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Penn Professor Part of Committee Investigating Defense Challenges for Nonproliferation Beyond Former U.S.S.R.
PHILADELPHIA -- Harvey Rubin, director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Strategic Threat Analysis and Response, is among seven internationally recognized experts who have compiled a National Academy of Sciences report on the biological threats and nonproliferation challenges faced by the U.S. Department of Defense.
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Penn Museum to Open "Painted Metaphors: Pottery and Politics of the Ancient Maya"
PHILADELPHIA –- A world-renowned collection of ancient Maya painted pottery, excavated by the University of Pennsylvania Museum nearly a century ago and reinterpreted in light of recent research, provides the centerpiece for “Painted Metaphors: Pottery and Politics of the Ancient Maya,” an exhibition opening at Penn Museum April 5 and running through December before beginning a multi-city national tour.
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Health Insurance as an Investment to Cover Young Adults
PHILADELPHIA -- Could offering a cash bonus for not consuming more than a threshold value of medical care hold the key to providing health insurance for 19-29 year olds, the so-called “young invincibles” who account for nearly half of all uninsured adults?
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Penn Hosts Conference on Virtual Worlds for Education: The Future of Technology Use in Learning
PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education is hosting a March 12-13 workshop, “Taxonomy of Virtual Worlds for Education,” designed to bring together teachers, students, researchers and technology providers to brainstorm the ideal virtual world software system for science, technology, engineering and math learning.
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“Thirteen Miles from Paradise: John Moore” Exhibition to Open at Penn’s Arthur Ross Gallery
PHILADELPHIA — “Thirteen Miles from Paradise: John Moore,” which opens at the University of Pennsylvania’s Arthur Ross Gallery on April 11, is an exhibit of 16 industrial landscape paintings that focus on sites from Ohio to Pennsylvania, including Coatesville, Pa., an industrial town that has been an ongoing subject for the artist since his first painting there in 1986.
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Penn Veterinary Researchers Identify a Critical Growth Factor That Stimulates Sperm Stem Cells to Thrive
PHILADELPHIA –- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine and Pennsylvania State University have identified for the first time a specific “niche factor” in the mouse testes called colony stimulating factor 1, Csf1, that has a direct effect on sperm stem cell self-renewal. Moreover, the study shows that the origin of this growth factor is the Leydig cell — located in the testes and stimulated by the pituitary gland to supply testosterone — that secretes Csf1 and enhances self-renewal of the stem cells.
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Biden at Penn
Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell, Pennsylvania Senators Robert P. Casey and Arlen Specter, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter and others visited Penn on Feb. 27 for the inaugural Middle Class Task Force Meeting.
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West Philly Tool Library
WHAT: The West Philly Tool Library is a lending library for home and garden tools. WHERE: The Library is located at 4620 Woodland Ave. It is open on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., and on Saturday mornings from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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New look for Penn Reading Project
By The Current Staff Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art The Penn Reading Project is going visual. The University has announced that the 2009-2010 PRP will focus not on a text, but rather Thomas Eakins’ painting, The Gross Clinic. This will be the first year that the PRP will use a painting as its subject.