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Penn Libraries to Digitize 17th- and 18th-Century Manuscripts
PHILADELPHIA —The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded Penn’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library a grant of $300,000 to digitize and make available on the World Wide Web a collection of approximately 1,000 European and American manuscripts from 1601 to 1800.
Penn GSE, Departments of Education and Commerce Conference Set: Education Technology as an Export
PHILADELPHIA — The Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania has joined forces with the U.S. departments of Commerce and Education to organize the Exporting Education Technology Conference, May 16 at Penn.
Penn Researchers Identify the Roots of Memory Impairment Resulting From Sleep Deprivation
PHILADELPHIA — From high-school students to surgeons, anyone who has pulled an all-nighter knows there is a price to be paid the next day: trouble focusing, a fuzzy memory and other cognitive impairments.
Joan Hendricks Is Reappointed Dean of the Penn School of Veterinary Medicine
PHILADELPHIA -- Joan Hendricks has been appointed to a second term as dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Penn GSE and IUR to Host “Preparing Today’s Students for Tomorrow’s Jobs in Metropolitan America”
PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education is hosting “Preparing Today’s Students for Tomorrow’s Jobs in Metropolitan America: The Policy, Practice and Research Issues,” May 25-26 in Houston Hall, 3733 Sp
Two Penn Students Named Albert Schweitzer Fellows
PHILADELPHIA — Two graduate students from the University of Pennsylvania, along with 13 others from the greater Philadelphia region, have each been awarded an Albert Schweitzer Fellowship.
Penn’s Field Center to Hear Bill Cosby as Keynote Speaker at “One Child, Many Hands” Conference
PHILADELPHIA — The Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Research at the University of Pennsylvania announced today that Bill Cosby will serve as the opening keynote speaker for its fourth biennial conference, “One Child, Many Hands: A Multidisciplinary Conference on Child Welfare,” J
University of Pennsylvania Receives $15 Million Gift to Enhance Student Life and Learning
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania has received a $15 million gift from an anonymous donor to renovate the historic Arts, Research and Culture House, to create a center for campus life that builds on the cultural diversity of Penn students and offers a rich intellectual and social experience for the entire University community.
Penn Nursing Signs Memorandum of Understanding With Peking University’s Nursing School
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and the School of Nursing at Peking University in Beijing have established a memorandum of understanding creating a formal research relationship between the schools.
Penn Research Demonstrates Motivation Plays a Critical Role in Determining IQ Test Scores
PHILADELPHIA — New psychology research at the University of Pennsylvania demonstrates a correlation between a test-taker’s motivation and performance on an IQ test and, more important, between that performance and a person’s future success.