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Macaroni and cheese, Faculty Club style
Dear Benny,One of my favorite dishes on the Faculty Club cafeteria menu is the macaroni and cheese. The creamy, tangy cheese sauce is absolutely to die for, and in my opinion, worth the membership fee all by itself. Is it possible to get the recipe? —Cheesehead Dear Wisconsinite, It took me some time, but patience pays off. Faculty Club Manager Natalka Swavely graciously shared with me Chef David Stoltzfus’ recipe, which I now share with you.
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Panel: Schools need money, teachers
The air is thick with talk of education reform. States are tapping new revenue sources to reduce reliance on local property taxes. They are also trying to ensure that every school is adequately funded while grappling with inadequate revenue overall. And school districts wonder how best to spend that money, and which of the many education reforms being pushed actually work.
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“Benefits for the Workplace of the Future”
The workforce of the future promises to be very different from that of the past. A generation ago, there were few workers over the age of 65, but in the future we will see many more employees remain on the job longer than ever before. At the same time, as global markets grow more closely integrated, companies are having to reinvent the workplace, which requires more skilled, more reliable, and more flexible employees.
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Richard Swett to Visit Penn's Graduate School of Fine Arts
WHO: Richard N. SwettWHAT: A lecture on "The Architecture of Trust" as part of the GSFA Public Lecture Series WHEN: March 24 at 6 p.m.WHERE: Room B-1, Meyerson Hall, 210 S. 34th St.
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Pheromones in Male Perspiration Reduce Women's Tension, Alter Hormone Response that Regulates Menstrual Cycle
PHILADELPHIA – Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia have found that exposure to male perspiration has marked psychological and physiological effects on women: It can brighten women's moods, reducing tension and increasing relaxation, and also has a direct effect on the release of luteinizing hormone, which affects the length and timing of the menstrual cycle.The results will be published in June in the journal Biology of Reproduction and currently appear on the journal's Web site.
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Penn Professor Receives Fulbright Grant to Australia
PHILADELPHIA -- Brian Sutton-Smith, professor emeritus in the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education, has received a Fulbright Senior Specialists grant to lecture and consult for two weeks at the Australian Centre of the University of Melbourne and also at the Museum Victoria. Sutton-Smith is a child-development expert and directed a child culture group during his tenure at Penn. His research interests include play history and the cross-cultural study of play, as well as psychology, education and folklore.
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Marjorie K. Jeffcoat, DMD, Named Dean of Penn's School of Dental Medicine
PHILADELPHIA – Marjorie K. Jeffcoat, DMD, award-winning dental researcher, professor and administrator at the University of Alabama School of Dentistry, has been named dean of the School of Dental Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Penn President Judith Rodin announced. She will assume her new position this summer.
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Architectural Conservation Laboratory: Preserving the Past for the Future
PHILADELPHIA -- What do the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings, medieval Cairo, the Second Bank of the United States and the Creole cemeteries of New Orleans all have in common? The answer is Frank Matero, an associate professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Fine Arts.
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Benjamin Nathans Wins Koret Jewish Book Award
PHILADELPHIA -- A University of Pennsylvania history professor has taken the top prize in the history category of the fifth annual Koret Jewish Book Awards. Benjamin Nathans was honored for "Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia." The awards highlight the best new English-language Jewish books and their authors.
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Jack Miles to Speak at Penn Humanties Forum
Jack Miles, the 2002 MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "God: A Biography," will speak March 19 at 5 p.m. in Room 200 of College Hall on "How Many Scriptures Became One Bible (and Why the Change Matters)." The event is free and open to the public.