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Ania Loomba has always felt there were crucial connections between Shakespearian times and 1970s India. For Loomba, a native of India, exploring issues of race and gender in the Renaissance period made studying the literature “more exciting” and personally resonant, but it wasn’t until Loomba went to England to pursue her Ph.D. and found herself in a country dealing with uncomfortable issues of race that she discovered how relevant her research was.
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Penn School of Design Partnering with City of Philadelphia and Philadelphia Daily News to Handle Legalized Gambling IssuesWHO:Penn School of Design students, Philadelphia Daily News,Mayor John Street, architect Stan EckstutWHAT:Planning session about legalized gambling in PennsylvaniaWHEN:Feb. 10-13, 2005WHERE:University of Pennsylvania campusThe University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Daily News are partners in a project to work on city planning and design issues involving legalized gambling in Pennsylvania.
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PHILADELPHIA -- Nano-sized particles embedded with bright, light-emitting molecules have enabled researchers to visualize a tumor more than one centimeter below the skin surface using only infrared light. A team of chemists, bioengineers and medical researchers based at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Minnesota has lodged fluorescent materials called porphyrins within the surface of a polymersome, a cell-like vesicle, to image a tumor within a living rodent.
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Dear Benny, I often walk past the Chemistry Building and canít help but notice what seems to be a collection of some old Roman-looking columns sitting in a little courtyard. Are those actually Roman ruins? If so, where did they come from?—Curious about columns
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Whether we eat chicken soup when we’re sick, mulligatawny with our curry, or miso soup with a side of sushi, it’s clear that soup is truly a universal dish. Hot soup is a mainstay of small cafes, diners and fine restaurants everywhere, and in the winter, it seems to warm the belly like nothing else. Around Penn, you’ll find a wide array of fine soups—from the simple to the unique—at restaurants and food carts alike. Here’s a sampling.
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If you find your patience tested by too many workday interruptions, try spending a morning with Jane Nelson.
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Penn Library's Marian Anderson Collection Photo is the Inspiration for Postage Stamp DesignJan. 27, 2005PHILADELPHIA The image of singer and Philadelphia native Marian Anderson featured on the U.S. Postal Service's latest black heritage commemorative stamp is based on a photo in a special Penn Library collection. The stamp, depicting Anderson wearing a burgundy colored dress, is based on a black-and-white 1934 Mois Benko photograph housed at the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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JoAnn McCarthy is the new face of Penn’s international relations, as of March 1. McCarthy has been appointed Assistant Provost for International Affairs, and will work to develop and implement Penn’s global strategy, oversee initiatives to increase visibility in the international arena and encourage and promote international activities through the University, among other duties.
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—H. Lee Sweeney, chairman of physiology at the Penn School of Medicine, on the athletes who e-mail him inquiring whether gene therapy could make them better. Gene therapy, some say, could becoming a new doping fad, but Sweeney and others warn the practice has its dangers. (The Toronto Star, Jan. 16, 2005)