University of Pennsylvania - best news, blogs, videos, photos and more - Boxxet http://www.boxxet.com/University_of_Pennsylvania/ en-us info@boxxet.com The best of University of Pennsylvania is now on Campus Mixxer. See more at http://campusmixxer.com/University_of_Pennsylvania/ Boxxet http://www.boxxet.com/template/base2/img/boxxet-rss-logo.gif University of Pennsylvania - Best News, Blogs, Videos, Bookmarks, Search, Photos of UPenn from Boxxet http://www.boxxet.com/University_of_Pennsylvania/ 95 94 News: Wharton School Announces New Comprehensive Internship Program Connecting MBA Students with Summertime Opportunities Focused on Interactive Media, Social Impact and High Growth Firms http://campusmixxer.com/University_of_Pennsylvania/post:news-wharton-school-announces-new-comprehensive-internship-program-connecting-mba-students-with-summertime-opportunities-focused-on-interactive-media-social-impact-and-high-growth-firms/ PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 25, 2009 -- The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania announced a new comprehensive program that subsidizes employer stipends for MBA summer internships this year. The program is managed by the Wharton MBA Career Management office and leverages empl...


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]]> http://campusmixxer.com/University_of_Pennsylvania/news:indiana-university-of-pennsylvania-establishes-leadership-center/ 14 Jun 2009 23:38:00 PDT Preserving Springsteen oldies, goodies. http://campusmixxer.com/University_of_Pennsylvania/news:preserving-springsteen-oldies-goodies/  PA There's a notebook from a University of Pennsylvania shop, another bearing a map of New Jersey, at least two with Snoopy on the cover. One orange composition book has lines on the cover for the user to fill in a name, address, and subject. ...


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  •   News: Wharton School Announces New Internship Program for Undergraduates Working with Socially-Focused Businesses and Ventures -- from Wharton News
  •   Penn Muscle Institute Researchers Awarded $6.7 Million from NIH to Study Molecular Motors -- from Penn Medicine News
  •   Scores protest results of Iran's presidential election -- from Philadelphia Inquirer
  •   Hemispherx Biopharma Appoints Robert Dickey IV to the New Position ... - GlobeNewsWire -- from press release
  •   Obama's half-sister, Soetoro-Ng and Penny Pritzker's husband ... -- from Chicago Sun-Times
  •   Knee Replacements: Pinpointing the Cause of Infection - DOTmed.com -- from press release
  •   Medicine instructor selling for $1.025M in Center City West -- from Blockshopper
  •   Gene Findings Revealing Reasons For Neuroblastoma Risk - Science Daily -- from press release
  •   U Penn prof, artist selling in East Mount Airy -- from Blockshopper
  •   UCLA leads nation in protecting med students from drug industry ... -- from UC Los Angeles

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]]> http://campusmixxer.com/University_of_Pennsylvania/post:growing-retail-clinic-trend-makes-few-inroads-in-poor-underserved-areas/ 26 May 2009 07:30:00 PDT Penn Medicine Physician Jill M. Baren To Lead Society for Academic Emergency Medicine http://campusmixxer.com/University_of_Pennsylvania/post:penn-medicine-physician-jill-m-baren-to-lead-society-for-academic-emergency-medicine/ Jill M. Baren, MD, MBE, an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, will today become president of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, the nation’s largest organization devoted to research and education...


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“Giving Barack Obama an official helping hand are Susan Crawford,  well-known blogger, professor of law at the University of Michigan and and not-so-well-known viola aficionado, and Kevin Werbach, assistant professor of legal studies and business ethics at the University of Penns...


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]]> http://campusmixxer.com/University_of_Pennsylvania/podcast:pt-5-regional-and-national-financial-crises-roots-results-and-responses/ 12 Nov 2008 10:00:00 PST Podcast: Please Explain: Undecided Voters (The Leonard Lopate Show: Friday, 31 October 2008) http://campusmixxer.com/University_of_Pennsylvania/podcast:please-explain-undecided-voters-the-leonard-lopate-show-friday-31-october-2008/ Dr. Joshua Gold is Assistant Professor at the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Samuel Wang is Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Neuroscience at Princeton University, and author of Welcome to Your Brain. We're also joined by Carroll Doherty fr...


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]]> http://campusmixxer.com/University_of_Pennsylvania/opinion:honors-other-things/ 30 Sep 2008 06:22:52 PDT Ivy League Scores Low in Forbes’ College Rankings http://campusmixxer.com/University_of_Pennsylvania/post:ivy-league-scores-low-in-forbes-college-rankings/ Written by James Yu
Everyone is getting into the college rankings game these days, and everyone - it seems - has the same goal in mind: to dethrone the juggernaut that is the U.S. News & World Report. But while students and alums of certain liberal arts colleges and lesser-known universities are probably re...


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]]> http://campusmixxer.com/University_of_Pennsylvania/opinion:south-fayette-teacher-had-dream-job-for-35-years/ 04 Jun 2008 21:08:54 PDT Patch: University says no to Vista SP1 http://campusmixxer.com/University_of_Pennsylvania/patch:university-says-no-to-vista-sp1/ Written by Erna Mahyuni
After the drama that ensued about Microsoft putting out the Vista Service Pack 1 only to take it back, comes more bad news. The University of Pennsylvania’s tech support reportedly advised its faculty and students not to upgrade to Vista SP1. InformationWeek’s Paul McDougall had the lowd...


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]]> http://campusmixxer.com/University_of_Pennsylvania/patch:university-says-no-to-vista-sp1/ 23 Mar 2008 23:28:00 PDT Opinion: Global Warming Bet http://campusmixxer.com/University_of_Pennsylvania/opinion:global-warming-bet/ Written by Steve Verdon
A professor at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of business has challenged Al Gore to a bet over global temperatures. The bet is for $10,000 and the professor, Scott Armstrong, is betting that global mean temperatures will be pretty much as they are now, while Al Gore will hav...


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As many of you already know, Kalpen Modi will be teaching two undergraduate courses at the University of Pennsylvania in spring of 2008, one on Asian Americans in the Media and the other on American Teen Films. But unlike Hetal and Kapila, it looks as though some Penn students aren't too cra...


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]]> http://campusmixxer.com/University_of_Pennsylvania/post:is-kal-good-enough-for-penn/ 12 Apr 2007 08:35:08 PDT Teaching the Many Instead of the Few http://campusmixxer.com/University_of_Pennsylvania/news:teaching-the-many-instead-of-the-few/ A recent piece by Paul Farhi in the Washington Post notes that the test scores of American students on international tests are not nearly as poor as some critics would claim. According to two researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, cited by Farhi, Americans are above average when c...


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]]> http://campusmixxer.com/University_of_Pennsylvania/news:teaching-the-many-instead-of-the-few/ 01 Apr 2007 21:00:00 PDT Professor Kal Penn of U. Penn http://campusmixxer.com/University_of_Pennsylvania/news:professor-kal-penn-of-u-penn/ Written by Joshua Rich
Okay, my constant yearning to return to college got even yearnier today when I read the news that Kal Penn will be a visiting instructor at the University of Pennsylvania next year. Dude! Yep, our very own one-time stoner Kumar, who headed out to White Castle one day and returned one of the ho...


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