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Sayre Middle School Students Get a Taste of College Life

WHAT: "Communiversity Day," a day-long campus visit designed to provide area youth from Sayre Middle School an opportunity to experience college life and see first hand the broad spectrum of activities at the University of Pennsylvania. Activities include visits to classes, admissions, the Van Pelt Library and Penn Athletic facilities.

Alzheimer's Protein Jams Mitochondria of Affected Cells; Resulting ‘Energy Crisis' and Toxin Buildup Kills Neurons

PHILADELPHIA -- Opening a new front in the battle against Alzheimer's disease, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have found that a protein long associated with the disease inflicts grave damage in a previously unimagined way: It seals off mitochondria in affected neurons, resulting in an "energy crisis" and buildup of toxins that causes cells to die. This pathway, the first specific biochemical explanation for pathologies associated with Alzheimer's, is detailed in the April 14 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology.

Penn Professor Honored as Homeless Advocate

PHILADELPHIA -- Dennis Culhane, professor of social welfare policy at the University of Pennsylvania, has received the John W. Macy Award from the National Alliance to End Homelessness for his individual leadership. Culhane won the award for his research on the causes of homelessness and for his advocacy of possible solutions. His efforts have had a profound effect on the way homelessness is approached by policy-makers nationwide, according to the Alliance. He has spurred the development of programs designed to solve homelessness by tracking the use of homelessness systems.

Alumni Gift Enables University of Pennsylvania to Create Umbrella Student Disabilities Services Program

PHILADELPHIA -- A $1 million gift from 1970 Wharton graduate Jeffrey Weingarten and his wife Susan to the University of Pennsylvania will enable Penn to build on its services to students with additional needs.

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Americans filled with spirit, survey finds

In these times of crisis—political, economic, and emotional—Americans have shown a remarkable commitment to faith and spirituality, according to a new study from researchers at Penn, the Gallup Organization and the George H. Gallup International Institute.

Penn and Knight Foundation to Develop Center for Urban Redevelopment Excellence

PHILADELPHIA -- The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has approved a $2.4 million grant to the University of Pennsylvania to launch the Center for Urban Redevelopment Excellence. To help close the gap between supply and demand for practitioners with the skills needed to reverse neighborhood decline, CURExPenn will train at least 430 of the best potential urban-development managers and accelerate their growth into effective practitioners.

Ray Bonikowski

Return to Tikal

The 21st Annual Maya Weekend at the University of Pennsylvania Museum focuses on the Museum’s excavations at Tikal, one of the largest and most important of all Maya cities. The weekend conference features the first public presentation of the Tikal Digital Access Project, which, when completed, will make an archive of more than half a million archaeological records accessible to scholars and Maya enthusiasts around the world.

SEAL dives into new career in business

You could say that Gentry Jensen stumbled upon Wharton when “Good Morning America” stumbled upon him. “We were training out in the desert once, just out there completely by ourselves, and a film crew came up and wanted to shoot footage of us,” said Jensen. “It was a crew from ‘Good Morning America’ who was doing a piece on SEAL officers who had gotten out, gone to business school, and gone on to do things after that. That kind of planted the seeds in my head.”