The four-week class runs on March 3, 10, 17 and 31, 2012 at WHYY’s Dorrance H. Hamilton Public Media Commons, 150 N. 6th St. The program will be taught by Amit Das, director of GSE Films and a GSE senior fellow; Craig Santoro, director of media instruction at WHYY; and Steve Dixon and Henry Cohn-Geltner, WHYY media instructors. Participants will use basic digital video cameras and editing software, learn to script, shoot and edit short videos and discover the formal concepts of fiction and documentary film.
The program costs $750; a discount is available to WHYY members and GSE students, faculty and staff. For more information, go to: www.gse.upenn.edu/learning-media-production.
Nanoparticle blueprints reveal path to smarter medicines
New research involving Penn Engineering shows detailed variation in lipid nanoparticle size, shape, and internal structure, and finds that such factors correlate with how well they deliver therapeutic cargo to a particular destination.
A generous gift from alumni Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman brings the work of internationally acclaimed artist Jaume Plensa to the University of Pennsylvania. The latest addition to the Penn Art Collection expands Philadelphia's public art.
A massive chunk of ice, a new laser, and new information on sea-level rise
For nearly a decade, Leigh Stearns and collaborators aimed a laser scanner system at Greenland’s Helheim Glacier. Their long-running survey reveals that Helheim’s massive calving events don’t behave the way scientists once thought, reframing how ice loss contributes to sea-level rise.
