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Flu risk could have easily been avoided
Newspapers and television news stations have been reporting for weeks about the shortage of influenza vaccines in the U.S.—and Americans’ sometimes frantic attempts to get a flu shot. But just how big a deal is this national shortage? According to Dr. Neil Fishman, an expert in infectious diseases at Penn, it’s a very big deal indeed. And the worst part is, he says, it could have easily been avoided.
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Penn’s Landing a key opportunity?
When Mayor John Street announced last month that development plans for Philadelphia’s Penn’s Landing had once again been put on hold, Harris Steinberg, unlike many other Philadelphians, wasn’t disappointed. In fact, he was optimistic.
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Penn, Harvard on collision course
The Penn football team hasn’t always won pretty this year, but they’ve won nonetheless. And, as a result, the Quakers’ dominance over the Ivy League continues. With a 17-7 win over Yale on Oct. 23, Penn extended its Ivy League winning streak to 18 games, and upped its season record to 5-1. The 18-game win streak breaks the previous Ivy League record of 17 straight wins—also set by Penn, from 1992-1995.
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Cracking the code of an ancient culture
After Simon Martin left a successful design career to spend his days deciphering Mayan hieroglyphics, some of his colleagues thought he was “bonkers.” But for the British-born Martin, now a research specialist in Mayan epigraphy at Penn Museum and an internationally renowned Mayan hieroglyphics expert, the career move made perfect sense—and it was a long time coming.
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Growth Factors Confer Immortality to Sperm-generating Stem Cells
PHILADELPHIA -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine have identified the growth factors essential to allow spermatogonial stem cells -- the continually self-renewing cells that produce sperm -- to exist in culture indefinitely. Their findings will be presented this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science online Early Edition.
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It's "Bush by a Nose" in Forecast by Delphi Survey Experts
PHILADELPHIA -- In the most recent Delphi Survey on this year's presidential election, a panel of 17 American political experts predicts a hair-splitting, 1 percent margin of victory for President Bush in the two-party vote for president. J. Scott Armstrong, professor of marketing at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, said the experts were 95 percent certain that Bush will receive at least 48 percent and not more than 53 percent of the two-party vote.
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International Students and Scholars at Penn Will Offer Helping Hands for the American Election
NOTE TO EDITORS: Interviews with individual international-student volunteers can be arranged. Also, media representatives may attend either of two Oct. 27 training sessions and/or accompany the volunteers to polling places on Nov. 2.Oct. 25, 2004PHILADELPHIA On Election Day next week, Americans won't be the only ones participating in our 228-year-old democracy.
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Annenberg Foundation Awards $32.5 Million to Penn for New Policy Center Building and Humanities Chair
PHILADELPHIA--The University of Pennsylvania has received a $30 million gift, with $22 million from the Annenberg Foundation of Radnor, Pa., and $8 million from the Annenberg Trust at Sunnylands, to construct a building that will adjoin the Annenberg School for Communication and house the School's Annenberg Public Policy Center, Penn President Amy Gutmann announced today at the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Center at Penn.
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Christopher Patusky Named Executive Director of Fels Institute of Government at Penn
PHILADELPHIA-- Christopher Patusky has been named executive director of the 67-year-old Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania.Patusky advances to the position after almost three years as deputy director of the Institute and director of several major funded projects totaling some $1.5 million. His most recent grant of $250,000 from the Carnegie Corporation will support Fels students working with MSNBC at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia to monitor Election Day complaints about voting rights violations across the nation.
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Penn Students "Trick or Treat" at President Amy Gutmann's House
Penn Students "Trick or Treat" at President Amy Gutmann's HouseWHO:Amy Gutmann, University of Pennsylvania president, Penn studentsWHAT:Penn students trick or treating WHEN:Oct. 31, 20047-8 p.m.WHERE:Eisenlohr, the Penn president's home3812 Walnut St.Dr. Amy Gutmann will be dressed in costume as she greets trick-or-treaters at her home and hands out goodies. Students and the Penn community will be dropping in and having hot chocolate and treats with Dr. Gutmann