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Honey, we’re out of control
TELEVISION/A new TV series hosted by a Penn prof helps families get back on track with diet, lifestyle. What does it take to get Americans to change their children’s diets? A new TV show hosted by a School of Medicine professor is using cutting edge technology to show parents what their chubby young kids will look like at age 40 if they continue to eat junk food and favor TV and video games over exercise. The results aren’t pretty.
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STAFF Q&A:Anne Stamer
STAFF Q&A/Anne Stamer has helped turn Weiss Tech House into Penn’s ‘hub’ for technology. “Our mission is to help excite and invigorate students around technology.” During the early days of the Weiss Tech House, Director Anne Stamer, Faculty Director Karl Ulrich and about 20 students operated out of a cubicle in Huntsman Hall. But these days, things have certainly changed for the campus technology and innovation hub.
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Plight of Poor, Black Urban Male Focus of Two-Day Conference at Penn
PHILADELPHIA-- Scholars from across the country plan to put the social and economic situation of low-income black males in the national spotlight when they gather at the University of Pennsylvania for an April 20-21 conference, "Poor, Young, Black and Male: A Cause for National Action.""Typically residing in areas of concentrated urban poverty, too many young black men are trapped in a horrific cycle of active discrimination, unemployment, crime, violence, prison and early death," Penn Sociology Professor Elijah Anderson, one of the conference organizers, said.
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Annenberg School at Penn Receives $2.5 Million From Annenberg Foundation to Honor George Gerbner
PHILADELPHIA-- The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania will receive a $2.5 million gift from the Annenberg Foundation in memory of former Annenberg School Dean George Gerbner. "The permanent endowment will establish and support the George Gerbner post-doctoral fellowship program at ASC so that George Gerbner's name will continue to be writ large at Penn," Penn President Amy Gutmann said. "What a beautiful way to honor a great life devoted so faithfully to the pursuit of scholarly perfection in communication studies."
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MuscleMorph Takes the Grand Prize at 2nd Annual PennVention CompetitionArtificial Muscle
PHILADELPHIA -- A revolutionary motor that is more power-efficient, lightweight and cost-effective than any other actuator currently used in prosthetics or robotics swept several awards categories at the 2nd Annual PennVention competition at the University of Pennsylvania Weiss Tech House on April 7.PennVention helps students develop innovative technologies and provides them with tools to launch those products to market. This year winners will revolutionize the way we watch television, think about robotic movement, do our laundry, paint our houses and even play golf.
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Scientists Precisely Measure Subatomic Particle as It Flips Between Matter and Antimatter 3 Trillion Times per Second
PHILADELPHIA Scientists at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have announced the precision measurement of extremely rapid transitions between matter and antimatter. The observations were made at the Collider Detector at Fermilab, representing a massive collaborative effort involving 700 researchers from 61 institutions, including the University of Pennsylvania.
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Nano-particles Effective in Killing Cancer with One-Two Punch of Chemotherapeutics
PHILADELPHIA -- Research studies, based at the University of Pennsylvania, demonstrate that biodegradable nano-particles containing two potent cancer-fighting drugs are effective in killing human breast tumors. The unique properties of the hollow shell nano-particles, known as polymersomes, allow them to deliver two distinct drugs, paclitaxel, the leading cancer drug known by brand names such as Taxol, and doxorubicin directly to tumors implanted in mice.
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A Jekyll and Hyde of Cytokines: IL-25 Both Promotes and Limits Inflammatory Diseases
The same signal responsible for promoting the type of immune responses that cause asthma and allergy can also limit the type of inflammation associated with debilitating diseases like inflammatory bowel disease, arthritis and multiple sclerosis, according to researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. The researchers discovered how IL-25, a signaling protein known as a cytokine, both prevents destructive inflammation and promotes immune responses associated with asthma and allergic responses.
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Penn Launching Bicycle-borne, Medically Equipped Student Emergency Response Team Thursday
WHAT: MERT is a student-developed, student-operated emergency medical response team at the University of Pennsylvania that has been trained to respond to medical emergencies on campus.The team members will be dispatched by the Division of Public Safety's PennComm Center and will respond via bicycles equipped with oxygen, defibrillators and other emergency medical supplies.