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T Cells ‘Hunt’ Parasites Like Animal Predators Seek Prey, a Penn Vet-Penn Physics Study Reveals
PHILADELPHIA — By pairing an intimate knowledge of immune-system function with a deep understanding of statistical physics, a cross-disciplinary team at the University of Pennsylvania has arrived at a surprising finding: T cells use a movement strategy to track down parasites that is similar to strategies that predators such as monkeys, sharks and blue-fin tuna use to hunt their prey.
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Inaugural Conference of Penn-based Work and Family Researchers Network Being Held in New York
WHO: Jerry Jacobs, president, Work and Family Researchers
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Penn’s New Media Manager Gets the Message Out
PHILADELPHIA —About three-quarters of Americans have Internet access in their homes, and most of them have Facebook accounts. With new social networks and content platforms popping into and out of existence at a dizzying pace, traversing this landscape is not about mastering technology as much as it learning how to adapt messages to increasingly diverse media.
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Pancreatic Cancer Can Run but Not Hide From the Immune System, According to Penn Study
A study published this week in Cancer Cell from the Perelman School of Medicine and the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania describes how pancreatic cancer cells produce a protein that attracts immune cells and tricks them into helping cancer cells grow. Blocking the protein may be also prove to be a new way to treat pancreatic cancer.
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Team of Penn Environmental Studies Master’s Students to Present at U.N.’s Rio+20 Conference June 15
PHILADELPHIA -- Three first-year graduate students in the University of Pennsylvania’s Master’s of Environmental Studies program are in Rio de Janeiro today in advance of the Rio+20 conference, where they will make a presentation on the role of higher educational institutions in sustainable development.
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'Artifacts, Massacres and Dinner Parties' Exhibit
Working primarily in graphite and creating large, detailed drawings, Julie Saecker Schneider of the School of Design has put together “Artifacts, Massacres, and Dinner Parties” at the Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery. The exhibit, which runs until June 22, features some of her work recontextualizing myths and the physical description of memory.
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Penn Welcomes African Visitors Through a State Department Program, Grassroots Democracy in the U.S.
The University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education hosted 15 leaders from more than nine African countries for a conversation on public deliberation in the United States and how it can apply to communities in Africa. The leaders came to learn more about U.S. organizations that increase civic engagement and citizen participation in democratic governance.
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Penn Researchers Organize Conference in Greece on Innate Immunity
PHILADELPHIA—Two University of Pennsylvania professors are serving as organizers of the Ninth International Conference on Innate Immunity, to be held June 23-28 in Ixia, Greece, on the island of Rhodes.
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Free Saturday Summer Concerts in University City
Saturday nights in University City are going to be more lively this summer with the sounds of eclectic local and international bands. The University City District’s 40th Street Summer Series of four concerts kicks off June 23 with the group Slavic Soul Party. The Brooklyn-based band plays an acoustic mash-up of Balkan and Gypsy sounds, weaving the gospel, techno, funk, dub, jazz and Latin influences of New York’s neighborhoods.
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For the Record: Penn ‘College Girl’ postcards
Pen-and-ink drawings by illustrator Charles Dana Gibson, originally satirizing the upper class, wound up having a profound influence on popular culture in the early 1900s, with both men and women aspiring to become a Gibson Girl or Gibson Man. The attractive and aloof Gibson Girl, with her impossibly tiny waist, upswept hair and air of serene self-confidence, became an iconic image women wanted to emulate. The Gibson Man was handsome and also self-assured. They were considered the Barbie and Ken dolls of that era, the ideal woman and man.