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New ways to get fit (and stay that way)
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Modeling lab gets new digs
This summer the Cartographic Modeling Laboratory (CML) settled into a new home on the second floor of the School of Social Work’s Caster Building. The move, from cramped quarters in Meyerson Hall, gives CML’s staff more room to breathe as well as vital space for the computing technology that drives its data-gathering, mapping and analyzing work. It also underscores how much this interdisciplinary initiative has grown.
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Museum lion gets nip and tuck
When Penn Museum’s main entrance courtyard reopens late this fall, visitors won’t notice any dramatic changes. A few unruly magnolia trees will be gone, and tidy, low hedges will better define the formal landscaping. But much will be the same, including the majestic marble urns and mischievous bronze satyr that have welcomed Museum-goers for half a century. The reflecting pool will be back, too, though the marble coping around it will be new. The pool’s lion’s head fountain will also be new. Sort of.
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Digging through trash to find history
For Robert Schuyler and his students, one town’s trash is their archaeological treasure. Associate Curator of Penn Museum’s Historical Archaeology section, Schuyler has been working with his students for the last three years to unearth garbage from the not-so-distant past.
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Penn Names New Executive Vice President
PHILADELPHIA -- Craig Carnaroli, senior vice president for finance at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named Executive Vice President by Penn President Amy Gutmann. Carnaroli will assume his new post effective immediately.
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'Tipping Point' Author Malcolm Gladwell to Lead Penn Reading Project Group Sunday
WHO: Malcolm Gladwell, staff writer for The New Yorker, is the author of "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference." This book was chosen for the University of Pennsylvania's Reading Project this year. The author will lead a small discussion group of Penn students.Gladwell, who calls this book "an intellectual adventure story," covered the AIDS epidemic as a reporter for the Washington Post, and, in his research, epidemiologists exposed him to a different way of looking at the world.
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Researchers Spin Carbon Nanotubes Into Usable Fibers
PHILADELPHIA -- Materials scientists from the University of Pennsylvania and chemists from Rice University report the first large-scale manufacture of fibers composed solely of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) in the Sept. 3 issue of the journal Science. This new material is a macroscopic realization of many of the amazing mechanical, electrical and thermal properties of nano-scale ideal nanotubes.
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Penn Law School Students Help Draft a Criminal Code for the Maldives
Penn Law School Students Help Draft a Criminal Code for the MaldivesAug. 24, 2004PHILADELPHIA Some University of Pennsylvania Law School students will have a unique opportunity to help the Maldives rewrite its criminal code.The Maldives, a nation of 1,200 islands in the Indian Ocean, is in the process of reforming its criminal laws. The country's citizens are Muslim, and its current criminal code is based on the Islamic law Shari'a.
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Trojan Horses, Xenon Imaging and Remote Controlled Genes: Chemical Cages Deliver Drugs and Peer into Cells
PHILADELPHIA -- As our understanding of biology increases, the tools of research become almost as important as the researchers wielding them. Currently, one of the major obstacles to research is actually getting inside of cells and tissue to see what is going on as it happens. At the University of Pennsylvania, researchers are caging xenon, gene-blocking strands of antisense DNA and even therapeutics to facilitate their entry into cells and enable researchers to observe nature's biochemical clockwork.