Subject: 3/6/19: Penn Today for Parents
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Wednesday, March 6, 2019
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/university-pennsylvania-names-school-design-recognition-stuart-weitzmans-lifetime-commitment
‘An inspiration of thousands of students’ (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/university-pennsylvania-names-school-design-recognition-stuart-weitzmans-lifetime-commitment?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=b8f403b268-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_26_01_33_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-b8f403b268-44504553)
The School of Design is being named the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design in honor of his ongoing philanthropic support and active engagement in Penn’s academic activities. Mr. Weitzman graduated from the Wharton School in 1963. “His lifelong support of the University and the School of Design truly aligns his own body of work in design with his ongoing commitment to Penn in the most meaningful and impactful way,” said President Amy Gutmann. In addition, the School’s central plaza, adjacent to College Green between Meyerson Hall and the Fisher Fine Arts Library, will be named The Stuart Weitzman Plaza and will undergo significant redesign and renovation.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/medha-narvekar-named-penns-vice-president-and-secretary-university
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Medha Narvekar has been named vice president and secretary of the University. Narvekar, currently senior associate vice president of development and alumni relations, will take over the post on July 1. In making the announcement, President Amy Gutmann said, “Very few people know Penn as well as Medha or have worked so successfully with so many people across our University.” Narvekar succeeds Leslie Kruhly, who is retiring.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/dance-theatre-harlem-comes-campus
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Dance Theatre of Harlem performed at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts last weekend. The renowned ballet company is also serving as Annenberg’s second artist-in-residence, engaging the community on campus and beyond.
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In 1896, W.E.B. Du Bois was appointed an assistant instructor at Penn and began his investigation of Philadelphia’s Seventh Ward—research that he would turn into his groundbreaking work, “The Philadelphia Negro.” Today, it is considered the world’s first scientific study of race. “He was a person of color at a time when we weren’t supposed to be so smart and have such strong opinions and when it was socially acceptable to exclude and ignore their contributions,” says Camille Z. Charles of the School of Arts and Sciences.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/how-technology-making-education-more-accessible
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Amrou Ibrahim of Penn’s Office of Student Disabilities Services spends his days helping seven students with low vision, along with students with learning or reading disabilities, access course materials using new technologies and personally updating materials. It’s part of an evolving field that uses technology to promote greater access to education.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-trustees-approve-2019-20-financial-aid-budget-and-tuition
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The University of Pennsylvania Board of Trustees has approved a 3.9% increase in tuition for the coming year, while also approving a record $247 million undergraduate financial aid budget, an increase of 4.5% percent and the largest financial aid budget in Penn’s history. Currently, 46 percent of Penn’s undergraduate students receive grant-based financial aid packages, with an average of $53,943 in funding—more than the cost of tuition.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-announces-eight-2019-thouron-award-winners
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Seven seniors and a 2018 alum have won Thouron Awards to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom. Each scholarship winner receives tuition and stipends for as long as two years of graduate study.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/cells-use-sugars-communicate-molecular-level
Cellular communication (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/cells-use-sugars-communicate-molecular-level?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=b8f403b268-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_26_01_33_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-b8f403b268-44504553)
Research from the School of Arts and Sciences’ Virgil Percec and colleagues reveals how cells communicate at the molecular level. Their discovery provides researchers with a new tool to study living systems in incredible detail, enabling future breakthroughs in fields ranging from materials science to nanomedicine.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/perfect-blend-cutting-edge-technology-and-real-world-vision
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At her Seattle high school, freshman Angela Lin satisfied her hunger for connection with local business and technology leaders by starting her own organization, Innovateen. Now in her first year in the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology, Lin is surrounded by the culture she craved. “I really like that kind of energy,” she says.
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It has taken nearly a decade for David McKnight and his team at the Penn Libraries to sort and catalogue the contents of the Gotham Book Mart, the legendary New York City bookstore and publisher. The donation included more than 200,000 books and thousands of archival, manuscript, and art pieces. A new exhibition, now on display at the Kislak Center through May 20, showcases 300 select items.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/tour-ancient-world-mandarin
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The Penn Museum is the only museum in Philadelphia that regularly offers tours in Mandarin. Susan Radov, a senior from Baltimore, Maryland, is a guide for the program, delivering Mandarin-language tours based on cultural-context information from native speakers. “I think it just goes to the mission of Penn to really have multiculturalism and language in every thread of the University,” Radov says.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/ignorance-blackface
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Blackface has been much in the news recently. Historian Mia Bay of the School of Arts and Sciences discusses the history of blackface, its intent, and why it is still occurring even in the 21st century. “Part of … why blackface is so odious is that [it has] this long association with racism—and vicious kinds of racism at that,” she says. “How many different times does someone have to tell you something offends them before you take it seriously?
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/campus-running-club-benefits-body-and-brain
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Three times a week runners gather in Annenberg Plaza to exercise their bodies and stretch their minds. Through regular runs as well as monthly running and walking lectures, the group, led by the Annenberg School for Communication’s Kyle Cassidy (third from right), Matt O’Donnell (second from right), and Natalie Herbert (not pictured), fosters community and health while promoting intellectual exchange.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/button-lets-plants-make-flowers
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Flowers aren’t just pretty to look at; without them, plants couldn’t reproduce. Investigating the critical process of flower formation in plants, School of Arts and Sciences biologist Doris Wagner and colleagues discovered how a key gene is shut off in order for blooms to form. “Identity is not just what you are; it’s what you aren’t,” she says.
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