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College 101 for teenagers
This month a dozen or so Philadelphia high school students will participate in a mock trial at Penn Law. Another group will study and handle human brains and a third will create and teach an educational project to younger students. The teens will be on campus for five weeks as part of a new initiative created by the Philadelphia School District in partnership with Penn’s Office of the Provost.
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Life on the ocean wave offers change of pace for data analyst
Ed Stemmler has seen pelicans, dolphins and whales on the open water. He’s sailed through dense fog and glorious sunsets, and been up and down the Atlantic coast, all in the Gazela—a Philadelphia-based large sailing vessel built in 1883.
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Staff Q&A: Lizza Robb
STAFF Q&A/Lizza Robb works from home. And since home is a popular Mt. Airy restaurant, life sometimes seems like one big feast for this SP2 staffer. “They actually get more out of me if I work from home.”
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Alumnus Gives $1 Million to Penn Engineering and Law
PHILADELPHIA -- A $1 million gift from Harold and Renee Berger will benefit the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Law School at the University of Pennsylvania.The gift will create the Harold and Renee Berger Auditorium and Lobby in Skirkanich Hall, the new bioengineering facility, and the Law School's Harold and Renee Berger Seminar Room. It will also support annual giving at the Law School.
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Quick Reaction "Chromophores" Emerge as New Class of Semiconductors, Suitable for Nanoscale Electronics
PHILADELPHIA -- The future of high-speed electronics might very well be defined by linking together small, "electrically jumpy" molecules called chromophores. According to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and St. Josephs University, electrical charges can zip along chains of linked chromophores faster than any electrical charge yet observed in organic semiconductors, beating the previous benchmark in this regard by a factor of three.
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Live on the Web: What Incoming Freshmen Want to Know About the College at Penn
PHILADELPHIA-- Incoming freshmen in the University of Pennsylvania's College of Arts and Sciences can register for courses and communicate with academic advisors face-to-face before the fall semester begins without stepping foot on campus thanks to a series of live webcasts. Participants can submit questions before and during the webcasts July 12, 2-3 p.m. (EDT), and July 26, 6-7 p.m. (EDT), by logging onto www.college.upenn.edu/freshmen/webcast/index.html.
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The Penn Science Cafe Presents: A Physicist Looks at the Phenomena of Vision
The Penn Science Cafe Presents:Let There Be Light: A Physicist Looks at the Phenomena of VisionWhat: The Penn Science Cafe, a lecture series open to the public that takes science out of the laboratory and treats it to a night on the town. The Penn Science Cafe can be your chance to ask your questions directly to leading experts. WHO: Vijay Balasubramanian, professor of physics and astronomyWHERE: The MarBar 40th and Walnut streets, Philadelphia
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Ch'ien and McMorris Are Named Penn Trustees
PHILADELPHIA -- Raymond K. F. Ch'ien and Marc F. McMorris have been named term trustees at the University of Pennsylvania. Ch'ien's term began June 16; McMorris' will begin Oct. 27.Ch'ien, who holds a Ph.D. in economics from Penn, is executive chairman of chinadotcom Corp., a software and mobile-applications provider. He is also an outside director of HSBC Holdings PLC, the third-largest bank in the world, and chairman of MTR, the public transportation system of Hong Kong.
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Penn ISC Division in Computerworld's National Top 10 List of 100 Best Places to Work in IT
PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania's Division of Information Systems & Computing has been selected by IDG's Computerworld as the ninth top workplace for information-technology professionals nationwide and as No. 1 in the Mid-Atlantic Region. This is the second consecutive year ISC has been so honored.
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Penn to Divest From Sudan in Response to Genocide
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania will bar investments of its endowment assets in seven oil companies currently operating in Sudan as well as in obligations of the Sudanese government as a response to the genocide being committed in Darfur, Penn President Amy Gutmann announced today.