The topic of Friday afternoon's seminar was ovarian cancer, but at the heart was an interest in improving women's knowledge of their health.
The seminar was the first in a series hosted by the Women's Resource Center, which for the last year has offered health services and programs designed specifically for women at Pennsylvania Hospital, part of the University Health System.
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Drexel University is set to seriously spruce up its library -and through a Web site, nonetheless.
After receiving a grant of over $600,000 this month, Drexel has announced that it will turn the Internet Public Library - currently the largest free online collection and reference service accessible to anyone with the Internet - into an even more comprehensive online learning community.
Greek leaders at Penn are trying to make sorority life a bit less expensive.
This semester, the Panhellenic Council, which oversees all sororities on campus, is offering two $200 scholarships to sorority members who joined a chapter last year.
Next semester, anyone who is interested in rushing a sorority will be eligible to apply for the dues scholarship.
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As Penn's Alex Fairman jumped for the ball around midfield in the second half, he received a jarring blow to his stomach from a Lehigh player, leaving him lying on the field gasping for breath.
It was just that kind of soccer game at Rhodes Field Saturday, where Penn tied Lehigh 1-1.
University Finances: Creative investments yield higher returns
Penn officials attribute $6.6B endowment to increased focus on international markets
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A specialized focus on diversified investments and international markets has helped the University's endowment swell to $6.6 billion, a figure that was announced at last Thursday's Board of Trustees meeting.
Penn officials attribute $6.6B endowment to increased focus on international markets
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The creativity behind the posters, chalking and flyers of this semester's freshmen student-government campaigns is certainly turning heads across campus.
West Philadelphia resident Latisha Turnage needed help.
At 26, she had no job, no house, no education and no prospects.
Her mother Tracy told her to go to a small office building at 61st Street and Osage Avenue, the local home of National Student Partnerships .
Golden ornaments and semi-precious stones fill the second-floor Dietrich Gallery at the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, where the "River of Gold: Precolumbian Treasures from Sitio Conte" exhibit is now on display.
WILMINGTON, Del. - Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya was outside the apartment where Irina Zlotnikov was bludgeoned to death but did not enter the building, Malinovskaya admitted in a taped police interrogation shown in court Friday.
In an interview with Det.


