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Penn Engineering professor named one of 'Brilliant 10'
Popular Science magazine has named Penn Engineering’s Katherine Kuchenbecker to its annual “Brilliant 10” list of the country’s top young scientists to watch.
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Institute of Medicine Elects Four New Members From Penn
Four professors from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have been elected members of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), one of the nation's highest honors in biomedicine. Three of the four new inductees are women.The new members bring Penn's total to 76, out of a total active membership of 1,649.Overall, the IOM named 65 new members this year and foreign associates.
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Institute of Medicine elects four new members from Penn
Four professors from Penn’s School of Medicine have been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), one of the nation’s highest honors in biomedicine. Established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences, IOM recognizes professional achievement in the health sciences and serves as a national resource for independent analysis and recommendations on issues related to medicine, biomedical sciences, and health.
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Charles O’Brien Receives Institute of Medicine's 2010 Sarnat Prize in Mental Health
The Institute of Medicine today awarded the 2010 Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health to two scientists — Charles P. O'Brien, MD, PhD, the Kenneth Appel Professor of Psychiatry and vice chair of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; and Eric J.
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Penn Team: Three-Way Control of Fetal Heart-Cell Proliferation Could Help Regenerate Cardiac Cells
Heart muscle cells do not normally replicate in adult tissue, but multiply with abandon during development. This is why the loss of heart muscle after a heart attack is so dire—you can’t grow enough new heart muscle to make up for the loss.
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Penn Creative Writing Lecturer Max Apple Wins Pew Fellowship
PHILADELPHIA –- Writer Max Apple, a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania and longtime member of Penn’s Kelly Writers House community, has won a 2010 Pew Fellowship in the Arts. He is among 12 Philadelphia-area artists awarded the $60,000 fellowships.
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Penn’s Center for Tech Transfer Wins Award for Industry/University/Government Research
PHILADELPHIA –- The University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Technology Transfer has been honored with a Deal of Distinction Award by the Licensing Executive Society (USA and Canada) Inc. The award was given for a collaborative research agreement forged earlier this year by Penn and pharmaceutical company Astra Zeneca that will make use of academic and private-industry resources to generate new Alzheimer’s disease drug candidates for clinical development.
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Get reacquainted with Penn perks at Employee Resource and Commuter Fair
For new employees, it’s a must-do and for those who have worked at Penn for some time, the Employee Resource and Commuter Fair is a great way to get reacquainted with everything the University has to offer. The fair will take place on Monday, Oct. 11, from noon to 2 p.m. at the Bodek Lounge in Houston Hall. Admission is free and all staff and faculty are invited to drop by.
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Playwright Moises Kaufman gives public talk as Penn's Platt House Theatre Fellow
As part of the 2010-2011 Platt House Theatre Fellows program, award-winning playwright and director Moises Kaufman— perhaps best known for writing “The Laramie Project,” about the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard, an openly gay college student who was beaten and left to die lashed to a fence in Laramie, Wyo.—will give a public talk at the
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Penn Institute for Urban Research Signs Partnership Agreement With UN-Habitat’s World Urban Campaign
Today, Dr. Eugénie Birch, co-director of the Penn Institute for Urban Research (IUR), signed a partnership agreement with UN-HABITAT, the UN agency that focuses on urban affairs. The agreement certified the role that the University of Pennsylvania and Penn IUR will play in the World Urban Campaign, which aims to unite the public and private sectors together with civil society, to elevate sustainable urbanization to the top of the agenda for governments around the world.