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Penn’s Arthur Ross Gallery to Host Talk on Museums in the 21st Century

As a part of its 30th anniversary celebration, the Arthur Ross Gallery is presenting a talk by Ford W. Bell, the president of the American Alliance of Museums, at 6:30 p.m., Monday, April 22, at the Class of 1978 Pavilion on the sixth floor in Van Pelt Library, 3420 Walnut St., on the University of Pennsylvania campus.

Penn Research May Help Drastically Reduce Cost of Powerful Microscope Technique

A dye-based imaging technique known as two-photon microscopy can produce pictures of active neural structures in much finer detail than functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, but it requires powerful and expensive lasers. Now, a research team at the University of Pennsylvania has developed a new kind of dye that could reduce the cost of the technique by several orders of magnitude.

Penn President Amy Gutmann: Immigration Day of Action

Rodrigo García to Teach at Penn April 22-23 as Kelly Writers House Fellow

Television and film director-writer Rodrigo García will teach and give public readings at the University of Pennsylvania as part of the Kelly Writers House Fellows program April 22-23.

Penn Researcher Receives National Clinical Research Award for Gene Therapy

A gene therapy study focused on finding a cure for a rare congenital blinding disease has been recognized as one of the ten most outstanding clinical research projects of the year by the Clinical Research Forum (CRF). The study, led by Jean Bennett, MD, Phd, F.M.

A Statement From Penn President Amy Gutmann On the Recent Events in Boston

As events continue to unfold in the Boston area, all of us at Penn extend our condolences to those in the MIT community over the death of one of their police officers. This was a tragic loss, and a reminder of the daily risks our police take in order to keep us safe. It is difficult to understand what drives people to commit the type of senseless acts that occurred this week in Boston. Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone in that community. Today we are all Bostonians, and proud of the spirit that marks this wonderful American city.

Bring daughters and sons to Penn for a fun-filled workday

Do you have a future engineer, police officer, or dentist at home? An aspiring IT specialist or Wall Street mogul? Or might your child need a bit of encouragement with schoolwork? Bring them to campus on April 25 so they may examine careers, enrich their minds, and have fun during Penn’s celebration of the nationwide Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.

A Penn Nursing Student Finds Her Niche for Helping

 Marissa DeCesaris hopes to make an impact on improving care for the mentally ill.  The Nursing junior, a Marlton, New Jersey native, became interested in the field after taking a psychology class in high school. Her interested deepened as a Penn freshman, while working with Nursing Professor Nancy Hanrahan researching mental health services and people with mental illness.

Q&A with Jonah Berger

It was Jonah Berger’s grandmother who first introduced him to Malcolm Gladwell. While he was a student at Stanford, Berger’s grandmother sent him a review of Gladwell’s book, "The Tipping Point.” Berger was intrigued, read the book, and loved it, but says he was nagged by questions about human behavior that drove outcomes. Were there really just a few select “connectors” or “mavens” who made products popular or ideas catch on—or were things actually more predictable, more scientific than that?

Rare finds at Katz Center

Situated on a bustling block in Old City, around the corner from the American Philosophical Society, sits a place dedicated to serious scholarship and quiet contemplation. Penn’s Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies is a space for high-level post-doctoral research in Jewish studies, drawing about 20 Fellows annually from institutions around the world. It is a place that affords scholars on sabbatical three things they desperately need: funding, time, and quiet.