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Douglas M. Yates, technical director of the Penn Regional Nanotechnology Center, studies samples using a state-of-the-art field emission transmission electron microscope. Photo credit: Mark Stehle

Public Invited to Penn Seminar on the State of Muslim Radicalization in Europe

WHAT:Dr. Peter Neumann of King’s College London will discuss the European Commission-funded study, “Recruitment and Mobilization for the Islamist Militant Movement in Europe.” This study, and others, will form the basis for EU policy making in preventing violent radicalization. Based on secondary research as well as extensive fieldwork in Britain, France and Spain, the report provides the most comprehensive picture of the methods through which Islamist militants in Europe mobilize supporters and find new recruits. WHO:

Penn Law to Hold Visual Legal Advocacy Roundtable

WHO:Regina Austin, University of Pennsylvania Law professor Michael Wong, Penn Law student Gretchen Berland, Yale Medical School professor Carol Jacobsen, University of Michigan professor Margie Smith, Think Tank FilmsWHAT: “Building Video Bridges”WHEN: Oct. 17, 2008 WHERE:

Penn to Host Fiscal Wake-Up Tour

Penn Students Gather to Watch McCain and Obama Debate

WHO: University of Pennsylvania students WHAT: “Debate Watch and Dessert”WHEN: Tues., Oct. 7, 2008 9-11 p.m.WHERE: Mayer Hall 3817 Spruce St.Penn students will gather for dessert and to watch John McCain and Barak Obama debate on television. After the debate, advisors in Penn’s Communications Within the Curriculum program will facilitate a discussion of the debate to allow students to share their reactions and talk about what they’ve learned.

The Penn Science Café Presents: Race and the Presidential Election

WHO:Dr. Rogers Smith, professor of political science and chair of the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism, will discuss the 2008 presidential election and the role race plays in American politics.WHAT: The Penn Science Café lecture series is free and open to the public. WHERE:

Morris Arboretum Breaking Ground Friday for Horticulture Center, Penn's First Platinum-Level LEED-Certified Building

Penn pours money into neuroscience

By The Current Staff . Penn has neuroscience on the brain. A new $50 million contribution from the Health System will allow the University to endow five new Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) professorships in neuroscience and support interdisciplinary neuroscience initiatives involving the School of Medicine and other schools across the University.

Staff Q&A/Kenric Tsethlikai

Photo credit: Mark Stehle After completing his Ph.D. in French at Stanford University, Kenric Tsethlikai accepted a position with Credit Suisse in Switzerland.

Prof examines history of heroin trade

About half of all of America’s heroin users in the 20th century were concentrated in one place—New York City. And when one factored in the big cities of Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Detroit, nearly all of the nation’s users could be accounted for.