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Penn Engineers Develop More Effective MRI Contrast Agent for Cancer Detection
Many imaging technologies and their contrast agents — chemicals used during scans to help detect tumors and other problems — involve exposure to radiation or heavy metals, which present potential health risks to patients and limit the ways they can be applied. In an effort to mitigate these drawbacks, new research from University of Pennsylvania engineers shows a way to coat an iron-based contrast agent so that it only interacts with the acidic environment of tumors, making it safer, cheaper and more effective than existing alternatives.
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Penn’s Netter Center Hosting National Conference Dec. 15
PHILADELPHIA – The Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania will hold a joint conference of the Anchor Institutions Task Force and the Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools on Thursday, Dec .15.
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Some students call campus home for the holidays
Traditionally, when fall semester ends, Penn students leave campus and travel home for the holidays, sometimes with friends in tow. But a small cadre of students who live in College Houses choose to stay on campus during winter break.
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University Choral Society ends semester on a high note
A group of Penn students, faculty and staff will join members of the community on stage at Irvine Auditorium on Friday, Dec. 9. The occasion is the University Choral Society’s fall concert, and the performance will include Mozart’s Vespers, K. 339 and Vivaldi’s “Beatus vir,” widely considered to be two of the composers’ masterpieces.
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Penn researchers uncover evolution of bitter gene
The taste of broccoli has long been the bane of picky eaters everywhere (and at least one American president). But appreciating the vegetable is not just a matter of having a cultured palate; some people can easily taste a bitter compound in broccoli that others have difficulty detecting. Now, a team of Penn researchers has helped uncover the evolutionary history of one of the genes responsible for this trait.
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HR programs help resolve workplace conflicts
With a total regular workforce of more than 16,300 faculty and staff, and nearly 16,000 more in the Health System, Penn is a small city that requires an army of dedicated employees to keep the institution running smoothly. In the name of productivity, we all must get along, and for the most part we do. The majority of workplace issues at Penn are resolved in an informal manner. But when problems do fester, the University has programs designed to help bring about solutions.
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‘Bad Friday’ film chronicles Coral Gardens ‘incident’
Fridays in Jamaica aren’t always good. In 1963, only a year into independence, hundreds of Rastafarians at Coral Gardens, in the parish of St. James, were rounded up, jailed and tortured by the government of Jamaica. Officials accused the Rastas of setting fire to a gas station and killing two policemen. Rastafarian survivors of the confrontation, who deny the charges, commemorate the clash annually as the 1963 Coral Gardens “incident.”
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Middle-Class Elementary School Students Ask for Help More Often Than Their Working-Class Peers, Penn Study Finds
PHILADELPHIA -- Middle-class children ask their teachers for help more often and more assertively than working-class children and, in doing so, receive more support and assistance from teachers.
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Penn Receives Grant From Pew Charitable Trusts to Support Presidential Term Professorships
PHILADELPHIA – The Pew Charitable Trusts have given $2 million to support Presidential Term Professorships at the University of Pennsylvania. The announcement was made by Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price.
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Five Penn Researchers Named American Physical Society Fellows
PHILADELPHIA — The American Physical Society has elected five University of Pennsylvania faculty members to its 2011 APS Fellowship class. They are Mark Devlin, Alan “Charlie” Johnson, Joshua Klein, Feng Gai and Howard Hu. Devlin, Johnson and Klein are members of the School of Arts and Science’s Department of Physics and Astronomy.