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Gutmann joins forces with FBI
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Penn to host first 'NanoDay'
Small technology is big this October. It’s been designated as Nano Month, and a host of activities has been designed to get the Penn community and Philadelphia audiences excited about, well, the small stuff. That is, the small stuff known as nanotechnology—technological advances on a nanoscale (or molecular level) that have the potential to change the way in which we do business, how we care for people in the medical fields and how we use technology.
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For The Record: Animal Locomotion
Columns Ask Benny: Is our William Pepper that William Pepper? Out and About: A music club to love
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Remaking Penn Museum
Q&A/Penn Museum’s new director wants the world—and Penn—to flock to his galleries, not just because of the mummies, but because the museum is a hot bed of brand new ideas in archaeology and anthropology.
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At Work With...Brooke Duffy
WHO SHE IS: Assistant Director, Donor Relations, School of Arts and Sciences. YEARS AT PENN: 2 1/2 WHAT SHE DOES: Duffy’s area of responsibility is stewardship. Specifically, she writes to donors to update them on what has been done with their financial gift. That includes reporting on scholarships and fellowships, as well as special institutes and projects, such as the recent renovation of Bennett Hall.
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The Penn Science Café Presents: \"It's A Smaller World After All: The Emerging Nanotechnology Age\"
WHAT: The Penn Science Cafe, the lecture series that pulls science out of the lab and takes it out for a night on the town. It is chance to ask your questions directly to leading scientific experts. WHO: A. T. "Charlie" Johnson, professor in Penn's Department of Physics and Astronomy WHERE: The MarBar 40th and Walnut streets, PhiladelphiaWHEN: 6 p.m., Monday, Oct. 24 Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
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Presto: It's a Semiconductor; Penn Researchers Transform the Properties of Matter With Tunable Quantum Dots
PHILADELPHIA -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania may not have turned lead into gold as alchemists once sought to do, but they did turn lead and selenium nanocrystals into solids with remarkable physical properties. In the October 5 edition of Physical Review Letters, online now, physicists Hugo E. Romero and Marija Drndic describe how they developed am artificial solid that can be transformed from an insulator to a semiconductor.
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Vernon and Shirley Hill Pledge $10 Million to Penn's School of Veterinary Medicine
PHILADELPHIA -- Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania, and Alan Kelly, dean of Penn School of Veterinary Medicine, have announced a $10 million gift from Vernon and Shirley Hill to the School of Veterinary Medicine.The gift will be used towards the completion of a new teaching and research center, currently under construction, to be called The Vernon and Shirley Hill Pavilion. The building will open in the fall of 2006 and is the first new Penn Veterinary Medicine building in Philadelphia in 25 years.
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A Beam of Light on a Path of Gold to a Miniaturized World: Penn Theorists to Create Optical Circuit Elements
PHILADELPHIA -- Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have theorized a means of shrinking electronics so they could be run using light instead of electricity. In the search to create faster, smaller and more energy-efficient electronics, researchers have looked elsewhere in the electromagnetic spectrum, which ranges from the low-frequency energy used in everyday electronics to the high-frequency energy of gamma rays, to pass the limits of conventional technology.
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Penn President Available to Comment on the Solomon Amendment and Military Recruiting on Campus
Penn President Available to Comment on the Solomon Amendment and Military Recruiting on CampusSept. 27, 2005Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania, is available to comment on the decade-old Solomon Amendment, which now requires private universities to offer to military recruiters access identical to that offered to other recruiters or risk losing federal funds.