<?xml version='1.0'  encoding='utf-8' ?><rss version='2.0'><channel><title>Penn - Office of University Communications</title><link>http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/</link><description>Recent press releases from the University of Pennsylvania news and public affairs office.</description><language>en-us</language><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 11:32:27 -0400</pubDate><webMaster>minicola@pobox.upenn.edu</webMaster><item><title>Jeffrey Cooper Named Vice President for Government and Community Affairs at University of Pennsylvania</title><link>http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/article.php?id=1387</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/article.php?id=1387</guid><description>Jeffrey Cooper, chief counsel for the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education and executive deputy general counsel in Gov. Edward Rendell's administration, will become the University of Pennsylvania's vice president for government and community affairs, Penn President Amy Gutmann has announced. He will assume his new position July 1.</description></item><item><title>University of Pennsylvania's New Wind Energy Commitment Puts It Back on Top Among Peers</title><link>http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/article.php?id=1383</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/article.php?id=1383</guid><description>With this new commitment, Penn's purchase of wind energy will be nearly 200,000 megawatt hours annually.</description></item><item><title>University of Pennsylvania History Professor Alan Charles Kors Awarded 2008 Bradley Prize </title><link>http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/article.php?id=1382</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/article.php?id=1382</guid><description>
Alan Charles Kors, professor of history in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, has been honored with the 2008 Bradley Prize by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation for his original scholarship in European intellectual history and his defense of free speech. </description></item><item><title>Penn Center for Computer Graphics Joins SIG to Build Region's Largest Motion-Capture Studio</title><link>http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/article.php?id=1390</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/article.php?id=1390</guid><description>The SIG Center for Computer Graphics and the SIG Gallery at Penn will open in the spring of 2009 and provide a state-of-the-art Vicon Motion Capture system and laboratory for projects such as 3D motion picture special effects, computer graphics design and animation, simulation and modeling of large-scale human crowds and research into the interrelationships of human movement, language and communication.</description></item><item><title>Penn Law School Group Makes Recommendations on Northern Uganda Peace Process</title><link>http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/article.php?id=1385</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/article.php?id=1385</guid><description>A University of Pennsylvania Law School group is recommending ways to implement the Agreement on Justice and Accountability between the Ugandan government and the Lord's Resistance Army rebel group.</description></item></channel></rss>