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Self-Assembled Nano-Sized Probes Allow Penn Researchers to See Tumors Through Flesh and Skin
PHILADELPHIA -- Nano-sized particles embedded with bright, light-emitting molecules have enabled researchers to visualize a tumor more than one centimeter below the skin surface using only infrared light. A team of chemists, bioengineers and medical researchers based at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Minnesota has lodged fluorescent materials called porphyrins within the surface of a polymersome, a cell-like vesicle, to image a tumor within a living rodent.
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Will Bush ‘overplay’ his hand?
The so-called “third rail” of politics is hardly a taboo subject these days. President Bush and members of his administration are working hard to advance a plan to partially privatize Social Security. Though short on specifics, Bush’s plan would allow workers to invest a portion of their payroll tax in the stock market, which would offset what they’ve called a looming crisis.
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Penn on the waterfront
Take one five-mile stretch of waterfront, mix in a forward-thinking mayor and two groups of creative, resourceful students, and what do you get? A collection of creative plans for the re-use of the Delaware River waterfront in the suburb of Bensalem—plus a rewarding experience for high school and graduate students.
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Popular science
We all don’t study genetics for a living, so we all might not readily attend a lecture devoted to that topic. But what if the lecture was in everyday language and held at a bar? The new Penn Science Café Lecture Series, to be held at the MarBar (above the Marathon Grill) is designed to bring scientific topics out of the laboratory and into a casual setting. Featuring some of the University’s best scientific minds, the series allows Penn professors to chat about the topic of their choice in language all of us can understand. First up on Jan.
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Out & About: A stroll left of center
Once a month, art galleries in Philadelphia throw open their doors to welcome the public late into the night while local jazz acts perform at restaurants and galleries for a nominal fee. In Old City, it happens on the first Friday of every month. In the Powelton Village section of University City, it happens on the second.
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Bookquick/“Art in a Season of Revolution Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America”
This lushly illustrated book about art-making in the 18th century positions both well-known painters and unknown artisans within the framework of their economic lives, their families and the geographies through which they moved. “Art in a Season of Revolution” departs from standard practice and re-situates painters as artisans. Moreover, it gives equal play to the lives of the makers and the lives of the objects, studying both within the interdependent social and economic webs linking workers, theorists, suppliers and patrons throughout the mercantile Atlantic.
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Enjoying a 'peculiar' retirement
Since her retirement, Ruth Schwartz Cowan’s career has really taken off. Not too long ago, frustrated with her job at the State University of New York at Stony Brook—a place that often made her feel, she says, like an academic “outlier,” despite her sterling reputation as a historian of science and technology— Cowan decided it was time to move on.
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Quake, tsunami among worst ever
The geologic forces that caused the massive earthquake and tsunami in Southeast Asia late last month are so enormous, even an expert like Gomaa Omar says he has a hard time putting them into words. “These forces are huge,” says Omar, a graduate group chairman in Penn’s Department of Earth and Environmental Science. “They are beyond human comprehension.”
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Stealing beauty, culture
Penn archaeologist Clark Erickson is an expert on the ancient cultures of Peru and Bolivia. Over the years he’s also become something of an expert on international crime. That was never in his career plan, but the sites he excavates in South America have become major magnets for looters in search of valuable antiquities to sell on the black market.
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Eating by the book—a no-fad diet for life
As a working mother of two, Lisa Hark knows what it’s like to have hungry kids in the car at the end of a long day, begging to stop at the Wawa for a donut. “Healthy food first,”is Hark’s mantra, and she’s often found that once the hunger pangs have been satisfied, the siren song of junk food fades off into the distance.