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The gift of more than 1,300 books came from Shirley and Marilyn Luber, wife and daughter of the late 1940 Wharton graduate and renowned Philadelphia art collector Gilbert Luber.
Former Penn grad and Deputy Director of the Center of Public Health Initiatives Wendy Voet is now the Executive Director of Women’s Way, an organization that lobbies for women’s health in the greater Philadelphia area.
Two Penn graduates established Preston’s Paradise six years ago, which has grown into a program with nine self-sustaining gardens and fresh produce truck.
The family of former neuroscience researcher Jeffrey Ware claims that he was exposed to radiation without full knowledge of the study and gave permission while “cognitively impaired.”
Despite the American Studies Association’s endorsement of a boycott of Israeli academic institutions on Wednesday, Penn remains adamantly against the measure.
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology donated about $3,000 to typhoon relief this weekend, in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan’s devastation in the Philippines last month.
John Tresch, professor of the history and sociology of science, was recently awarded the 2013 Pfizer Award for Best Scholarly Book from the History of Science Society.
The discussion, held as part of the Penn Political Coalition’s Political Action Week 2013, focused on food access and availability not only in Philadelphia but also in urban areas around the country.
The study analyzed over 2,100 tweets over a one-week period and found that most people were talking about abusing the medication rather than using it therapeutically.
A study by two Graduate School of Education assistant professors shows that Philadelphia schools are spending less money per pupil yet performing as well as comparable districts.