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First Step Towards Electronic DNA Sequencing: Translocation Through Graphene Nanopores

PHILADELPHIA –- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a new, carbon-based nanoscale platform to electrically detect single DNA molecules. Using electric fields, the tiny DNA strands are pushed through nanoscale-sized, atomically thin pores in a graphene nanopore platform that ultimately may be important for fast electronic sequencing of the four chemical bases of DNA based on their unique electrical signature.

Law School breaks ground for new building

Donor Perry Golkin (left) joins Law School Dean Michael Fitts at the groundbreaking of the school's new building. With the plunge of a shovel, Penn Law School Dean Michael Fitts led the groundbreaking ceremony for construction of Golkin Hall on July 22, a new structure that will replace Pepper Hall.

Abramson Cancer Center now offers acupuncture

To help cancer patients better cope with the side effects of chemotherapy, radiation and other treatments, and to help cancer survivors bounce back faster, the Abramson Cancer Center is offering acupuncture as a supplement to conventional medical care.

Penn GSE Prof Earns 2010 Ozell Sutton Medallion of Justice for Impact on Historically Black Colleges

Art meets science at Burrison Gallery

“Ganglion" by Greg Dunn At the Burrison Gallery, located inside the University Club at the Inn at Penn, the artwork of graduate student Greg Dunn couples art with science in an eye-catching exhibit.

Last chance to join the locker lottery at the Pottruck Center

The Pottruck Center is 19,000 square feet of everything your physically-fit heart desires: free weights, elliptical machines, treadmills and exercise bikes, dance and martial arts studios, an Olympic-size pool, basketball courts, a Pilates studio, a climbing wall, you name it.

Keep Fido and Fluffy healthy during the summer with tips from Penn Vet

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the first six months of 2010 have been the warmest ever recorded around the globe, and the dog days of August haven’t even arrived yet. Most of us know that children and the elderly are especially susceptible to heat-related ailments, but pets are vulnerable, too.

Collaboration Leads to Simpler Method for Building Varieties of Nanocrystal Superlattices

PHILADELPHIA –- Collaboration by chemists, physicists and materials scientists at the University of Pennsylvania has created a simple and inexpensive method to rapidly grow centimeter-scale membranes of binary nanocrystal superlattices, or BNSLs, by crystallizing a mixture of nanocrystals on a liquid surface.

Penn Is Among Top Medium-Sized Universities Contributing Graduates to Teach For America

PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania ranks fourth in medium-sized colleges and universities in the number of 2010 graduates who are joining Teach For America. The 43 recent Penn graduates are committing the next two years to teach in underserved urban and rural public schools and will begin teaching in schools across the country in the fall. Teach for America recruited the students from all academic majors and backgrounds who demonstrated outstanding achievement, perseverance and leadership. 

Professors Robert Hornik, Joseph Turow Named ICA Fellows

Robert Hornik, Ph.D., the Wilbur Schramm Professor of Communication and Director of the Center of Excellence in Cancer Communication Research; and Joseph Turow, Ph.D., the Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication, became Fellows of the International Communication Association (ICA). Their election as ICA Fellows took place during the I