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Penn Research Helps Improve Nano-manufacturing with Nanometer-scale Diamond Tip
PHILADELPHIA — One of the most promising innovations of nanotechnology has been the ability to perform rapid nanofabrication using nanometer-scale tips. Heating such tips can dramatically increase fabrication speeds, but high speed and high temperature have been known to blunt their atomically sharp points.
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College Day ’12 for Lea Students at Penn
WHAT: College Day 2012, when students from Lea Elementary School will become honorary college students at the University of Pennsylvania. The goal is to excite students about the college experience, so they will be motivated to work hard in middle and high school and strive for a college education. WHEN: 9:30 a.m. – 3:45 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1
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Penn “Thinking With the Past” Lectures Move to Philadelphia Central Library
PHILADELPHIA –- The University of Pennsylvania “Thinking With the Past” lecture series has returned with a fresh lineup of speakers in a new home, the Parkway Central Library at 1901 Vine St.
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A Day in the Life of Penn, Fall 2012
Just before sunrise on Nov. 14, the day’s first baby was born at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Around midnight, a Penn Law student closed the day studying, surrounded by books. In between, morning commuters streamed across the South Street Bridge in cars and on bikes, fourth-year Penn Vet students wheeled a canine patient out of the surgery suite, and Penn Jazz rehearsed in Houston Hall—all against a background of a crisp, picture-perfect fall day.
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Penn-Temple Team Discovers What Keeps a Cell's Energy Source Going
PHILADELPHIA — Most healthy cells rely on a complicated process to produce the fuel ATP. Knowing how ATP is produced by the cell’s energy storehouse – the mitochondria -- is important for understanding a cell’s normal state, as well as what happens when things go wrong, for example in cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurodegeneration, and many rare disorders of the mitochondria.
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Penn Education Researcher Explains How to Prepare Today’s Students for Tomorrow’s Jobs
What’s needed to ensure a solid future for the American worker? According to one University of Pennsylvania researcher, it’s a matter of education and training. While not everyone is destined to attend college, it’s up to policymakers, employers and educators to team up to make sure that today’s students are prepared to meet the needs of tomorrow’s employers.
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Penn Researchers Make Flexible, Low-voltage Circuits Using Nanocrystals
PHILADELPHIA — Electronic circuits are typically integrated in rigid silicon wafers, but flexibility opens up a wide range of applications. In a world where electronics are becoming more pervasive, flexibility is a highly desirable trait, but finding materials with the right mix of performance and manufacturing cost remains a challenge.
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Dorothy Roberts to Give Keynote Address for Field Center’s Winter Symposium at Penn
PHILADELPHIA – Dorothy Roberts will deliver the keynote speech on “The Racial Geography of Child Welfare” at the Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Research Winter 2012 Community Symposium at the University of Pennsylvania. Roberts, a Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with appointments in law and sociology, will speak at 8:30 a.m., Wednesday, Nov.
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Penn Medicine Research: Pathway Identified in Human Lymphoma Points Way to New Blood Cancer Treatments
PHILADELPHIA — A pathway called the “Unfolded Protein Response,” or UPR, a cell’s way of responding to unfolded and misfolded proteins, helps tumor cells escape programmed cell death during the development of lymphoma.
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Rita Hodges of Penn’s Netter Center Coauthors Book on Future of University-Community Relationships
PHILADELPHIA – A new book, The Road Half Traveled: University Engagement at a Crossroads, provides a forward-thinking perspective on the future of university-community partnerships. Coauthored by Rita Axelroth Hodges, assistant director at the University of Pennsylvania’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships, the book reviews the role universities have played as anchor institutions in their communities and mulls the new directions those relationships might take.