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Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice Uses Katrina Lessons to Organize Long-Term Haitian Relief

    • Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice Uses Katrina Lessons to Organize Long-Term Haitian Relief

    PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice, using the lessons it learned from the Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts along the Gulf Coast, is coordinating a long-term, interdisciplinary Penn response to the disaster in Haiti.

    Jill DiSanto-Haines

    Penn Sets 30% Recycling Goal for National RecycleMania Competition in Support of Climate Action Plan

    • Penn Sets 30% Recycling Goal for National RecycleMania Competition in Support of Climate Action Plan

     PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania wants the campus community to recycle 30 percent of its waste as it joins more than 400 colleges and universities nationwide participating in RecycleMania this year. RecycleMania is a 10-week competition for students, faculty and staff, designed to encourage both recycling and waste minimization.

    Julie McWilliams

    Penn Libraries Receive Chaim Potok Papers

    • Penn Libraries Receive Chaim Potok Papers

     PHILADELPHIA –- The University of Pennsylvania is now home to papers documenting the life and literary career of novelist, rabbi and professor Chaim Potok.

    Jeanne Leong , Joe Zucca