2008 Woodie Awards
The man some have credited with ending the Vietnam War is coming to Penn.
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger - a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - will speak at Irvine Auditorium at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 14.
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Next fall, the first step to recovery for drug and alcohol addicts could be swiping into Harrison College House.
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Penn professor Richard Gelles was once hired by Philadelphia's Department of Health Services, but now he says he'll testify against city officials to help clean the department up.
Gelles, dean of Penn's School of Social Policy and Practice, will likely be heavily involved with the fallout of a DHS scandal regarding neglect of children as government officials investigate the department in the coming months.
School days hold a hint of future for alum, Rep.
Harold Ford Jr. has risen far and fast in politics, and those who knew him at Penn can see how
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Imagine your girlfriend, your roommate, your class president, that kid sitting next to you in biology class.
Imagine that only four years after you leave Penn, one of those students will be on the floor of Congress, teaming up with Nancy Pelosi and arguing against Dennis Hastert.
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Trustees to discuss financial aid, faculty at meetings
Board will convene today for the first time this semester
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University trustees plan to discuss issues ranging from Student Health Services to faculty retention as they convene for their fall meetings today.
Sixty current board members and 30 former ones plan to partake in the meetings, according to University Secretary Leslie Kruhly.
Board will convene today for the first time this semester
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Philadelphia's three Tower Records stores will soon shut down due to lack of revenue, but students say they won't notice the absence of the once-landmark stores.
Tower Records stores across the country, about 100 locations listed on the chain's Web site, are closing due to bankruptcy, a probable byproduct, experts say, of increased online music sales.
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If hydrogen power is the way of the future, then Iceland is ahead of its time, according to Hjalti Pall Ingolfsson.
Ingolfsson, project leader of Icelandic New Energy Ltd., spoke in Houston Hall yesterday on the future of hydrogen power and said Iceland is leading the way in using renewable energy sources, such as hydrogen and geothermal power, due to governmental support and natural resources.
Lots of Penn students dream of big futures, but members of the Penn Nanotech Society are dreaming on a much, much smaller scale.
Yesterday, the group joined with the Penn Nano/Bio Interface Center to host "Nano Day," a series of presentations designed to dispel myths and increase awareness of tiny technology.
