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Nominate a co-worker for the Models of Excellence Awards
Each year, the Models of Excellence Awards recognize the accomplishments and commitment of Penn staff members who have demonstrated outstanding leadership, creativity and innovation in their daily work.
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Become a mentor to a West Philadelphia High School student
A new Penn mentoring program with West Philadelphia High School offers University faculty and staff the opportunity to advise and counsel local students.
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Penn Science Café explores one biomolecule at a time
Everyone from hardcore material scientists to "Jersey Shore" celebrities benefit from nanotechnology, the next great field of engineering expected to change everything from drug delivery to the way we apply sunscreen. But actually understanding this world-changing field of science is a bit more difficult than it appears, since scientists themselves have only begun to scratch the surface of its possibilities.
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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.
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First Clinical Trial Exploring Effects of a New, Immune System-Based Agent in Advanced Melanoma
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Immunocore Limited, Oxford, UK, today announced that a targeted agent that may have a role in treating advanced metastatic melanoma in the future has received Investigational New Drug (IND) approval and is opening enrollment for clinical trials in the UK and USA.Click here to view the full release.
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Playwright Moises Kaufman speaks at Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Ei-ichi Negishi, who earned his doctorate in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1963, is one of three scientists sharing this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis. Negishi is the H. C. Brown Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University, grew up in Japan and received his bachelor's degree in 1958 from the University of Tokyo before coming to Penn in 1960.
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Penn Study: Following Traumatic Event, Early Intervention Reduces Children's PTSD Odds by 73 Percent
After experiencing a potentially traumatic event – a car accident, a physical or sexual assault, a sports injury, witnessing violence – as many as 1 in 5 children will develop Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
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Wharton School Announces Partnership With Sovereign Bank, Santander Universities
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce the establishment of a Partnership for Globalization with Sovereign Bank, part of Banco Santander. The Partnership will support two initiatives at the Wharton School and the Lauder Institute, enhancing teaching and research on the economic, technological, political and social aspects of globalization and the teaching of business languages.
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National Institutes of Health Honors Two Penn Researchers With 2010 New Innovator Awards
PHILADELPHIA –- University of Pennsylvania researchers Ritesh Agarwal and Patrick Seale have been honored with the New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health, providing each with $1.5 million to support their research for five years.
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World Is Full of Darkness, Reflected in the Physiology of the Human Retina, Penn Researchers Say
PHILADELPHIA –- Physicists and neuroscientists from the University of Pennsylvania have linked the cell structure of the retina to the light and dark contrasts of the natural world, demonstrating the likelihood that the neural pathways humans use for seeing are adapted to best capture the world around us.