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Play Ball!
Each summer, faculty and staff members from the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania bring their sense of cooperation and collaboration onto the softball field. No matter their skill level, the players enjoy some active time together and the opportunity to strengthen their partnerships during a few sunny afternoons at Penn Park. These SP2 summer softball games have been happening since 2013.
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A 2021 Rhodes Scholar for Penn
May graduate Mackenzie Fierceton from St. Louis been awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford in England. She earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and is currently completing her master’s degree in clinical social work.
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We the people of Penn celebrate National Constitution Day
On Wednesday, Sept. 17, Penn’s Office of Government and Community Affairs (OGCA) is offering a variety of ways for we the people of Penn to celebrate National Constitution Day, more than two centuries after the Founding Fathers first signed the document on Sept. 17, 1787.
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How much gossip is needed to foster social cooperation?
Researchers Mari Kawakatsu, Taylor A. Kessinger, and Joshua B. Plotkin in Penn’s Department of Biology developed a model incorporating two forms of gossip to study indirect reciprocity.
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What every first-year needs to know: Student tour guides offer tips, advice
A half-dozen student tour guides share a few things they wish they’d known as they started at Penn.
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"These companies have an obligation to tell the public the truth, that these medications are risky."
—Penn cardiologist Garret FitzGerald, on his finding that drugs similar to Vioxx—recalled because of safety concerns—may pose similar risks. (New York Daily News, Oct. 11)
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Fighting the opioid epidemic
Read more at Penn Medicine News.
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Leading change with Women of Color at Penn
African-American Resource Center's Colleen Winn on MLK, racial justice and her role as a mentor in the Penn community.
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How undisclosed SEC investigations lead to insider trading
Should companies go public sooner about the fact that the SEC is investigating them? Daniel Taylor, a professor of accounting at Wharton, investigated this question in a research paper titled, “Undisclosed SEC Investigations,” which considers whether insiders gain an unfair advantage in being able to sell shares before the information hits the market.