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Ron Ozio directs local, national, and international media-relations activities in the central University Communications Office. He is also the news-media contact for matters related to the administration and admissions and is the contact for permission to film on campus.
PHILADELPHIA The University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education and The Goldman Sachs Foundation are preparing Penn students and K-12 educators to start new initiatives in education. The Goldman Sachs Entrepreneurship in Education program will nurture entrepreneurial-minded educators and support their development of new initiatives.
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PHILADELPHIA ducational researchers at the National Center on Adult Literacy at the University of Pennsylvania have been awarded a three-year, $2.4 million grant from the U. S. Department of Education to foster the use of technology, including distance learning, the Internet and CDs, in adult education and literacy programs nationwide.
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PHILADELPHIA - The latest in digital technology is coming to the aid of New Orleans' Creole cemeteries.
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PHILADELPHIA - The music of 20th-Century composers George Crumb and George Rochberg will be featured in a Nov. 10 concert at the University of Pennsylvania.The program will consist of Crumb's "Celestial Mechanics (Makrokosmos IV)" for amplified piano (four hands) and "A Little Suite for Christmas, A. D. 1979" for piano and Rochberg's "String Quartet No. 3."
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PHILADELPHIA -- Peter Stallybrass, a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, and Ann Rosalind Jones of Smith College have been named winners of the prestigious James Russell Lowell Prize award for their book "Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory."
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PHILADELPHIA - As an educator in the Center for Literacy in Philadelphia, Jane McGovern knows first hand how the use of computers can motivate an adult learner.In the past, adult learners gathered in a classroom for orientation and listened to information pertaining to the program. At the end of the session, they were introduced to computers. Few individuals returned.
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WASHINGTON -- Tens of thousands of U.S., Mexican and Canadian children and youths become victims of juvenile pornography, prostitution and trafficking each year. So significant is the problem that even most law-enforcement and child-welfare officials do not realize its scope.
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PHILADELPHIA -- It's easy to see the final line in Voltaire's "Candide" hanging on the wall above an executive's head in a neatly matted frame: "e must cultivate our garden." Or perhaps on an inspiring desk calendar in a clean crisp font? This phrase radiates an optimistic energy; a hard-work-pays-off spirit.Or does it?
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PHILADELPHIA -- Architect Marshall D. Meyers, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects who spent his professional life in Philadelphia, died August 12 in Pasadena, Calif. He was 70. Meyers was known for his exceptional contributions to the art and craft of architecture, and is internationally recognized for his innovative contributions to Philadelphia architect Louis I.
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PHILADELPHIA--Back to school this year has taken new meaning for 18 senior administrators from higher education across the nation. They are not only orchestrating the new academic year from their posts as vice presidents and deans but they are also beginning their doctorates in higher education management at the University of Pennsylvania.
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