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The Penn Science Café Presents: \"Recall! Lifting the Pet Food Fog\"
WHO: Kathryn E. Michel, chief, Section of Medicine School of Veterinary Medicine, University of PennsylvaniaWHAT: The Penn Science Caf lecture series, free and open to the public, takes science out of the laboratory and treats it to a night on the town. The Caf is your chance to ask leading experts your questions about science.WHERE: The MarBar, 40th and Walnut streets, PhiladelphiaWHEN: Tuesday, May 15, 6 p.m.Doors open at 5:30 p.m.Menu items are available for purchase.
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Penn Vet Announces World Leadership and Student Inspiration Awards
PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine has launched the first veterinary medicine awards of its kind designed to recognize innovation, creativity and leadership in the veterinary profession anywhere in the world. The Penn Vet World Leadership in Animal Health Award will be presented annually to a veterinarian who has dramatically changed the practice and image of the profession and substantially influenced the lives and careers of others. The award will provide $100,000 in unrestricted funding.
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Incivility in American Politics: Is the U.S. at Risk for Disaster in Political Discourse? Are Voters Fed Up?
WASHINGTON - Elected officials and university scholars will examine incivility in politics and the increasing polarization of policy debate at the Penn Conference on Civility and American Politics April 30 on Capitol Hill. Conference participants will discuss whether, in a time of increasingly rancorous political discourse, the United States is reaching a tipping point that makes incivility a bad political strategy and a worse governance strategy and whether this has implications for the 2008 presidential election.
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Great Expectations Deliberation Days Held May 2-6
WHO: Philadelphia City Council candidatesWHAT: Great Expectations, a year-long project to connect Philadelphia's citizens' hopes and ideas for their city to the political process, is a partnership between the Philadelphia Inquirer and the University of Pennsylvania, with funding from the Lenfest and Knight foundations.WHERE&WHEN:May 2-6, 2007; various locations in each of the 10 City Council districts.
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Penn Historian Discovers Evidence Documenting First European Voyage Up the Delaware
PHILADELPHIA - A University of Pennsylvania scholar has pinpointed 1616 as the year of the first European voyage up the Delaware River.Jaap Jacobs, a senior fellow at Penn's McNeil Center for Early American Studies, detailed his findings in a paper, "Truffle Hunting with an Iron Hog: The First Dutch Voyage up the Delaware River," presented to the McNeil Center Seminar Series on April 20.
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Penn Physicists Develop Force Law for Granular Impacts: Sand, Other Granular Matter's Behavior Is Better Defined
PHILADELPHIA -- Sand. A single grain is tiny, but solid, and shares the physical properties of other solid matter. But pack or transport millions of grains together - as modern society does with coffee grounds, flour and industrial chemicals - and granular materials act differently, baffling engineers. They take the shape of their containers and flow freely, like liquids. In certain circumstances, they exert pressure like a gas. The basic lack of behavioral knowledge contributes to wasted resources and energy, as well as erosion and other natural phenomena.
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MTV-U Episode Filmed at Penn Features Malcolm Gladwell and Kenna as "Stand In" Professors
PHILADELPHIA -- Students in University of Pennsylvania Professor David Grazian's "Sociology of Media and Popular Culture" class were surprised and delighted when a guest lecture they'd been told in advance was not to be missed turned out to be a taping of an episode of the MTV-U series "Stand In."
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University of Pennsylvania Adopts Windows Live @ edu to Deliver Communications Platform to Students
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania has partnered with Microsoft to enhance the communications platform it offers to many of its students. Beginning in the fall semester, students in the School of Arts and Sciences and the Wharton School will have the option of using a customized version of Windows Live called Penn Live to access e-mail and a full suite of online communications services.
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Penn Professor Awarded 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship
PHILADELPHIA -- Sanjeev Khanna, professor of computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania, has been honored with a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship. Khanna works in theoretical computer science at the interface of algorithms and computational complexity. The fellowship will fund his continued research to identify the polynomial-time approximability of fundamental problems in combinatorial optimization.
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President Amy Gutmann offers condolences to the Virginia Tech community
The University of Pennsylvania extends its heartfelt condolences to the Virginia Tech campus community. The thoughts and prayers of Penn's students, faculty, and staff are with the victims and families affected by Monday's horrifying and tragic events.In the wake of campus violence elsewhere, it is natural to ask questions about safety here at Penn.