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Out & About: Saturdays at the stadium
It’s late September, summer is gone and football season is back. In football-crazy college towns like Ann Arbor, Knoxville, Columbus and State College, autumn’s return brings tailgaters as far as the eye can see on Saturday mornings and crowds of more than 100,000 packing stadiums later in the day. It’s a weekly spectacle of fandom that surpasses even what you’ll find at America’s NFL stadiums.
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Movable Feast: Falafel
By THE CURRENT STAFF Ask Benny: Can I get cash back for working out? Out and About: Saturdays at the stadium
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The huge task ahead
New Orleans native and former mayor Marc Morial C’80 has been though a few hurricanes in his day. As a boy, he rode out Hurricane Betsy at his grandmother’s house in 1965 and as mayor, led the first evacuation of the city for Georges, which grazed New Orleans in 1998.
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For The Record: Toast-Throwing Tradition
Sticklers for detail will note that Penn’s toast-throwing tradition isn’t just about toast. Penn supporters throw all manner of baked goods—from bagels to muffins to pumpernickel—onto Franklin Field between the third and fourth quarter of every home football game. The cue to unleash the bread comes on the line, “Here’s a toast to dear old Penn” in a school fight song.
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In the patent wars, there's strength in numbers
Polk Wagner calls it the “patent paradox.” U.S. companies large and small are filing more and more patent applications each year, even as the actual value of those patents has continued to drop: Just 5 percent of all patents filed are eventually licensed while the rest end up all but worthless. “People are seeking them out and trying to get more patents all the time,” says Wagner, a Penn Law professor. “But there’s no evidence—and in fact there’s some evidence that suggests otherwise—that patents are becoming more valuable in actual cash value.”
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Penn President Named to National Advisory Board to FBI
PHILADELPHIA -- Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania, is one of 16 U.S. higher-education leaders named to the National Security Higher Education Board, advisor to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.The board is charged with fostering outreach, promoting understanding and strengthening relations between higher-education institutions and the FBI.
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Donald Kettl Proposes Plan to Improve FEMA at Treasury Department Emergency Preparedness Event Sept. 22
Donald F. Kettl, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Fels Institute of Government and professor of political science at Penn will present "The Worst Is Yet to Come: Lessons from 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina," a Fels research report on policy proposals to improve FEMA and the nation's emergency response system, to approximately 75 senior government officials with homeland-security responsibilities at a special session of the Treasury Executive Institute, Thursday Sept. 22 at 10 a.m. at the U.S. Mint, 801 9th St, N.W., Washington D.C.
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Penn Researcher Named among the "Brilliant 10" in Popular Science Magazine's Annual List
PHILADELPHIA -- University of Pennsylvania engineering researcher John Crocker has been named one of Popular Science's "Brilliant 10" in the September issue of the magazine. Crocker was cited for his ongoing study of how living cells sense and respond to their environment. According to the magazine, "His findings could influence fields as disparate as tissue engineering and cancer detection."
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"Comix" Artist Art Spiegelman Kicks Off 2005-06 Penn Humanities Forum Series on Word & Image
PHILADELPHIA- Pulitzer Prize-winning artist and graphic novelist and former New Yorker artist Art Spiegelman will discuss cartoons, or as he calls them "comix, the bastard offspring of art and commerce," in "Comix 101," the inaugural lecture of the 2005-06 Penn Humanities Forum at the University of Pennsylvania. Spiegelman, the underground comix author of the best selling "Maus" and "Maus II," has had an enormous influence on cartoonists, graphic artists and the comic book genre. This year Time magazine named him one of the top 100 most influential people worldwide.
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Researchers Create DNA-Based Sensors for Nano-Tongues and Nano-Noses
PHILADELPHIA -- Nano-sized carbon tubes coated with strands of DNA can create tiny sensors with abilities to detect odors and tastes, according to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Monell Chemical Sciences Center. Their findings are published in the current issue of the journal Nano Letters, a publication of the American Chemical Society.