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University of Pennsylvania Launches New D.S.W. Program
PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy and Practice will launch a new doctoral-level education program in social work, which will offer the D.S.W. to students alongside the Ph.D. degree.
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Two University of Pennsylvania Schools Partner in Program for Organizational Learning Leaders
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania will offer a graduate degree program for learning leaders through a partnership between Penn's Wharton School and Graduate School of Education. The Executive Program in Work-Based Learning Leadership will provide a formalized education in business, leadership, technology and strategy within the context of work-related learning. The goal is to enable the learning leader, often called the chief learning officer or head of talent development, to function at the same strategic level as other senior executives.
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University of Pennsylvania to Host National Campus Safety Awareness Month Kick-Off Aug. 30
WHAT: Kick-off of National Campus Safety Awareness Month WHO: Officials from the University of Pennsylvania will join with representatives from Security on Campus Inc. to launch the month-long observance. Security on Campus is a national organization dedicated to making colleges and universities safer.During the event, Security on Campus co-founder Connie Clery will speak about the challenges college students face, including acquaintance rape, binge drinking, residence-hall fires and hazing.
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University of Pennsylvania Researchers: Adult Stem Cells Are Touchy-Feely, Need Environmental Clues for Change
PHILADELPHIA -- A certain type of adult stem cell can turn into bone, muscle, neurons or other types of tissue depending on the feel of their physical environment, according to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. The researchers discovered that mesenchymal stem cells, which regularly reside in the bone marrow as part of the bodys natural regenerative mechanism, depend on physical clues from their local environment in order to transform into different types of tissue.
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University of Pennsylvania Researchers Identify Gatekeeper Involved in Chronic Inflammatory Diseases
PHILADELPHIA -- The road to many an inflammatory disease is guarded by a cytokine messenger protein called interleukin-27, according to researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. Chronic inflammation results when the immune system becomes over stimulated and begins attacking healthy tissue in excess. The Penn researchers found that IL-27 inhibits the immune system cells that are responsible for an array of inflammatory-related diseases, including encephalitis, arthritis, Crohns disease, lupus and even sepsis.
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University of Pennsylvania Student Creates Electric Tweezers; Now Everyone Can Have a Desktop Lab
PHILADELPHIA -- The ability to sort cells or manipulate microscopic particles could soon be in the hands of small laboratories, high schools and amateur scientists, thanks to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science. They have created a device, called "electric tweezers," which can manipulate and move almost any object seen on a simple microscope slide.
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Expert Comment on Hurricane Katrina -- One Year Later
Eugenie Birch, professor and chair of city and regional planning at the University of Pennsylvania, is co-director of the Penn Institute for Urban Research and co-editor of the book "Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina." In this book, Birch discusses what can be learned from past disasters in planning the Gulf Coast's return to economic viability."While the urge to return to normalcy after a catastrophe is a universal theme in history, the San Francisco [1906 earthquake] story shows that risky rebuilding has important effects."
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University of Pennsylvania Reading Project Encourages Freshmen to Explore Technology Ideas in "Free Culture"
PHILADELPHIA -- The text for this year's Penn Reading Project at the University of Pennsylvania is "Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity" by Lawrence Lessig. Groups of first-year students and faculty leaders will meet to discuss the book as part of New Student Orientation at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 3.
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University of Pennsylvania's FactCheck.org Named "One of 25 Sites We Can't Live Without"
PHILADELPHIA-- FactCheck.org, the nonpartisan website devoted to reducing the level of confusion and deception in U.S. politics, has been named by Time.com as one of "25 Sites We Cant Live Without." http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1222769,00.html FactCheck, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, joins Google, Amazon, eBay, ESPN, Wikipedia and NPR on Time.com's list of "must-click" sites.
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University of Pennsylvania Computer Scientists Puts Social Network Theory to the Test
PHILADELPHIA - Ever since 1969, when psychologists Jeffery Travers and Stanley Milgram first explained that everyone was separated by only six connections from anyone else, researchers have created theoretical models of the networks that societies create. Now, computer scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science have devised an ingenious experiment to put such theories to the test.