Jeanne Leong

PHILADELPHIA -- The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has approved a $2.4 million grant to the University of Pennsylvania to launch the Center for Urban Redevelopment Excellence.

PHILADELPHIA – University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Stephen Burbank has been appointed special master to resolve designated disputes between the National Football League Management Council and the NFL Players Association. U.S. District Judge David S.

PHILADELPHIA Learning and speaking English is one thing, but learning and speaking English slang can be quite another. Ask any foreigner who has come to study at an American university.That was why Bill Kelly organized his informal, non-credit "Slanguage" classes through the Christian Association at the University of Pennsylvania.

PHILADELPHIA -- University of Pennsylvania students can now check out a laptop computer to do research, write papers and check e-mail.

PHILADELPHIA -- Representatives from the U.S., Canada and Mexico will meet Dec. 2-3 to develop a plan to combat the commercial sexual exploitation of children, including the problems of child prostitution, pornography and sexual trafficking.

PHILADELPHIA Richard Gelles has been named interim dean of the School of the Social Work at the University of Pennsylvania, effective Sept. 1. His appointment was announced today by Judith Rodin, Penn president, and Robert Barchi, the provost.

[NOTE TO EDITORS: Photographs of Officer Johnson directing traffic are available electronically or via U.S. mail.] PHILADELPHIA When Officer Floyd Johnson directs traffic, people pay attention. And they smile.

PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania Law School adds to its growing corporate-law program with the creation of the Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professorship of Business Law and the associated Fox Endowed Research Fund. This is the largest single gift establishing a chair in the history of Penn.