opposed to Iraq's intervention in Kuwait.

Penn's Weiss Tech House Announces Student Inventors Headed to PennVention Competition Finals

PHILADELPHIA -- Ten teams of student inventors have been selected to present their prototypes of innovative technologies at the University of Pennsylvania's third annual PennVention competition on April 6 at Penn's Weiss Tech House. Finalists will compete for more than $60,000 in cash and prizes and a chance to launch their products to market.The finalists, chosen for ingenuity and commercialization potential are:

Penn Alexander School Students to Join Role Models in Interactive Videoconference to Celebrate Women's Day

WHAT: In celebration of International Women's Day, the Pennsylvania Commission for Women and MAGPI, the Internet2 provider at the University of Pennsylvania, will co-sponsor an interactive virtual panel discussion and lunch with female role models featured in the commission's book, "Voices,", and school students from grades 6-8 at selected schools across the state.  One of the schools is the Penn Alexander School in West Philadelphia, and the others are in the Montgomery County, Harrisburg and Scranton areas.