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New Financial Aid Director Explains Penn’s No-loan Aid Program for Undergraduates
Joel Carstens, university director of financial aid at the University of Pennsylvania, may be new to campus, but he’s no stranger to the Ivy League and the financial-aid challenges of its schools and students.
Penn’s Public Safety Ranked First in Security Magazine’s Top-500 List for the Sixth Consecutive Year
PHILADELPHIA –- The University of Pennsylvania Division of Public Safety has been ranked No. 1 in the higher-education sector for the sixth year in a row, according to Security Magazine’s Security 500 list.
Penn Social Policy & Practice Researcher Studies Homelessness and Academic Achievement
PHILADELPHIA -- One million American school children are homeless each year, and many more are thought to move frequently. A researcher from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy & Practice is the lead author on a new longitudinal study linking homelessness and frequent moving with children’s achievement.
A Comparative Medicine Study by Penn Vet Identifies a New Approach to Combat Viral Infections
PHILADELPHIA — When a virus such as influenza invades our bodies, interferon proteins are among the first immune molecules produced to fight off the attack. Interferon can also play a role in suppressing tumor growth and the effects of autoimmune diseases, and doctors may use an artificial form of interferon to treat patients with certain cancers or multiple sclerosis.
Help photograph "A Day in the Life of Penn’
If you like taking photos and think you have a good eye for striking images, sign up to participate in this fall’s “A Day in the Life of Penn” photography project.
ARG presents rare look at Penn’s photo collection
Penn owns an extensive photography collection that includes the most influential names among 20th century photographers, including Ralph Gibson, Larry Clark, Garry Winogrand, W. Eugene Smith, Harold Edgerton, Elliott Erwitt, Manuel Bravo, Helmut Newton, and Edward Steichen. But the images rarely go on display.
Chrome-plated, fuel-injected, Springsteen at Kelly Writers House
Show a little faith, there will be magic in the night when Kelly Writers House highlights “The Boss” in its singer-songwriter symposium. On Thursday, Nov. 15, at 6 p.m., the New Jersey rocker’s music will headline at the Writers House Bruce “Springsteen Fest.”
Penn Conference Celebrates Partnerships That Strengthen Neighborhoods
WHAT: A two-day international conference titled "The Role of Higher Education-Community-School Partnerships in Creating Democratic Communities Locally, Nationally and Globally” will celebrate the University of Pennsylvania’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships’ 20 years of work with its West Philadelphia neighbors.
Penn experts to discuss biology of autism at public lecture
Autism spectrum disorder, which appears to be more common than previously believed, remains frustratingly mysterious to doctors, researchers, and parents of children who are affected by the developmental condition.
Penn offers credit-counseling workshop
Some people bristle at talking about personal money matters, but if you are planning to purchase a home in the near future, your credit score will play a major role in the financing.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
What’s it like to come home from prison? Reentry simulations let people experience it firsthand
With support from the STAR program, Aslam Ashari was able to enroll in an entrepreneurship course at Penn after his release from prison.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
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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Philadelphia Inquirer
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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Philadelphia Inquirer
How did a white woman come to write the newest definitive text on Philadelphia’s Black history?
Penn alum Amy Jane Cohen is profiled for her new book “Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape,” which examines Black history through the lens of events, institutions, and individuals across the city. The book includes a reflection from Penn chaplain Charles Howard.
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WHYY (Philadelphia)
Homeward bound: When a Penn Medicine nurse was diagnosed with uterine cancer, she turned to the service dogs she helped to train
A profile highlights Maria Wright of Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, from her volunteer work connecting people with service dogs to her cancer diagnosis and her own journey applying for a service dog.
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