2008 Woodie Awards
The overall growth of applications from international graduate students has steadily declined over the last three years, according to a report released April 18 by the Council of Graduate Schools.
Despite overall national decrease, 62 percent of the schools surveyed - including Penn - reported an average increase of 9 percent.
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Professor Dan Bogen loves children's toys - designing them, that is.
Bogen, an associate professor of Bioengineering since 1982, started a program called PennToys as a project for his Bioengineering Senior Design students. For more than 14 years, students involved with PennToys have designed devices so medical researches and therapists can use them to help diagnose and treat disabled children.
Lawyers for the family of Anne Ryan have dropped punitive damage charges from their malpractice lawsuit against the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Ryan, a College sophomore, died of meningitis last September after being misdiagnosed by Student Health and HUP physicians.
Robbery
April 12 - A female unaffiliated with the University reported that while walking within a building on the 3400 block of Market St., an unknown suspect forcibly removed her pocketbook and fled the scene, at about 6:30 p.m.
Assault
April 12 - Jason China, 26, of the 1700 block of 19th St.
Little aid for financial literacy at Penn
Students don't always know how to manage money because of limited U. assistance
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While many Penn students juggle academics, extracurricular activities and a social life, there is still one thing left for many to learn to balance - a checkbook.
With the importance of financial literacy - knowledge of how to manage a credit-card to how to create a budget, for example - growing each and every year, trend-setting colleges all over the nation are reaching out to their students and expanding the financial advising resources available to them.
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Nanotech Institute gets $3.5 M grant
Money enhances other Penn initiatives to fund and improve research in the field
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Nanotechnology - a field that involves manipulating matter on the atomic scale - is helping scientists reshape the technological world by making things smaller and smaller. At Penn, though, the attention being paid to nanotechnology has never been bigger.
So when the state announced earlier this month it was giving a $3.
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Photos by Mustafa Al-ammar, Rachel Baye, Ivona Boroje, and Alvin Loke
With victory, Clinton keeps her bid alive
N.Y. Senator defeated Obama, winning 60 of state's 67 counties
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After six long weeks of campaigning, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) has won the Pennsylvania primary.
According to exit polls, undecided voters - many of them white and concerned with the economy - were crucial in Clinton's win, handing her a much-needed victory over Sen.
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"Vote today!"
So shouted a student in a "Barack the Vote" shirt outside Hill College House yesterday, reminding students to vote in the highly-anticipated Pennsylvania primary.
But despite the Illinois senator's strong grassroots campaign in Philadelphia and enthusiasm from young voters - 72 percent of voting Penn students chose Obama - that widespread activism wasn't enough yesterday, as New York Sen.
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Penn students turned out in record numbers to vote in the Pennsylvania primary yesterday, in order to cast ballots in the pivotal contest between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Altogether, about 2,500 students, more than one-fifth of Penn's student body, voted in this year's election - a significant jump from the 2006 midterm elections, when about 1,500 students voted in the general election.
Students make a different kind of donation
Campus group aims to get more students on bone marrow registry
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Saving someone's life may start with something as simple as a cheek swab.
Wharton freshman Andrew Brodsky is living proof. Diagnosed with leukemia at the age of 16, Brodsky received a bone marrow transplant that saved his life.
His donor - a close to perfect genetic match - was a male living in New York who had his cheek swabbed at a bone marrow registry drive that his fraternity organized at Northwestern University.
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