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A recent study from the Perelman School of Medicine shows that certain nutrients may play an essential role in sleep duration and that variety in diet is associated with healthier sleeping patterns.


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A recent study from the Perelman School of Medicine shows that certain nutrients may play an essential role in sleep duration and that variety in diet is associated with healthier sleeping patterns.




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Starting Friday afternoon, Natives at Penn — a student organization representing American Indian, Native Hawaiian and Alaska Native students on campus — hosted the All-Ivy Native Conference, one of the two times of the year when the communities at all Ivy League universities get together.


	Tukufu Zuberi, Department of Sociology chair, directed the film “African Independence,” which won the Best Documentary Film Award at the 2013 San Diego Black Film Festival.

Professor Tukufu Zuberi received the Best Documentary Film Award and the Best Director Award at the 2013 San Diego Black Film Festival for his film, “African Independence,” a feature-length documentary on the African continent’s evolution since colonization.






Wharton Leadership Lecture by Nancy G. Brinker, founder and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure

When Susan Komen was diagnosed with breast cancer in the late 1970s, people walking through the town of Peoria, Illinois, would cross the street when they saw her, out of fear that they would catch what they called “the big C.”After Komen’s younger sister, Nancy Brinker, made a promise to put an end to breast cancer forever, Brinker founded Susan G. Komen for the Cure — an organization that has invested almost $2 billion around the globe in ground-breaking research, education, screening and treatment.


"Class In Session" Lecture with 9th Wonder

Last night, members of the Philadelphia and Penn community learned about hip-hop from one of the masters of the trade.The Center for Africana Studies Undergraduate Advisory Board brought Grammy Award-winning producer, artist and scholar Patrick Douthit — better known as 9th Wonder — to speak at the Annenberg School about the history of contemporary hip-hop music and its influence on his life.


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Last night, J Street U Penn — a pro-Israel and pro-peace student group at Penn — hosted Daniel Seidemann, an Israeli attorney and legal expert on east Jerusalem policy. For his talk, Seidemann delved into his professional experience and lent some rational insight on the possibility of a two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians.






Faith and Proof Talk

For many, trying to find a balance between faith and proof can become a difficult tightrope act.In conjunction with the University’s “Year of Proof,” Penn Secular Society brought Carnegie Mellon University philosophy professor Andy Norman to speak Wednesday afternoon in a lecture titled “Faith, Proof and Everything in Between.”



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