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After Nixon, Ormandy went to China
“Ormandy in China: The Historic 1973 Tour,” an exhibit in the Otto E. Albrecht Music Library on the fourth floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s landmark series of concerts in Beijing and Shanghai.
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Penn researchers show how brain ‘geotags’ memory
The hippocampus in the brain is associated with remembering events and tracking locations. Until recently, researchers had been unable to determine whether the same sets of neurons were involved in both of these processes. Now, because of a video game-based experiment, a team from Penn, Freiburg University, and Drexel has shown that these systems work together, adding a spatial “geotag” to memories of specific events. [youtube]http://youtu.be/JxDCW4EfFiY[/youtube]
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Penn’s Center for Tech Transfer Partners With British-based IP Group
The University of Pennsylvania, through its Center for Technology Transfer and its UPstart company formation program, has announced a new partnership with IP Group PLC, developer of intellectual property-based businesses.
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Penn researchers devise new concept for solar panels
Current solar panels need two materials to work: one that absorbs light and excites electrons, and another that gets those electrons to flow in one direction, producing electrical current.
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Penn to Require Licensees of Apparel to Sign Safety Accord
The University has accepted a recommendation from its Committee on Manufacturer Responsibility to require all licensees that sourced, produced or purchased collegiate apparel in Bangladesh to become signatories of The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh and abide by its requirements as soon as possible. This Accord establishes a fire and building safety program by which manufacturers and retailers must abide to improve working conditions.
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Gutmann, Cohen, and Rendell talk politics in Fels course
Students in a “Topics in Government” class were recently treated to a lively conversation with three esteemed experts on politics and government—former Philadelphia mayor, Pennsylvania governor, and course professor Ed Rendell, his former press secretary, campaign manager, and chief of staff David L. Cohen, and Penn President Amy Gutmann.
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The changing Chinatowns in Philadelphia, New York, and Boston
Chinatowns were created in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries because of the forced segregation and zoning laws partly related to the Chinese Exclusion Act. This law restricted immigration of low-wage Chinese laborers who arrived in the United States during the Gold Rush and helped to build the nation’s first transcontinental railroad. Today, the landscapes of Chinatowns along the East Coast are evolving with the influx of new real estate development and gentrification that could change the neighborhoods’ role as a cultural and social hub.
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Penn Emergency Medicine Physician Named as Director of the Federal Emergency Care Coordination Center
Brendan G. Carr, MD, MA, MS, assistant professor of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennslyvania, has been named as the director of the Emergency Care Coordination Center (ECCC).
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Penn Student Finds Her Calling in Printmaking and Public Service
If University of Pennsylvania senior Loren Kole could give her younger freshman year self some advice, it would be this: Don’t get hung up on what you think you should be doing. Like most of her Ivy League contemporaries, Kole is a high achiever in and out of the classroom.
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Penn Medicine: Brain Connectivity Study Reveals Striking Differences Between Men and Women
A new brain connectivity study from Penn Medicine published today in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences found striking differences in the neural wiring of men and women that’s lending credence to some commonly-held beliefs about their behavior.