2008 Woodie Awards
Already known for "Rockin' the Suburbs," Ben Folds will be rockin' Penn's campus this April.
Folds will be this year's Spring Fling headline performer, Social Planning and Events Committee officials confirmed yesterday.
Folds, a singer-songwriter, announced on his Myspace.
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For the first time, Penn has chosen to take advantage of the free ad space given to all tournament participants by the CBS network and will air one of three 30-second spots that it has developed with the advertisement agency Red-Tettemer.
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Without the surgery, her heart would stop. But Esther refused because it just wasn't kosher - literally.
As an Orthodox Jew, Esther deemed a pig-valve replacement unkosher, and the world watched as everyone's favorite surgical interns scrambled to find an appropriate alternative.
Hope despite troubling AIDS stats
UN Special Envoy Stephen Lewis shared recent discoveries that could curb the spread of HIV
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Despite 1,000 people dying every day in South Africa from AIDS, international response is moving at a snail's pace.
Stephen Lewis, former UN ambassador, deputy executive director of UNICEF and special UN envoy for HIV/AIDS, spoke at yesterday's Penn Global Forum about both the many setbacks and achievements with regard to the disease and its spread throughout Africa.
UN Special Envoy Stephen Lewis shared recent discoveries that could curb the spread of HIV
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Theft
Feb. 17 - A male student reported that his camcorder, worth about $800, was stolen from a room inside Meyerson Hall at about 5:00 p.m.
Feb. 17 - Michael Urquhart, 32, of the 700 block of Mayfair Street, allegedly took items without paying from the Wawa located at 3604 Chestnut St.
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Fundraising, facilitating internal growth and reaffirming urban partnerships are on the agenda for incoming Graduate School of Education Dean Andrew Porter.
Currently the director of Vanderbilt University's Learning Sciences Institute, Porter will replace Susan Fuhrman, who left GSE last spring to assume the presidency of Columbia University's Teachers College.
Catching up with conservation
As Yale University posts large energy-use reductions, Penn works to implement its own initiatives
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At Yale University, bright ideas don't necessarily require that much energy.
Yale officials announced last week that energy consumption in its 20 undergraduate college houses has decreased by 17.3 percent since the 2004 academic year.
Installing new technology in the dorms, as well as educating students about conservation, helped the dorms cut down energy usage, Yale's energy manager Thomas Downing said.
As Yale University posts large energy-use reductions, Penn works to implement its own initiatives
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