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Ben Franklin Autobiography Is Penn Reading Project as City Prepares for Yearlong 300th Birthday Celebration
PHILADELPHIA -- As America prepares to celebrate Ben Franklin's 300th birthday, freshmen at the Franklin-founded University of Pennsylvania will be reading his autobiography for the annual Penn Reading Project.Each fall, as part of new student orientation at Penn, incoming students and volunteer faculty and senior administrators discuss a single book in a non-graded, non-credit experience known as the Penn Reading Project.
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Penn Researchers Take a Big Step Forward in Making Smaller Circuits
PHILADELPHIA -- Physicists at the University of Pennsylvania have overcome a major hurdle in the race to create nanotube-based electronics. In an article in the August issue of the journal Nature Materials, available online now, the researchers describe their method of using nanotubes tiny tubes entirely composed of carbon atoms -- to create a functional electronic circuit. Their method creates circuits by dipping semiconductor chips into liquid suspensions of carbon nanotubes, rather than growing the nanotubes directly on the circuit.
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Penn Hosts World Congress of Criminology Conference
PHILADELPHIA-- More than 1,100 people from 65 nations are expected to gather on the University of Pennsylvania campus for the 14th World Congress of Criminology Conference Aug. 7-11. Coordinated by Penn's Jerry Lee Center of Criminology, in collaboration with the International Society of Criminology, the conference,"Preventing Crime & Promoting Justice: Voices for Change," will examine issues such as gun violence, drug abuse, juvenile delinquency, mentoring at-risk youth and restorative justice.
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New Stamp Depicts Last B-24 Bomber Lost in WWII Chronicled in Book by Penn Professor Thomas Childers
PHILADELPHIA --The B-24 Liberator depicted on one of the new U.S. Postal Service stamps is the Black Cat, chronicled in "Wings of Morning: The Story of the Last American Bomber Shot Down Over Germany in World War II" by Thomas Childers, a history professor at the University of Pennsylvania.Childers, the nephew of a crewman killed in the crash, wrote the book based on his discovery of hundreds of his uncle's wartime letters. He spoke at a first-day-of-issue ceremony to dedicate the "American Advances in Aviation" commemorative stamp pane July 29.
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Penn's Kelly Writers House Announces Spring 2006 Fellows
PHILADELPHIA-- Writers Richard Ford, Cynthia Ozick and Ian Frazier have been named the Kelly Writers House Fellows for the spring 2006 semester at the University of Pennsylvania.Ford will be on the Penn campus Feb. 13-14, followed by Ozick March 20-21 and Frazier April 17-18.The Fellows program offers undergraduate students the opportunity to interact with noted authors in an informal setting.
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Expert Comment on U.S. Supreme Court Nominee John Roberts
Expert Comment on U.S. Supreme Court Nominee John Robertsfrom the University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolJuly 20, 2005Nathaniel Persily, a law and political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania, researches, writes and teaches about constitutional law, election law and politics
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Expert Comment on the U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice's Role
Expert Comment on the U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice's Rolefrom the University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolJuly 14, 2005Theodore Ruger, professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, researches, teaches and writes about the history of the Supreme Court, judicial appointments and constitutional history. He's currently researching and writing about the powers of the chief justice.
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The Penn Science Cafe Presents: Maybe You CAN Hurry Love
The Penn Science Cafe Presents:Maybe You Can Hurry Love: The Science of Mating and DatingWHAT: The Penn Science Cafe can be your chance to ask your questions directly to leading experts. WHO: Robert Kurzban, assistant professor of psychology, Penn's School of Arts and SciencesWHERE: The MarBar 40th and Walnut streets, PhiladelphiaWHEN: 6 p.m., Monday, July 25 Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
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Penn Team Leaves to Train Teachers in Tsunami-Ravaged Indonesia
WHO:Five members of a team led by Graduate School of Education Associate Professor Kathy SchultzWHAT:Dr. Schultz and her team will be leaving for the airport and taking more than 30 boxes of donated school supplies. The group will serve as master teachers in Indonesia, where they will train educators responsible for teaching the more than 1,000 teachers needed to replace those killed in the December 2004 tsunami. WHEN:Tuesday, July 122:30 5 p.m.: School supplies being packed6 p.m.: Van being packed and leaving for Newark airport
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"Whimsical Works: The Playful Designs of Charles and Ray Eames" Opens July 22 at Penn's Arthur Ross Gallery
PHILADELPHIA -- "Whimsical Works: The Playful Designs of Charles and Ray Eames" will be on display July 22-Sept. 11 at the Arthur Ross Gallery on the University of Pennsylvania campus.The exhibition will feature toys, children's furniture and whimsical films by Charles and Ray Eames. All are lesser-known aspects of the work of this famous husband-and-wife design team, who introduced molded-plywood and plastic furniture to America in the mid-20th century.