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Penn to provide tax offsets for employees in same-sex partnerships

The University announced in the May 22 edition of The Almanac that it will provide up to $125 a month or $1,500 per year to employees who pay taxes to the Internal Revenue Service for health benefits their partners receive.
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Geoffrey Canada encourages Penn graduates to 'join the losing team'

Addressing Penn’s graduating Class of 2012, founder of Harlem Children’s Zone Geoffrey Canada asked, “Do you care about those who won’t make it without real help?”
3 · 05/15/12 1:24pm

Monks in real life

A group of 20 Penn students spent their spring semester “being surrounded by noise [while] trying to be silent.”
05/11/12 1:22am

Note to readers: The Daily Pennsylvanian has finished publishing for the semester and will resume publication in the fall. Be sure to check out the first issue of The Summer Pennsylvanian on May 24. 11 hours ago

Creating a new generation of the Unification Church

Founded in South Korea by Sun Myung Moon in 1954, the Unification Church spread to the United States in 1971.
16 · 05/11/12 12:10am

College grads donate $25 million to open new cancer research center

Mindy and Jonathan Gray, both 1992 College graduates, have donated $25 million to create the Basser Research Center, a new cancer research center focused on researching BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.
1 · 05/11/12 1:22am

Venture capitalists contribute to entrepreneurship at Penn

A handful of actively engaged venture capitalists have helped strengthen Penn’s connection to the world of startups and entrepreneurship on several levels of university life, from the Engineering School to Penn’s endowment.
05/10/12 9:46pm