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NIR Diagnostics wins Wharton Business Plan Competition
NIR Diagnostics, cofounded by three Wharton MBA students and a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Medicine, recently won the 2008-2009 Wharton Business Plan Competition.
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Youth Chefs, Gardeners Host 2nd Annual Eats and Beats Dinner to Benefit the Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative
PHILADELPHIA -- High school students from the Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative’s youth development program, part of the Netter Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania, will host their annual benefit dinner, 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. Saturday, May 9, at the Calvary Center, 48th Street and Baltimore Avenue.
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Penn IUR Honors Leaders in Urban Affairs at the Fifth Annual Urban Leadership Forum
PHILADELPHIA – Three urban leaders have been honored by the Penn Institute for Urban Research at the 5th Annual Urban Leadership Forum, “Building Competitive and Sustainable Cities,” at the University of Pennsylvania. Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, former Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening and Bruce Katz of the Brookings Institution were singled out as exemplary leaders guiding cities toward a sustainable future.
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Out of Africa: Penn Geneticist Publishes Largest-Ever Study on African Genetics Revealing Origins, Migration
PHILADELPHIA –- African, American, and European researchers working in a 10-year collaboration have released the largest-ever study of African genetic data — more than 4 million genotypes — providing a library of new information on the continent which is thought to be the source of the oldest settlements of modern humans. The study was led by Sarah Tishkoff, the David and Lyn Silfen University Associate Professor of the University of Pennsylvania.
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U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter's Party Switch
Note for TV and radio: The University of Pennsylvania has a satellite uplink facility with live-shot capability and an ISDN line.Experts:Dr. Rogers Smith a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, is chair of the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism and researches American political thought.
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Four Penn scholars awarded Fellowships
Four members of the Penn community were recently honored with the distinguished Guggenheim Fellowship, an annual award given by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to accomplished men and women who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or extraordinary creative ability in the arts. At the 85th competition for the United States and Canada, the Foundation bestowed 180 Fellowships to artists, scientists and scholars, out of nearly 3,000 applicants.
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It Takes a Village
The Philadelphia International Children’s Festival turns 25 this year, and is celebrating its silver anniversary with five days of fun-filled theatrical performances for the entire family. Past Festival celebrations have included diverse performers from around the country and world, and this year’s festivities are no different.
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Evolution at the molecular level
Joshua Plotkin, the Martin Meyerson Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Penn, has been a fan of math since his youth. He majored in math as an undergraduate student at Harvard, studied it as a visiting student at Oxford University and also planned to continue studying it in graduate school. But during the last semester of his senior year, Plotkin met a world-renowned scientist who would forever alter his life: Charles Darwin. Not the real Charles Darwin (because he died in 1882) but rather the Darwinian ideas discussed in a course on evolution.
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Network structure affects outcome
It’s thought that every person in the United States is connected by no more than six degrees of separation. Proving it, though, is another matter. For the most part, computer scientists, mathematicians, sociologists and other researchers have worked independently to map the vast economic, political and social networks that help us decide when to buy or sell a car, who to vote for, or even which foods we like and dislike. But an emerging field of research called “network science” is bringing all of these disciplines togther.
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Is that a fake reptile head in the BioPond?
Dear Benny: I heard a rumor that the current caretaker of the BioPond is trying to remove the animals from the garden. Also, I saw a fake alligator head floating in the pond. Is it meant to scare off wildlife? Can you answer this for me?—BioPond’s Best Friend Forever Dear BioPond BFF, Tracy Byford, who has managed the James G. Kaskey Memorial Garden, or BioPond, for more than two decades, says the plastic alligator head was placed in the Garden in an attempt to prevent ducks from destroying the pond’s plant life.