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Annenberg’s Joseph Turow Testifies to U.S. Senate Commerce Committee
WASHINGTON D.C. – Prof.
Making History Campaign Co-Chair Makes $5 Million Gift to Endow University PIK Professorship
PHILADELPHIA -- University of Pennsylvania Trustee Robert M. Levy and Diane v.S. Levy have made a $5 million gift designated for faculty support. The gift will be used to endow a Penn Integrates Knowledge Professorship, which will be named the Diane v.S. and Robert M. Levy University Professorship.The announcement was made by Penn President Amy Gutmann.
Penn GSE Launches U.S.-China Future Leaders Program
PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education-International is partnering with Beijing University and East China Normal University to create the U.S.-China Future Leaders Program to develop close relationships among young leaders and improve mutual understanding and respect.
Penn Is Among Top Medium-Sized Universities Contributing Graduates to Teach For America
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania ranks fourth in medium-sized colleges and universities in the number of 2010 graduates who are joining Teach For America. The 43 recent Penn graduates are committing the next two years to teach in underserved urban and rural public schools and will begin teaching in schools across the country in the fall.
Professors Robert Hornik, Joseph Turow Named ICA Fellows
Robert Hornik, Ph.D., the Wilbur Schramm Professor of Communication and Director of the Center of Excellence in Cancer Communication Research; and Joseph Turow, Ph.D., the Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of C
Seven in School of Veterinary Medicine Honored With Teaching Awards
Seven faculty members in the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine are recipients of 2010 teaching awards.
Federal Grant Will Enable Netter Center’s Nutrition Program to Expand Service to More High School Students
PHILADELPHIA -- The Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative, a program of the Netter Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania, can now expand its missi
East Coast Exclusive from China: "Secrets of the Silk Road"
With graceful eyelashes, long flaxen hair and serene expression, the "Beauty of Xiaohe" seems to have just softly fallen to sleep-yet she last closed her eyes nearly 4,000 years ago. She was found, and excavated, in 2003, one of hundreds of spectacularly preserved mummies buried in the harsh desert sands of the vast Tarim Basin, in the Far Western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonom
Penn Law School Announces Four Recipients of 2010 Teaching Awards
PHILADELPHIA – Four teachers in the University of Pennsylvania Law School have received 2010 teaching awards.
In the News
Twin Cities Pioneer Press
Nonfatal shootings usually have a low solve rate. St. Paul police focus on reversing that trend
Ben Struhl of the School of Arts & Sciences says it’s difficult to study whether there is a direct correlation between improving homicide clearance rates and decreased gun violence, though such a link would make sense.
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MotherJones.com
The curious origin of the ‘climate haven’ myth
Billy Fleming of the Weitzman School of Design explains why the idea of a “climate refuge” is an escapist fantasy fueled by the real estate industry.
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Associated Press
Should California’s minimum wage be $18? Voters will soon decide
Ioana Marinescu of the School of Social Policy & Practice says that increasing the minimum wage has not been shown to have any net effect on the overall employment rate.
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Philadelphia Tribune
Engaging discussion at Center in the Park on conservative agenda Project 2025
At a Philadelphia panel on Project 2025, PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts said that Black women would have even greater numbers of unwanted pregnancies without access to legal contraceptives.
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Bloomberg
UK Tories lurch to right with Badenoch-Jenrick leadership race
Penn alumnus Robert Jenrick is in the runoff to lead the UK’s Conservative Party.
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