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Chair of Penn Chemistry Department Is Named Editor of The Journal of Chemical Physics

PHILADELPHIA –- Marsha I. Lester, chair of the Chemistry Department at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named editor of The Journal of Chemical Physics, effective Jan. 1, 2009.

University of Pennsylvania Engineers Reveal What Makes Diamonds Slippery at the Nanoscale

PHILADELPHIA –- They call diamonds “ice,” and not just because they sparkle. Engineers and physicists have long studied diamond because even though the material is as hard as an ice ball to the head, diamond slips and slides with remarkably low friction, making it an ideal material or coating for seals, high performance tools and high-tech moving parts.

Nanotechnology Made Simple: The Penn Science Café Visits Washington, D.C.

WHO:Dr. Robert Carpick, University of Pennsylvania director of the region’s multi-institutional Nanotechnology Institute and associateprofessor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering andApplied Mechanics and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of PennsylvaniaWHAT:

Robert Ghrist Is Appointed a PIK Professor at Penn

PHILADELPHIA -- Robert Ghrist has been named the seventh Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Computerworld Ranks Penn's ISC No. 4 'Best Place to Work' Nationally, No. 1 Regionally

$50M gift to Penn Medicine

By The Current Staff A $50 million gift from philanthropists Jerome and Anne Fisher will support the construction of an eight-story biomedical research center dedicated to the growing field of translational medicine, which emphasizes converting discoveries in the lab into real-world medical therapies.

Lewis and Barton

Photo credit: University Archives Before Meriwether Lewis and William Clark embarked on their famous expedition to the Pacific, Lewis first traveled to Philadelphia to purchase clothing, weapons, cartographical equipment and goods to trade with the Native Americans.

ARG director settling in

In her professional career, Lynn Marsden-Atlass has worked as a museum educator, an associate director of a college museum, an art historian and a curator. In her new job as director of the Arthur Ross Gallery, Marsden-Atlass will use these years of experience and her keen eye to shape, plan and execute exhibits at Penn’s official art gallery.

Fresh evidence in stent debate

Photo credit: Candace diCarlo

Innovative Law School Teaching Tool Reaches Out to a Generation Raised on Video

PHILADELPHIA –- A University of Pennsylvania Law School professor is introducing a way of teaching mediation law using an interactive, multi-media approach, combining a text book with an instructional DVD.