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Treatment for addiction-- in its many forms
World-renowned addiction expert Charles O’Brien, of Penn’s Charles O’Brien Center for Addiction Treatment, says addiction is a “physical change in the brain” that causes “compulsive drug-seeking behavior.”
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Q&A: Adrian Raine
Photo credit:Candace diCarlo People from all across the political spectrum have their problems with Adrian Raine.
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ATLAS to recreate the Big Bang
Penn researchers have played a key role in the development of the ATLAS particle collider in Switzerland. ATLAS will essentially recreate the Big Bang, millions of times each second. Everything about the ATLAS experiment is big. Everything.
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Penn Launches New Global Business/Environmental Initiative With April 14-16 Conference
PHILADELPHIA –- The University of Pennsylvania has joined forces with leaders from U.S. businesses, government and non-governmental organizations to launch a new initiative on business and the environment.The Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership, led by Penn’s Wharton School, will address the environmental issues facing businesses today from academic and policy-oriented perspectives. This cross-disciplinary endeavor also includes faculty from Penn’s schools of Arts and Sciences, Design, Engineering and Applied Science, Law and Medicine.
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Philadelphia Antiques Show
WHAT: The Philadelphia Antiques Show is widely considered to be the country’s premier antiques and decorative arts show, with a loan exhibit and more than 50 dealers and galleries on hand to sell furniture, folk and fine art, ceramics, porcelain, silver and textiles.
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Student Spotlight: David Helfenbein
Mark Stehle YOUTH VOTE: Since his early teens, the Political Science/Communications
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Staff Q&A: Lorri Schieri
Photo credit: Candace diCarlo Running the administrative arm of an institute that encompasses 400 faculty, students, staff and post-docs, from nine schools at Penn, and involves researchers from three additional institutions, is a big job. And it’s Lorri Schieri’s.
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Two Students From Penn Win Truman Scholarships
PHILADELPHIA –- A pair of University of Pennsylvania juniors are among 65 students from 55 U.S. colleges and universities elected as 2008 Truman Scholars by 17 independent selection panels on the basis of leadership potential, intellectual ability and likelihood of “making a difference.”
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Penn Engineering Receives Largest Research Grant in School History to Lead Robotics Consortium
PHILADELPHIA –- The University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science has received the largest single award in the School’s 156-year history to help create the fundamental networks and technologies that will put unmanned machines on the front lines of battle. The award is the MAST CTA, the Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology Collaborative Technology Alliance, and will incorporate more than $22 million in funding during 10 years from the Army Research Laboratory.
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“Responses to the Urban Crisis”: Panel Discussion at Penn
WHAT:”Responses to the Urban Crisis: Riots, Disasters, Urban Renewal and Social Change,” a panel discussion about what individuals, organizations and communities can do in response to social upheaval and the implications for social change.WHO: