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Penn Students Vie for Top Prizes in Annual Invention Competition: PennVention
PHILADELPHIA –- The Weiss Tech House, a student-run hub of technological innovation at the University of Pennsylvania, announced today the 11 student inventions that will compete in the fourth annual PennVention competition.
Penn’s Fox Leadership Program Partners With Girl Scouts for “Stand Up!” Leadership Workshop April 5
WHO:Junior Girl Scouts from West and North PhiladelphiaFox Leadership Program at the University of Pennsylvania Girl Scouts at Penn ClubGirl Scouts of Eastern PennsylvaniaWHAT:“Stand Up!” leadership, self-esteem and self-defense workshopWHERE:
Penn Researcher Explores a Lost Port City of the Mycenaeans in the Region of the Trojan War
PHILADELPHIA –- Along an isolated stretch of the eastern shoreline of Greece, a University of Pennsylvania classics professor and his colleagues are unlocking the secrets of a partially submerged “lost” harbor town believed to have been built by the Mycenaeans 3,500 years ago.
Two Students From Penn Win Truman Scholarships
PHILADELPHIA –- A pair of University of Pennsylvania juniors are among 65 students from 55 U.S. colleges and universities elected as 2008 Truman Scholars by 17 independent selection panels on the basis of leadership potential, intellectual ability and likelihood of “making a difference.”
Penn Engineering Receives $7.5 Million to Develop Cooperation Principles for Robot Teams
PHILADELPHIA –- The University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science has received a five-year, $7.5 million grant to draw inspiration from biological organisms, including humans, in order to create principles of cooperation to control teams of next-generation, unmanned, robotic vehicles.
University of Pennsylvania Chemist and Mathematician Awarded Sloan Research Fellowships
PHILADELPHIA -– Tobias Baumgart, assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, and Joachim Krieger, assistant professor of mathematics at Penn, have been named Alfred P.
Penn Museum's 26th Annual Maya Weekend to Focus on "The Future of the Maya World"
PHILADELPHIA -– The preservation of ancient Maya sites, efforts to sustain modern Maya cultural traditions and the need to conserve vanishing tropical forests and coastal environments are all are on the agenda April 11-13 when the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology colla
University of Pennsylvania Students Converge on New Orleans for Spring-Break Volunteer Activities
WHO: University of Pennsylvania studentsWHAT: Grassroots volunteer efforts to rebuild New Orleans WHERE: New OrleansWHEN: March 7-16
Viruses Evolve To Play By Host Rules, According to University of Pennsylvania Researchers
PHILADELPHIA -- Biologists at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University have examined the complete genomes of viruses that infect the bacteria E. coli, P. aeruginosa and L. lactis and have found that many of these viral genomes exhibit codon bias, the tendency to preferentially encode a protein with a particular spelling.
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Philadelphia’s Tyshawn Sorey wins Pulitzer Prize in music
Tyshawn Sorey of the School of Arts & Sciences has won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in music for “Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith),” a concerto for saxophone and orchestra.
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Jerome Rothenberg, who expanded the sphere of poetry, dies at 92
Charles Bernstein of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the late Jerome Rothenberg was the ultimate hyphenated person: a poet-critic-anthologist-translator.
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He started college in prison. Now, he is Rutgers-Camden’s first Truman scholar
Tej Patel, a third-year in the Wharton School and College of Arts and Sciences from Billeria, Massachusetts, was one of 60 college students nationwide chosen to be a Truman Scholar.
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A collector donated 75,000 comic books to Penn Libraries, valued at more than $500,000
Alumnus Gary Prebula and his wife, Dawn, have donated a $500,000 collection of more than 75,000 comic books and graphic novels to Penn Libraries, featuring remarks from Sean Quimly of the Kislak Center and Jean-Christophe Cloutier of the School of Arts & Sciences.
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Violence escalates in Sudan as civil war enters second year
Ali Ali-Dinar of the School of Arts & Sciences discusses the forces driving the civil war in Sudan and how the global community is responding.
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