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Ask Benny: Where can I find day care at Penn?
Dear Benny,I walk past College Hall just about every day—and I can’t help wondering how old that building is. So tell me, how long has College Hall been around? —Curious Bypasser Dear Campus Walker, The short answer to your question is this: College Hall has been sitting in West Philly as long as Penn has been sitting in West Philly.
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On a sacred quest
Following the success of “Historic Houses of Philadelphia” (Penn Press, 1998), Roger Moss has spent the last three years working on a second volume, “Historic Sacred Places of Philadelphia” (Penn Press, 2004). Teaming up once again with architectural photographer Tom Crane, Moss takes readers of the newly published book on a history-rich visual tour of some of the city’s finest places of worship. Though packed with scholarly insight and historic research, it’s as much a coffee table book as an academic tome. And that’s just how Moss wants it.
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Flu risk could have easily been avoided
Newspapers and television news stations have been reporting for weeks about the shortage of influenza vaccines in the U.S.—and Americans’ sometimes frantic attempts to get a flu shot. But just how big a deal is this national shortage? According to Dr. Neil Fishman, an expert in infectious diseases at Penn, it’s a very big deal indeed. And the worst part is, he says, it could have easily been avoided.
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Penn’s Landing a key opportunity?
When Mayor John Street announced last month that development plans for Philadelphia’s Penn’s Landing had once again been put on hold, Harris Steinberg, unlike many other Philadelphians, wasn’t disappointed. In fact, he was optimistic.
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Penn, Harvard on collision course
The Penn football team hasn’t always won pretty this year, but they’ve won nonetheless. And, as a result, the Quakers’ dominance over the Ivy League continues. With a 17-7 win over Yale on Oct. 23, Penn extended its Ivy League winning streak to 18 games, and upped its season record to 5-1. The 18-game win streak breaks the previous Ivy League record of 17 straight wins—also set by Penn, from 1992-1995.
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Cracking the code of an ancient culture
After Simon Martin left a successful design career to spend his days deciphering Mayan hieroglyphics, some of his colleagues thought he was “bonkers.” But for the British-born Martin, now a research specialist in Mayan epigraphy at Penn Museum and an internationally renowned Mayan hieroglyphics expert, the career move made perfect sense—and it was a long time coming.
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Growth Factors Confer Immortality to Sperm-generating Stem Cells
PHILADELPHIA -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine have identified the growth factors essential to allow spermatogonial stem cells -- the continually self-renewing cells that produce sperm -- to exist in culture indefinitely. Their findings will be presented this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science online Early Edition.
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It's "Bush by a Nose" in Forecast by Delphi Survey Experts
PHILADELPHIA -- In the most recent Delphi Survey on this year's presidential election, a panel of 17 American political experts predicts a hair-splitting, 1 percent margin of victory for President Bush in the two-party vote for president. J. Scott Armstrong, professor of marketing at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, said the experts were 95 percent certain that Bush will receive at least 48 percent and not more than 53 percent of the two-party vote.
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International Students and Scholars at Penn Will Offer Helping Hands for the American Election
NOTE TO EDITORS: Interviews with individual international-student volunteers can be arranged. Also, media representatives may attend either of two Oct. 27 training sessions and/or accompany the volunteers to polling places on Nov. 2.Oct. 25, 2004PHILADELPHIA On Election Day next week, Americans won't be the only ones participating in our 228-year-old democracy.