Through
5/1
A complete list of stories featured on Penn Today.
Archive ・ Penn Current
The Philadelphia Phillies erased a quarter century of heartache for Philadelphia sports fans by winning the 2008 World Series, the city’s first major professional sports championship since 1983. Behind the arms of sole ace pitcher Cole Hamels and closer Brad Lidge, the Phillies defeated the Tampa Bay Rays four games to one.
Archive ・ Penn Current
Throughout the 2008-09 academic year, the Current has taken a look at the stories behind some of Penn’s most well-known, and most obscure, pieces of public art. The tour concludes with the statue, “Benjamin Franklin.” To view a slideshow of a year of Campus Art Walk, visit the Current on the web at: www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current.
Archive ・ Penn News
MEDIA ADVISORY & PHOTO OPPORTUNITYWHAT:
Archive ・ Penn News
PHILADELPHIA –- Female baboons who have strong social relationships with other females give birth to offspring who are much more likely to survive to adulthood than baboons reared by less social mothers, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of California, Los Angeles, and others. The results support a growing body of research on humans — especially women — indicating that strong social networks are crucially important to health and reduced stress.
Archive ・ Penn News
PHILADELPHIA –- Engineers from the University of Pennsylvania, Sandia National Laboratories and Rice University have demonstrated the formation of interconnected carbon nanostructures on graphene substrate in a simple assembly process that involves heating few-layer graphene sheets to sublimation using electric current that may eventually lead to a new paradigm for building integrated carbon-based devices.
Archive ・ Penn Current
Five Penn Law School students are spending the summer learning about another country’s legal system, customs and traditions.
Archive ・ Penn News
PHILADELPHIA -- Karen Glanz, a globally influential public-health scholar, has been named the ninth Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. The appointment was announced today by Penn President Amy Gutmann and Interim Provost Vincent Price.
Archive ・ Penn Current
Karen Glanz, a globally influential public-health scholar, has been named the ninth Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor. The appointment was announced on June 9 by Penn President Amy Gutmann and Interim Provost Vincent Price.
Archive ・ Penn News
WHAT:
Archive ・ Penn News
WHAT: The 2008 documentary film BLAST! follows a team of scientists, led by Mark Devlin, professor of astronomy and astrophysics, in their attempts to figure out how galaxies form by launching a revolutionary new telescope on a NASA high-altitude balloon.The film follows cosmologists from Sweden to Antarctica as they attempt — and fail and try again — to launch the high-altitude telescope above the earth’s atmosphere. DETAILS: