This Week in QUEST…
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-April General Body Meeting
-Foundations of Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics Lecture
-Celebrating Latino Heritage in Science and Technology
-Lambda Alliance Endorsements For Undergraduate Assembly
-Mr. & Mrs. SEAS Date Auction
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Dearest QUEST,

This past week has been a blast with all the different events going on. Today was an especially great day with Team QUEST being a competitive team in the day's Pride Games (beating out many sports teams) and then later going to Quizzo at Mikey's. Quizzo turned out to be quite a successful event for us and might be QUEST's QPenn tradition in future years!

Stay tuned for more of our events! In the mean time, check out "Celebration Latino Heritage in Science and Technology" tomorrow, hosted by SHPE!

April General Body Meeting
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Join QUEST for our April general body meeting. It will be on Tuesday, April 7th at 6pm in the LGBT Center. We have invited LGBT professors to come and speak with us about relevant issues in their chosen career paths. We hope you can join us!
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Foundations of Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics Lecture
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Joan Lau is a Penn Alum and active in PennGALA. She also works at Merck and is a Penn professor. She will be giving a lecture with a few speakers from the scientific area in industry to talk about their experiences.  Interested students must let the professor know in advance (jlau@sas.upenn.edu) by April 6th. The event will be in Meyerson B5 from 6:30-8:30pm on April 8th, 2009.
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Celebrating Latino Heritage in Science and Technology
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We would formally like to invite you to our next event, which takes place tomorrow evening at 7PM. It is entitled, "A Celebration of Latino Heritage in Science and Technology" and features the DEAN of SEAS, Eduardo Glandt. The event will be fully catered, and is one of the few public events the Dean has decided to participate in this year. Please come out and show your support. It should be a wonderful evening, and we have been working hard to make this event a success.

The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Presents:
"Celebrating Latino Heritage in Science and Technology" With Eduardo Glandt, Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science Honoring Professor Alejandro Ribiero, Pedro Ponte Avellaneda, Jorge Santiago-Aviles, Paulo Arratia

March 30th, 7-9PM
ARCH Building Lobby, 3601 Locust Walk
Food and Drink will be served
All invited to attend
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Lambda Alliance Endorsements For Undergraduate Assembly
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The time for voting has arrived!  Each year, the Lambda Alliance endorses candidates for the Undergraduate Assembly.  As the highest undergraduate policy-making body, UA candidates can do much to advance the agenda of the LGBT community here at Penn.  Lambda has backed several exceptional candidates this year.  I sincerely urge you to log on to PennInTouch and place your votes for the following people:

College:
Matt Amalfitano
Ariella Chivil
Lucia Liu
Mark Pan
Alec Webley

Engineering:
Daniel Sanchez
Emily Shaeffer
Justin Warner

Nursing:
G.J. Melendez-Torres

Wharton:
Tyler Ernst

Voting has already begun! All you have to do is log on to Penn InTouch (accessible through PennPortal) and click on the Elections link to the left.

Sincerely,
Dennie Zastrow, Chair
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Mr. & Mrs. SEAS Date Auction
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This Thursday, ESAC will be holding its annual Mr. and Mrs. SEAS Date Auction. Some of the hottest engineers (including QUEST co-chair Matt Feczko) will be auctioned off to the highest bidder. The winning bidder and their date get a gift certificate to any Steven Starr restaurant. The pre-sale tickets are $5 in front of Towne 111, and $7 at the door. Proceeds go to benefit the American Cancer Society in honor of belated professor Dr. Leif Finkel. Food and entertainment will be provided.
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We wish you the best in your studies!

-The QUEST Board