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Go Left or Right? Single-Enantiomer Catalysts Could Create Safer Drugs.
PHILADELPHIA -- Many molecules are enantiomers: they have mirror- image versions that may have identical parts but are just as different as your left hand is from your right. The value of a drug, however, could depend on whether it is a lefty or a righty, so researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are creating catalysts that will force drug molecules to choose sides. Today, at the American Chemical Society 228th National Meeting, Penn chemist Marisa C. Kozlowski details the methods her lab is using to create the next generation of single-enantiomer catalysts.
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American Chemical Society Annual Meeting Highlights Penn's Masters of Chemistry Education
PHILADELPHIA -- Today, graduates of the University of Pennsylvania Masters of Chemistry Education program will explain how they turned their high school classrooms into working experiments in teaching chemistry. The presentations are the focus of an entire session of the at the American Chemical Society 228th National Meeting.
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Federal Assault Weapons Ban Has Mixed Success in Reducing Criminal Use of Banned Guns and Magazines
Since Congress enacted the federal assault weapons ban, the use of assault weapons in crimes has gone down, but criminal use of guns with large capacity magazines has remained steady or increased, according to a new report from the University of Pennsylvania's Jerry Lee Center of Criminology.
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Self-Assembling and Biologically Active Artificial Pores May Lead to a Future Full of Holes
PHILADELPHIA -- In the August 12 issue of the journal Nature, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania detail the creation of a library of small protein-like molecules that can self-assemble to form hollow corkscrew-like pores that could mimic pores seen in living systems. These molecules, formed from short chains of amino acids called peptides attached to tree-like fragments called dendrons, represent the first successful attempt at creating man-made pores that can form in solution and in bulk.
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Penn Sociologist Awarded $5.2 Million MacArthur Foundation Grant
PHILADELPHIA- Frank Furstenberg, professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, has received a four-year, $5.2 million grant from The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in support of the Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood, which he chairs.The Network, established in 2000 with MacArthur support, examines the changing nature of early adulthood and the new challenges facing people aged 18 to 34 as they make the transition to become self-sufficient adults.
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Experts Predict a Close Win for Kerry
Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry will win a bare majority of the major-party vote in a very close election, according to a new Delphi survey of American political experts conducted by J. Scott Armstrong, professor of marketing at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.In contrast to traditional polls where people are asked how they will vote, Armstrong employed the Delphi process to ask 15 American political experts to predict how others will vote. Delphi requires responses from only five to 20 experts, versus 500 to 1,000 voters in a political poll.
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Penn Museum's Ancient Olympics Expert David Gilman Romano to Offer Daily Web Journal From 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens Greece
Looking for a broader perspective on the 2004 Olympics Games in Athens, Greece? Log on to the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's website: http://www.museum.upenn.edu for a day-by-day perspective on what's new--and what's not.
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University of Pennsylvania Police Department Retains International Accreditation
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania Police Department, after undergoing a voluntary reassessment, has retained international accreditation by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies Inc.
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Designer and Structural Engineer Cecil Balmond Appointed Penn Professor of Architecture
Designer and Structural Engineer Cecil Balmond Appointed Penn Professor of Architecture July 30, 2004 PHILADELPHIA Cecil Balmond, a distinguished designer and structural engineer, is joining the University of Pennsylvania School of Design as a professor of architecture.
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Pennster Lets Penn Freshmen Get to Campus – Even Before they Arrive
PHILADELPHIA -- To help soothe freshman jitters for the newly minted high school graduates heading to the University of Pennsylvania, there's nothing like meeting your fellow freshman, even if they are from all over the U.S. and around the world. And Pennster is the way to do it.Pennster is a special Web site that connects incoming Penn freshmen, enabling them to connect virtually to their future classmates.