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Does brain damage improve artistic skills?
It’s hardly surprising that brain damage can change the way some people express themselves artistically. For people with Alzheimer’s, autism, or affected by stroke—three very different kinds of brain damage—the art may even get richer and more nuanced, or cleaner and simpler, depending on the effects of the disease, according to one Penn researcher.
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Ask Benny: Where can I find day care at Penn?
Dear Benny,I walk past College Hall just about every day—and I can’t help wondering how old that building is. So tell me, how long has College Hall been around? —Curious Bypasser Dear Campus Walker, The short answer to your question is this: College Hall has been sitting in West Philly as long as Penn has been sitting in West Philly.
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On a sacred quest
Following the success of “Historic Houses of Philadelphia” (Penn Press, 1998), Roger Moss has spent the last three years working on a second volume, “Historic Sacred Places of Philadelphia” (Penn Press, 2004). Teaming up once again with architectural photographer Tom Crane, Moss takes readers of the newly published book on a history-rich visual tour of some of the city’s finest places of worship. Though packed with scholarly insight and historic research, it’s as much a coffee table book as an academic tome. And that’s just how Moss wants it.
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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