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Inside the minds of casino customers
A potential casino customer has a number of decisions to make. Which casino to visit? When to go? How much money to spend? And where to spend that money—at slot machines or tables?
40 Winks with the Sphinx
WHAT:"40 Winks with the Sphinx" is the Penn Museum’s new sleepover program for children ages 6-12, their parents, or an a
Expert Opinion: Rogers M. Smith on Sen. Specter’s Party Switch
…And on the 99th day, the political gods delivered Arlen Specter. President Obama received an unexpected gift on the eve of his 100th day in office when Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter announced that he was leaving the Republican Party to join the Democrats.
Support for the college-bound
Funding from telecommunications giant AT&T will allow Penn’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships to help more high school students stay in school and prepare for college.
Student Spotlight: Olivier Kamanda
Photo credit: Mark Stehle FOREIGN SERVICE: Kamanda, a third-year Penn Law student, is the founder and editor-in-chief of
Sun Ra at the ICA
WHEN?: On display from April 24 to Aug. 2 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, 118 S. 36th St.
Four Penn scholars awarded Fellowships
Four members of the Penn community were recently honored with the distinguished Guggenheim Fellowship, an annual award given by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to accomplished men and women who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or extraordinary creative ability in the arts.
Evolution at the molecular level
Joshua Plotkin, the Martin Meyerson Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Penn, has been a fan of math since his youth. He majored in math as an undergraduate student at Harvard, studied it as a visiting student at Oxford University and also planned to continue studying it in graduate school.
Conflict offers no easy solutions
For more than half a century, the Middle East conflict has been one of the world’s chief foreign policy concerns—a situation that has greatly affected Arabs and Israelis, Christians, Muslims and Jews.