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If you see more, you’re likely to eat more
The health-conscious know that they’re likely to wreak havoc on their hips if they eat too much at Thanksgiving dinner or dip too heartily into gigantic supermarket dispensers of candy. But what if they sampled just a little bit of each potato dish or just a couple pieces of each gummy color?
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Penn’s Center for Technology Transfer Presents Penn Innovations to the Private Equity Community
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania Center for Technology Transfer will host its Annual Open House on Oct. 7 at its office on the Penn campus. CTT plays a key role in moving the results driven by Penn's enormous research capacity to the marketplace. The open house will offer venture capitalists, regional managers and entrepreneurs, law firms, inventors and the technology community access not only to Penn innovations but to the university scientists and commercialization experts as well.
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Penn Law School Hosts Symposium About Music File Sharing
Penn Law School Hosts Symposium About Music File SharingWHO:Gideon Parchomovsky, University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolPolk Wagner, University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolJoel Waldfogel, Wharton School, University of PennsylvaniaFelix Olberholtzer, Harvard Business School Alejandro Zentner, University of ChicagoWHAT:Symposium: "Does File Sharing Hurt Record Sales? An Economic Inquiry"WHEN:Friday, Oct. 8, 20042-5 p.m.WHERE:University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolSilverman Hall, Room 240A
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Penn Alexander School Wins National Design Award
PHILADELPHIA -- The Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander University of Pennsylvania Partnership School has been recognized by KnowledgeWorks Foundation as one of just 14 schools in the nation that best exemplifies a growing national trend to build schools as centers of community.
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Former Merck CEO to Speak at Penn's Kelly Writers House About New Book "Medicine, Science, and Merck"
WHO:Roy Vagelos, retired CEO of Merck and former chairman of Penn Board of Trustees.WHAT:Vagelos will be talking about his new book "Medicine, Science, and Merck."WHEN:6 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 7WHERE:Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust WalkIn his memoir, Vagelos has two stories to tell: one about the growth and development of medical science in business and the other about the dream of the ethnic American realized, and these stories are social, national and intellectual rather than merely personal in nature.
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Penn Chemist Alan G. MacDiarmid Honored with China's Friendship Award
PHILADELPHIA -- University of Pennsylvania Professor and Nobel Laureate Alan G. MacDiarmid received the Friendship Award today from Chinese Vice-Premier Hui Liangyu at a ceremony in Beijing. This year, the annual Friendship Award was conferred on 84 foreign experts for their outstanding contributions to China's economic and social development. MacDiarmid was honored for his work as chairman of the Alan G. MacDiarmid Institute at Jilin University in ChangChun, China, and professor in Jilin University Chemistry Department.
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University of Pennsylvania and Sayre High School Hold Community Celebration Day and Health Fair
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania and Sayre High School are holding the "Penn-West Philadelphia Community Celebration Day and Health Fair" at the Sayre campus, 58th and Walnut streets, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 9.The event will feature free medical and dental screenings by Penn medical and dental school students and faculty, a clean-up of the school and surrounding area, food and drinks and comments by Penn President Amy Gutmann and Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell.
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Hidden Diversity: DNA "Barcoding" Reveals a Common Butterfly Is Actually 10 Different Species
PHILADELPHIA -- A common butterfly, found in a variety of habitats from the southern United States to northern Argentina, is actually comprised of at least 10 separate species, according to researchers from the University of Pennsylvania.
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New site shines light on Penn arts
In the last few years Penn’s web presence has changed dramatically. First there was the complete overhaul of the University’s main web site, designed to make virtual visits to the campus more user friendly. On the heels of that initiative came a new site called Research at Penn, which drew attention to the University’s leadership role in research. Now comes a site that shines a spotlight on Penn’s rich and varied arts and culture offerings.
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Return of the minute-long treatise
Daniel Janzen says most of the world is plant illiterate. That is, people can’t read nature. And, as a result, most of us don’t know enough about the natural world to make any sense of it. “ If you couldn’t read, that library over there would just be a stone cave full of firewood,” Janzen, a biology professor and biodiversity expert in the Department of Biology, told his audience at the first of this fall’s 60-Second Lectures. “Well, 5.5 billion people in the world can’t read this,” Janzen added, picking up a plant. In the not-so-distant future, he said, that will change.