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J Street U Penn, a branch of the national group that promotes a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict hosted the panel as part of political action week.
The University City District is working to encourage area businesses to make use of Philadelphia’s Storefront Improvement Project, which subsidizes the renovation of storefront facades.
The ease of conducting clinical trials and development opportunities for early stage companies in Philadelphia have made the city one of the top 10 cities in the country for biotechnology jobs.
In May, a group of high school students, along with the help of Engineering without Borders, installed a water tank that would help them transport barrels of rainwater to the field of crops on their school farm.
DPS stressed that people who want to use the bridge at night should remain aware of their surroundings, and use Penn services that can get them safely to their destinations.
Penn has signed a 20-year lease for four floors of office space in the building but the tower’s primary tenant will be FMC Corporation, a specialty chemical company.
Student nurses in their junior year are encouraged to look for externship programs that allow them to work in hospital units and get hands on experience.
Penn students have a long history working with Puentes de Salud, a health clinic which provides healthcare access for South Philadelphia’s growing Latino population.
Penn has many ties with the Chinese university. In March 2010, Penn entered a memorandum of understanding with Peking University, and many of Penn’s schools work closely with the Chinese university.
The treatment is a gene therapy targeted at dogs with Best’s disease, a hereditary form of macular degeneration that occurs in humans as well as dogs that results in blindness.
Donald Hutchins, a retiree of the U.S. Mint and the Department of Recreation, has spent the past seven decades going to jazz shows in Philadelphia and has seen nearly every major jazz musician from the 20th century.