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The Women’s Committee of the Penn Museum is bringing back its signature fundraiser, “TREASURES,” from Oct. 26-28. Tickets are $15 for the show or $25 for the show and admission to Museum exhibition “MAYA 2012: Lords of Time” (both tickets also include regular Museum admission).
Penn Profs Join E.J. Dionne Jr. on Religion and Politics Panel at National Museum of American Jewish History
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Penn Hosts First Ivy Plus STEM Symposium
This weekend, Penn hosted the first Ivy Plus Symposium and workshops for diverse scholars, a national conference designed to encourage exceptional undergraduate students to pursue advanced training in the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, fields.
Netter Center to Use AT&T Grant to Support Ninth Graders’ Achievement at Two West Philadelphia Schools
PHILADELPHIA -- Ninth grade students at University City and Sayre High schools in West Philadelphia will be the beneficiaries of a $300,000 competitive grant received by the University of Pennsylvania’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships from the
Penn Students Teach and Learn in Central America
Randall Tassone and Jean Lim have returned to campus after spending the summer enriching their lives as well as the lives of people in Nicaragua.
Facing Global Educational Issues: Penn GSE Researchers in Austria
Marybeth Gasman and Laura Perna, two researchers from the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education are in Austria this week for the Salzburg Global Seminar.
Penn Vet Added to United Way's List of Approved Charities
PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine has been added to the list of United Way charities to which individuals in the Philadelphia area may donate as part of a workplace campaign.
$2.5 Million Endowed Scholarship Supports New Partnership Between Penn and KIPP Schools
PHILADELPHIA -- It was for students such as Chevon Boone that dignitaries from the KIPP Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania gathered Oct. 2 to celebrate the establishment of a new partnership.
In the News
The New York Times
Europe has a leadership vacuum. How will it handle Trump?
Amy Gutmann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that Germany is front and center in the economic problems currently afflicting Europe.
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The Hill
Trust in court system at record low: Gallup
An October survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that the public’s trust in the U.S. Supreme Court has dropped to a record low.
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Los Angeles Times
Trump offers murky worldview ahead of second term, mixing dire warnings with rosy promises
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that Donald Trump is far more hyperbolic on average than traditional presidential candidates, who still routinely claim that they will do something alone that can’t be done without Congress.
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The New York Times
An epidemic of vicious school brawls, fueled by student cellphones
PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton says that many schools don’t have a playbook for addressing student violence or helping pupils engage more positively online, in part because few researchers are studying the issue.
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The New York Times
N.Y.C. grocery prices are high. Could city-owned stores help?
Andrew Lamas of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the logistics of running grocery stores are complicated and that New York City should examine different models like cooperatives.
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