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Campus & Community
Two University of Pennsylvania Professors Awarded 2011 Guggenheim Fellowships
PHILADELPHIA – Marwan M. Kraidy and Kevin M.F.
Staff Q&A with Glenn Bryan
“Penn’s strength is connected to the greatness of the community it shares,” says Glenn Bryan, the assistant vice president of community relations in the Office of Government and Community Affairs.
'The Red and Blue'
It is one of the first school songs students at Penn commit to memory, and one they probably will remember for the rest of their lives.
Penn helps stage Philadelphia Science Festival
This month scientists and science fans alike will take the latest research in fields from astronomy to zoology out of the labs and into the streets to celebrate the first annual Philadelphia Science Festival.
Q&A with Harris Steinberg
A decade ago, Philadelphia was a different city than it is today. Mayor John Street’s administration was just beginning the Neighborhood Transformation Initiative. Grand plans were still in the works for Penn’s Landing. Philadelphia was focused on development, rather than city planning.
Locust Moon Comics and Movies
WHAT: About a century ago, a group of writers, editors and literary critics decided to start meeting for lunch at what was to become the famous Algonquin Round Table in New York. Now-famous literary names such as Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley and Alexander Woollcott shared their mutual creativity at the meetings and turned their ideas into great works.
James Martin to Deliver Penn’s 2011 Baccalaureate Address
PHILADELPHIA — The Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit priest, author and culture editor of America, a national Catholic magazine, will speak at the University of Pennsylvania’s 2011 Baccalaureate ceremonies on Sunday, May 15, in Irvine Auditorium, 3401 Spruce St.
Janine Remillard of Penn GSE Named Vice Chair of National Commission for Mathematics Instruction
PHILADELPHIA – Janine Remillard, a professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named vice chair of the U.S. National Commission for Mathematics Instruction for a two-year term. She has served on the commission since 2009.
Penn’s interfaith communities work together in an array of service project
In a White House announcement earlier this month, President Obama urged college presidents to undertake what he calls “The President’s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge” during the 2011-12 academic year.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to speak at Global Colloquium of University Presidents at Penn
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will open the fifth annual meeting of the Global Colloquium of University Presidents at Penn on Monday, April 4, with a public address on empowering women.
In the News
Scholars at risk in their own countries find a new home at Penn
Penn Global’s Scholars-at-Risk program is featured. Global’s Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Scott Moore, Penn Carey Law’s Eric Feldman, and Wharton’s Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, along with former and current scholars Angel Alvarado, Pavel Golubev, and Jawad Moradi are interviewed.
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Penn will remain SAT optional for the next admission cycle
Penn will remain standardized test optional for the 2024-25 admissions cycle, with remarks from Dean of Admissions Whitney Soule.
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A burial for 19 Black Philadelphians, 200 years in the making
Penn Museum Director Christopher Woods says that the interment of 19 Black Philadelphians at Eden Cemetery represents a reckoning with the Museum’s colonial past and an act of reconciliation with the local community.
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Here’s what these youth advocates have to say about Philly’s truancy problem, and how they would fix it
The Netter Center for Community Partnerships has more than 30 years of investment in connecting resources that address truancy, such as establishing after-school programming.
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Chinatown residents brainstorm different ideas for Fashion District instead of proposed 76ers arena
Rashida Ng of the Weitzman School of Design and colleagues attended the Save Chinatown Coalition to propose different ideas besides the 76ers arena for Philadelphia’s Fashion District.
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