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Federal grant will enable Netter Center's nutrition program to expand service
Did You Know... that the University of Pennsylvania's Netter Center was given a three-year $900,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health along with a $100,000 local match?

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Penn Powers Down: University-Wide Effort Nets 21 Percent Reduction in Electricity Use
Did You Know... that the University of Pennsylvania reduced its electricity usage by 13 megawatt hours during a recent hour-long Power Down Challenge?

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Preserving the Lazaretto's place in history
Did You Know... that David Barnes, associate professor of Department of History and Sociology of Science in the School of Arts and Sciences, is working to preserve one of the oldest quarantine facilities in the world?

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Penn Vet students blog about treating animals in Nepal
Did You Know... that three Penn Vet students are blogging about their summer experience of treating rural animals in Nepal and helping to train community members there in basic animal health and husbandry?

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Penn Physicists Honored With 2010 Europhysics Prize


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Penn student identifies new species of dinosaur
Did You Know... that Andrew McDonald, a Penn Ph.D. student in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, has indentified a new species of dinosaur - Jeyawati rugoculus?

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I-V-Y CHAMPS! Women's Golf Wins First Title!
Did You Know... that the Penn women's golf team won their first Ivy League Championship team title this past Sunday at the famed Baltusrol golf course in Springfield, New Jersey?

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New $25.5 million Abramson family gift to fund cancer research at Penn Medicine
Did You Know...that the Abramson family has donated an additional $25.5 million gift to fund cancer research at Penn Medicine?

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UPenn School of Medicine ranked #2 by U.S. News & World Report
Penn is also listed in the top five nationally for Pediatrics, Women's Health, Internal medicine, and Drug & Alcohol abuse.

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$17.3 Million In Largest Ever Gift to Penn Dental
Did You Know...Louis Schoenleber Jr., C'42, D'43, a World War II Navy commander and oral surgeon, left proceeds from his multi-million-dollar estate, a bequest totaling $17.3 million to Penn Dental Medicine's Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery?

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Hackney: closing a chapter in Penn history
Did You Know...that former Penn president Sheldon Hackney recently retired after 25 years at Penn?

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Edna Foa, PhD - 2010 TIME 100 most influential people in the world


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Jerome Allen - Men's Basketball Coach
Did You Know... that Jerome Allen, W'09, is Penn's new John R. Rockwell Head Coach of Men's Basketball?

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Ramsey Lewis - Spring 2010 Artist
Did You Know...that jazz legend Ramsey Lewis will be the Spring 2010 Artist in Residence for Penn's Center for Africana Studies?

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School of Nursing to host: Cities and Women's Health: Global Perspectives
Did You Know... that the School of Nursing will host “Cities and Women's Health: Global Perspectives,” Wednesday, April 7, through Saturday, April 10, on Penn's campus?

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Jon M. Huntsman Jr., U.S. Ambassador to China, to Speak at Penn's 254th Commencement
Did You Know... that the Honorable Jon M. Huntsman, Jr., C'87, ambassador to China, will deliver the address at Penn's 254th Commencement on May 17th?

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UPenn Scientists Turn Light Into Electrical Current Using a Golden Nanoscale System
Did You Know...that Penn material scientists demonstrated turning light into an electrical current using a golden nanoscale system?

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Diving Records Fall In Win Over West Chester
Did You Know... that Penn sophomore, Jeff Cragg, W'12, broke long-standing diving records, including his father's, Rob Cragg, C'75, at a recent meet against West Chester?

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Penn Law's Criminal Law Research Group Seminar
Did You Know... that Penn Law's Criminal Law Research Group seminar traveled to Harrisburg, PA, on December 15 to advise lawmakers on making the state's criminal penalties fit more rationally with criminal offenses?

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