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Emotions help us prioritize friends
Two Penn psychologists say that people value friendships based not necessarily on what they believe their friends can do for them, but rather how much they believe their friends care about them. ... More
Pavilion project underway
The George A. Weiss Pavilion project is revamping the north side of Franklin Field, adding retail space, an intercollegiate strength and weight training center and a fitness center for general University use. ... More
Press Releases
Penn Becomes First Ivy to Partner With Posse Foundation
The University of Pennsylvania has become the first Ivy League school to partner with The Posse Foundation, which recruits and trains young people from urban high schools and sends them to top-tier colleges and universities as multicultural grou... More
"Righteous Dopefiend": Penn Anthropologist Philippe Bourgois Presents 10-Year Study of Living With Addicts
Bourgois and photographer Jeff Schonberg followed 24 heroin injectors and crack smokers in their scramble for survival on the streets of San Francisco.... More
Arts Events
Tavares Strachan: Orthostatic Tolerance
The surf surrounding Tavares Strachan's (b. 1979, Nassau, Bahamas, lives New York) hometown of Nassau, is the site of an experimental rocket launch. Made of glass from island sand, and powered by sugarcane, the rockets mark a primary phase of th... More
Business
Labor Pains in India
The economic slowdown in India appears to have triggered a growing number of conflicts between management and organized labor. ... More
One War We Shouldn't Avoid: A New Approach to Reducing the Cost of Future Catastrophes
In 2005, three major hurricanes -- Katrina, Rita and Wilma -- struck the U.S. Gulf Coast area, causing not just death and destruction, but also leading to insurance payments and federal disaster relief of more than $180 billion. Today, say the a... More
Arts & Sciences
2009 Goldstone Forum
Paul Krugman, renowned economist and columnist for the New York Times, delivers a lecture on "The Economic Challenges Ahead" at the 2009 Goldstone Forum, presented by the Philosophy, Politics and Economics program. ... More
Virtual Mummy
In this audio slideshow, anthropology major Samantha Cox discusses her work on reexamining Penn Museum specimens using CT scan technology. ... More
Medicine
Alzheimer's Film Rooted at Penn Wins Regional Emmy Award
A film with roots at Penn Medicine, Alzheimer?s Disease: Facing the Facts, won a 2009 Emmy for Documentary Program at the 32nd Boston/New England Emmy Award Ceremony of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The one-hour documentary... More
Protein Structures from the Human Immune System?s Oldest Branch Shed Light on a Range of Diseases
Researchers have determined the structure of C3 convertase and of the C3b fragment in complex with factor H. These new structures, both involving a central component of an enzyme important to the complement system of the immune response, reveal ... More
Penn Compact in Action
Research
Why Stock-price Volatility Should Never Be a Surprise, Even in the Long Run
Stock market investors have suffered deep losses in the past 18 months, challenging the belief that stocks are the best long-term investments.... More
First Results from Penn's Balloon-Borne Telescope BLAST: Extragalactic Survey Reveals Half the Universe's Starlight
The telescope, designed by a Penn-led collaboration, collected data 120,000 feet above Antarctica to observe the distant universe at wavelengths nearly unattainable from the ground. The study has uncovered dust-ensh... More
From the Academic Calendar
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Athletics
Sanela Kunovac Named Head Women's Tennis Coach
Fans of Penn tennis might remember Kunovac as the first Quaker to sweep Ivy League Player and Rookie of the Year honors -- She did it in 2001. Kunovac was a part of two Ivy League championship squads as a player.... More
Libraries
Lippincott Library Director Receives Award
Michael Halperin, Director of the Lippincott Library, received the 2009 Gale Cengage Learning Award for Excellence in Business Librarianship for his outstanding contribution to the field of business librarianship.... More
Lyrasis Mass Digitization Collaboration
The Lyrasis Mass Digitization Project allows members to contribute important historical and archival materials for digitization as part of a regional digital collection. Penn's first contributions are now available.... More
Making History: The Campaign For Penn
Penn's Rachleff Scholars: A New Kind of Engineering Student
At Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science, innovation happens every day -- and not just in classrooms and labs as students and faculty push the boundaries of technology. It happens almost as often in the ... More
It Takes a Team: Adams Field Named in Honor of Former Penn Lacrosse Coach
Back in the 70s, Penn Lacrosse was put on the national map by a legendary coach: James "Ace" Adams.read more... More
For Faculty & Staff
Visit Page 2 of the Penn Digest for news and events from the President, Provost, Human Resources, Computing, Recreation, and more.... More
