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Solving Penn's two-wheel parking problem
The recent SEPTA strike had many Penn staffers mulling over other ways to get to work. For those who dusted off the old Schwinn in the garage and took to the bicycle lanes, the experience may have proved an eye opener. After sharing the road with more-impatient-than-ever commuters, finding a safe place to stow their bikes on campus was hardly a walk in the park either.
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For The Record: Against the current
In May of 1935, 16 Penn coeds made the trek down to the Schuylkill River, piled into a shell and made University history: They were the first women ever to row for Penn. It was an exciting time for Penn women, as the University also had recently announced coeds—previously relegated to intramural sports only—would be permitted to compete against other area colleges in such sports as field hockey and basketball. But it was the women rowers who caught the attention of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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An Envelope Yields a Big Surprise at Penn: $14 Million
PHILADELPHIA University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann got the surprise of her Penn life when, at a dinner for students and scholarship donors, Penn Trustee George Weiss handed her an envelope on which he had written, "Have a nice day, Amy!" Inside was a check for $14 million, earmarked for one of Gutmann passions, undergraduate financial aid.Visibly moved, Gutmann summed up the significance of the moment.
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Renowned Architect David Chipperfield Selected to Create New Master Plan for Penn Museum
PHILADELPHIA -- The renowned British architect David Chipperfield has been selected to develop a comprehensive new master plan to take the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, its complex historical building and its international research, collections and educational outreach into the 21st century.Chipperfield was selected following an international search by a committee of representatives of Penn Museum's Board of Overseers and staff, Penn's School of Design and Division of Facilities and Real Estate Services.
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Penn's Norman Newberg Chronicles 18 years of the "Say Yes to Education" Program in New Book
PHILADELPHIA -- In "The Gift of Education: How a Tuition Guarantee Program Saved the Lives of Inner City Youth," Norman Newberg describes how the chance-of-a-lifetime gift of free college tuition and the pressure to use it changed the lives of 112 seventh-grade students from one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods.Newberg is a senior fellow in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Alan Charles Kors Wins National Humanities Medal
Alan Charles Kors, a University of Pennsylvania history professor, is one of 12 recipients of the 2005 National Humanities Medal. The National Humanities Medal, first awarded in 1989 by the National Endowment for the Humanities as the Charles Frankel Prize, honors individuals and organizations whose work deepens the nation's understanding of the humanities, broadens citizens' engagement with the humanities or helps preserve and expand America's access to important humanities resources.
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Penn Institute for Urban Research to Host Panel on What Gaming Could Mean for Philadelphia
WHAT: A panel discussion titled "The Casinos Are Coming: What Gaming Will Mean for Philadelphia" will be held as part of a continuing Public Interest Series, sponsored by the Penn Institute for Urban Research at the University of Pennsylvania.WHO: Panelists will be:
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Penn's Annenberg School for Communication Marks World AIDS Day with Public Lecture and Art Exhibition
WHO: Paula Treichler, research professor of communications, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignWHAT & WHEN: Body Maps Art Exhibition, Nov. 15, 2005-Jan. 15, 2006, Public Lecture, Dec. 6, 6:15 p.m.WHERE: Annenberg School for Communication, 3620 Walnut St. on the University of Pennsylvania campus
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Gioia at Writer's House
Top Stories Fox, others on non-profit challenges Gioia at Writer's House
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Study in contrasts
At first glance, painters Robert Slutzsky and Neil Welliver would seem to have little in common. Welliver painted large-scale depictions of the wooded Maine landscape while Slutzsky created bold abstract compositions of geometric forms. Welliver’s painterly brush strokes are visible on the canvas, while Slutzsky’s work emits a cool precision. But the two men share some history. They both served as chairs of the Department of Fine Arts and both studied at Yale under Bauhaus artist Josef Albers. They were born in the same year (1929) and both died early in 2005.