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PHILADELPHIA — “Post-Mao Dreaming: Chinese Contemporary Art” opens at the University of Pennsylvania’s Arthur Ross Gallery on Jan. 22. 

Philadelphia, PA –  Arlen Specter, the longest-serving U.S. Senator in Pennsylvania’s history, will join the University of Pennsylvania Law School as an adjunct faculty member, starting in the fall of 2011. Specter, who left the Senate this month after 30 years in office and is a University of Pennsylvania alumnus, will teach a course on the relationship between Congress and the U.S.

WHO:Michael Fitts, Dean, University of Pennsylvania Law School Amy Gutmann, President, University of Pennsylvania WHAT: Final steel beam to be placed on Golkin Hall WHEN: Nov. 4, 2010 @ 6:30 p.m.

PHILADELPHIA – University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price announced today that Michael Fitts has agreed to extend his term as dean of the Penn Law School until June 30, 2015. Fitts became dean in 2000 and had been scheduled to step down on June 30, 2012. 

WHO:            Kenneth Feinberg  WHAT:            “Unconventional Responses to Unique Catastrophies”  

PHILADELPHIA --  The University of Pennsylvania Law School and The Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong have established a Master of Laws degree student exchange program.

PHILADELPHIA –- An international study led by biologists and neuroscientists from the University of Pennsylvania has identified a new genetic risk factor for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease.

PHILADELPHIA – Four teachers in the University of Pennsylvania Law School have received 2010 teaching awards.

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WHO: The University of Pennsylvania’s Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice and Research, a collaboration between Penn’s School of Social Policy and Practice,