The Nursing Education Building will be officially renamed for Dean Emerita Claire Fagin at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Nov. 30.
Gov. Ed Rendell, a Penn graduate, has named Criminology professor Lawrence Sherman to the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency. Sherman is the director of the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology and serves as president of the International Society of Criminology in Paris.
Eleven members of the Granny Peace Brigade/Philadelphia are set to go on trial on Dec. 1.
Wharton MBA students Himanshu Agarwal and Pranjal Shah are members of a team selected as a finalist for JPMorgan's Good Venture competition. The Good Venture competition asks participating undergraduate and graduate teams of up to four members to choose an existing philanthropic non-profit organization to champion.
Penn researchers have established that while men are subjected to more traumatic events, women are more likely to be diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. David Tolin of the Institute of Living and Psychiatry professor Edna Foa reviewed 290 studies conducted between 1980 and 2005 to determine whether men or women were more likely to experience potentially traumatic events and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Affiliates of the University gave more money than all but four other groups within the education industry during the 2006 election cycle at $196,395, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Ninety-four percent of donations were to Democrats. The University of California, Harvard University and the Apollo Group were the only organizations whose members and employees gave more than Penn.
Penn ranked second last year among universities for hosting international scholars, according to an Institute for International Education report released Nov. 13.
The Division of Public Safety has issued a crime alert in response to a robbery several weeks ago. Officials say a robbery occurred at about 11:20 p.m. Oct. 31 outside of Brownie's Bar on South 38th Street. The victim was then forced to withdraw $400 from his ATM account, officials say.
Kentucky Derby-winner Barbaro is resting comfortably in the intensive-care unit of Penn's New Bolton Center after having the cast removed from his right leg on Nov. 6. Barbaro - a thoroughbred racehorse who fractured his leg severely during the Preakness in May - has defied the odds over the courses of his arduous recovery.
Students will now be informed by Penn InTouch if the course in which they are attempting to enroll requires a permit. This is a minor change that will address a long-standing complaint, according to University Registrar Ron Sanders. Previously, no notification was given and students' requests were occasionally deleted at the end of Advance Registration because they had not known to provide the required permit.
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