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Extra credit Moody’s Investors Service has kicked Penn’s bond rating up a notch, from A1 to Aa3. Moody’s cited Penn’s strong fundraising performance, increased matriculation rates for accepted students and the turnaround of the Health System’s finances as factors that led them to upgrade the rating now, even though there is a changing of the guard at the top. Vice President for Finance Craig Carnaroli estimates that the higher rating will save Penn $3 million over 30 years on every $100 million borrowed.
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Iraqis visit Penn Museum
The Penn Museum has spent more than a century collecting and preserving the riches of ancient Iraq. On March 8, it got a chance to help Iraqis reclaim and preserve their own shattered treasures. That was the day that 23 young professionals from Iraqi museums arrived in Philadelphia for a two-day visit to the Museum to learn the latest techniques for preserving and displaying ancient artifacts.
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Vitamin E today, more memory tomorrow
In the search for an effective Alzheimer’s treatment, vitamin E has been on scientists’ radar screens for a while. A new study by Research Assistant Professor of Pharmacology Domenico Praticò suggests that it’s all in the timing—and earlier is definitely better. Since a major risk factor for Alzheimer’s is oxidative stress—when the oxygen we take into our bodies produces reactive substances that harm it—a powerful antioxidant like vitamin E would seem a natural choice for treating the degenerative disease. The data has been unclear, though.
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College Hall bell no longer tolls for thee
Dear Benny,I was looking at some old photos of College Hall on the Archives web site and saw a picture that showed two towers on the building. When were they removed? Why? Were any of the details saved or incorporated into other structures? — Curious About College Hall Dear Curious, As it happens, the man in charge of the site, Archives Director Mark Frazier Lloyd, can answer your question.
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Film Festival picks around Penn
From April 8 through the 21, the 13th annual Philadelphia Film Festival brings numerous screenings to downtown theaters and two screens at The Bridge: Cinema de Lux (230 S. 40th St.) and International House (3701 Chestnut St.). This is just a sampling of the 250 international, American, documentary and animation features and shorts screening in West Philadelphia. For a complete list of films, tickets and information visit the web site: www.phillyfests.com.
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Awards & Honors: Hahn wins Bancroft Prize
Steven Hahn, professor of history, won the 2004 Bancroft Prize for his book “A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South From Slavery to the Great Migration.” Chosen from an unusually large pool of nominees, Hahn’s book was described by the jurors as a “work of breathtaking ambition and scope [in which] Hahn traces the torturous route followed by African-Americans as they emerged from slavery and traveled through Reconstruction to Jim Crow and beyond.”
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People's Choice: Good eats
With new restaurants opening at a dizzying pace of late , we thought it was time to take stock of what Penn people thought were the best places to dine out. Since we didn’t restrict their choices to the campus, it’s perhaps not surprising that most of our respondents mentioned restaurants in Center City. Our readers apparently do have a taste for the new—several of their recommendations are recent additions to the local dining scene.
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Making the Most Out of Reading to Your Pre-Schooler
PHILADELPHIA -- Reading to your pre-schooler should never be a chore for parents or kids. There are small things parents can do to get the most out of time spent cuddling together reading "Where the Wild Things Are" or "Olivia Saves the Circus," said Lawrence Sipe, who teaches courses on and researches children's literacy and how youngsters interact with picture books at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Frog Skin And Supercomputers Lead Penn Chemists to Designing Better Bacteria Killers
PHILADELPHIA -- A peptide called magainin, first found in the skin of the African clawed frog, holds the secret to creating bacteria-killing surfaces, according to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. The Penn scientists have taken a joint experimental-computational approach to mimicking magainin. They designed, synthesized, tested, and then improved novel antibacterial compounds, using a combination of laboratory experiments and painstaking simulations on supercomputers.
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Penn Chemist Virgil Percec Receives American Chemical Society Award in Polymer Chemistry
PHILADELPHIA -- Virgil Percec, a professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, will receive the American Chemical Society Award in Polymer Chemistry at the society 277th national meeting in Anaheim, Calif. A prolific scientific author, Percec is recognized for the breadth of his creative work, from the discovery of cyclic and dendritic liquid crystals to the synthesis of self-assembling chemicals that can spontaneously form organized structures.