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Penn Science Cafe: Tales of the Dinosaur Hunter
WHAT: The Penn Science Cafe, the 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: Peter Dodson, professor of anatomy, Penn's School of Veterinary Medicine, and professor of geology, Penn's School of Arts and SciencesWHERE: The MarBar 40th and Walnut streets, PhiladelphiaWHEN:6 p.m., Monday, May 23
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Breastfeeding Advocates Help Communities Latch onto A Good Idea
PHILADELPHIA -- In a city where barely 20 % of impoverished women breastfeed, changing attitudes toward breastfeeding has become a matter of course for students from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Since 1995, Nursing 361 has required students to take part in a community advocacy program of their own design. This month in the Journal of Human Lactation, the course's instructor offers guidelines for others to conduct such projects, as well as a model to demonstrate how advocacy can change communities.
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Penn Robotics Lab Receives $5 Million Grant to Develop Robot Swarms from MARS
PHILADELPHIA -- Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have received a $5 million grant from the Department of Defense to develop large-scale "swarms" of robots that could work together to thoroughly search large areas from the ground and sky. The Scalable Swarms of Autonomous Robots and Sensors or the Swarms Project, as it is known takes organizational cues from the natural world where tens or even hundreds of small, independent robots work together to accomplish specific tasks, such as finding a bomb in a crowded city.
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Will T.O. stay or will he go?
After more than 20 years of working in and studying the tough world of sports business—including time spent as a sports agent and writing a book about the agent business—Wharton legal studies professor Kenneth Shropshire has learned a thing or two about the nastiness of contract negotiations. But when asked to predict the outcome of the increasingly bitter contract dispute between the Philadelphia Eagles and star receiver Terrell Owens, even Shropshire says he can’t guess what will happen. He just knows it should be interesting to watch.
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Ask Benny: What are summer hours for facilities?
Dear Benny, I’m a workout fanatic, and I usually prefer to hit the gym after work. But with summer approaching, does Pottruck have shorter hours? Am I going to have to start working out in the morning? Also, are other Penn facilities adjusting their hours for the summer?—Gym Rat
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Staff Q&A: David Fox
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The science of teaching
Q&A/The winner of this year’s Ira H. Abrams Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching talks about why clarity is so important, how he learned to accept his own blunders—and why he still gets nervous. When Paul Sniegowski got the call telling him he’d won the School of Arts and Science’s top teaching award for 2005, his mind began reeling. Sniegowski had forgotten all about the award.
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2005 Commencement Events
Saturday, May 14 SCHOOL CEREMONIES EDUCATION: Doctoral Hooding Ceremony, 3 p.m., Penn Museum, 3260 South St. FELS INSTITUTE OF GOVERNMENT: Ceremony and reception at 5 p.m., Fels Institute of Government, 3814 Walnut St. Sunday, May 15 UNIVERSITY-WIDE EVENTS BACCALAUREATE CEREMONY:Speaker: Eboo Patel, founder and executive director of Interfaith Youth Core. 1 and 3 p.m. in Irvine Auditorium, 34th and Spruce sts.
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Look, just don't eat
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