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Stem Cell Nuclei Are Soft 'Hard Drives,' Penn Study Finds
PHILADELPHIA- Biophysicists at the University of Pennsylvania have discovered that the nuclei of human stem cells are particularly soft and flexible, rather than hard, making it easier for stem cells to migrate through the body and to adopt different shapes, but ultimately to put human genes in the correct nuclear "sector" for proper access and expression.
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Landmark Modeling Study at Penn Reveals How Ferroelectric Computer Memory Works
PHILADELPHIA -- A collaboration of University of Pennsylvania chemists and engineers has performed multi-scale modeling of ferroelectric domain walls and provided a new theory of behavior for domain-wall motion, the "sliding wall" that separates ferroelectric domains and makes high-density ferroelectric RAM (FeRAM) possible.
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Penn Professor Named to Leadership Role in New Neuroscience and Law Project
PHILADELPHIA - Stephen Morse, a University of Pennsylvania law and psychiatry professor, is among scientists, legal scholars, jurists and philosophers who will help integrate new developments in neuroscience into the U.S. legal system.
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Van Pelt Library
Photo credit: University Archives It’s almost impossible to imagine Penn, or at least College Green, without the Van Pelt Library.
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Student Spotlight: Crystal Lucas
Mark Stehle PROVIDING RELIEF: This past summer, Lucas, a graduate student in the School of Social Policy and Practice, joined recent Penn grads Connie Hoe and Namhee Yun in Hancock County, Mississippi—the site of some of the most devastating damage from Hurricane Katrina. Lucas was on hand as part of the Feldman Initiative to tend to the mental and emotional health of residents recovering from the storm and flood.
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Street smart
Photo credit: Candace diCarlo It’s not every day, Anne Papageorge knows, that one is given the opportunity to change of the face of an entire city. But Papageorge has been fortunate to do just that for much of the past two decades.
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Ensemble
Ko Im WHAT: A medley of instruments guest-curated by Christian Marclay, a leading figure in performance, visual art and avant garde music. Hear a delightful cacophony of wind chimes, then enjoy a quiet reprise of “Moonlight Sonata” from a sixteen 18-note Reuge music box mechanism across the room.
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A call for change
While stories of voter fraud, suppression and malfeasance abounded on the election days in 2004 and 2006, the biggest problems on at the polls actually had to do with something far more routine—poor administration.
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Students tackle Curating 101
When you pass by the Fresh Grocer building at 40th and Walnut later this month (at right) and Fisher-Bennett Hall next month, be sure to look up.
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Study links obesity, absenteeism
Andrew Geier says his new study shows that body-mass index (BMI) is a more accurate predictor of school absenteeism than any other single factor. Photo credit: Candace diCarlo Childhood obesity may be more than just a health risk. It may also, apparently, be keeping kids out of school.