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A professional approach to public health
The University Trustees have approved the creation of a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree that will be Penn’s first university-wide professional degree program. The new degree is the culmination of a three-year process that required the collaborative effort of eight schools: the School of Medicine, which administers the program and offers the degree, and the schools of Arts and Sciences, Dental Medicine, Education, Nursing, Social Work, Veterinary Medicine and Wharton.
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Staff Q&A: Pamela Caudill
Pamela Caudill spreads a black fleece blanket on her desk. On one corner is an embroidered name flanked by pink roses on either side. Handcrafted by Caudill herself, the throw is intended as a present for one of her staffers.
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Bernstein, Sontag, Anderson to visit
Kelly Writers House has announced that screenwriter Walter Bernstein, performance artist Laurie Anderson and critic-turned-novelist Susan Sontag will each spend several days on campus this spring as Writers House Fellows. Walter Bernstein, once a regular contributor to The New Yorker, wrote the scripts for “Fail Safe” and “The Magnificent Seven” among others, but is best known as the blacklisted screenwriter during the McCarthy era who turned his story into an Academy Award-nominated movie, “The Front,” starring Woody Allen. He will be at Penn Feb. 17-18.
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Penn-in-Harrisburg I: There’s another bigwig in the Rendell administration with a Penn connection: Secretary of Conservation and Natural Resources Mike DiBerardinis. The longtime community activist had served as recreation commissioner in the administration of Mayor Rendell. This fall, he was named executive director of the Campaign for Working Families, a project housed in Penn’s Center for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society designed to help low-income families take advantage of state and federal programs that assist the working poor.
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Surfactant Curtails Nanotube Clumping in Water, Removing a Major Barrier to Many Applications
PHILADELPHIA – Scientists have long touted carbon nanotubes as a futuristic means of delivering drugs, fortifying brittle materials and conducting current in miniaturized circuits. But attempts to introduce actual nanotubes into these roles have often been stopped in their tracks by the slender filaments' stubborn and unhelpful tendency to clump together in solution.
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Penn Scientists Hochstrasser, Davis Win Franklin Medal
PHILADELPHIA – Two University of Pennsylvania researchers have been selected as 2003 recipients of the Benjamin Franklin Medal, one of the world's oldest science and technology awards. The laureates will be honored April 24 at an award ceremony at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
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University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor named National Football League's Special Master
PHILADELPHIA – University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Stephen Burbank has been appointed special master to resolve designated disputes between the National Football League Management Council and the NFL Players Association. U.S. District Judge David S. Doty appointed Burbank upon the joint recommendation of the Management Council and Players Association, as provided in a 1993 consent decree resolving antitrust litigation and in the NFL collective bargaining agreement.
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Brinster a Recipient of the Wolf Prize in Medicine
PHILADELPHIA – Ralph L. Brinster, professor of reproductive physiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, has been selected as a recipient of the 2002-03 Wolf Prize in Medicine. The Wolf Prize jury cited him "for the development of procedures to manipulate mouse ova and embryos, which has enabled transgenesis and its applications in mice."
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Public Forum on Penn's Landing and Philadelphia Riverfront
WHO: Robert Yaro, president, Regional Plan Association of New York, New Jersey and ConnecticutJames Cuorato, director, department of commerce in PhiladelphiaJames Corner, chair, Department of Landscape Architecture, Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of PennsylvaniaWitold Rybczynski, professor of urbanism at PennPeter Linneman, professor of real estate, finance and public policy at PennGary Hack, dean, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Penn
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Dorothy Cotton to Deliver Keynote at Penn Interfaith Program to Honor Martin Luther King Jr.
WHO: Dorothy Cotton, former education director of the Southern Christian Leadership ConferenceJudith Rodin, president of the University of PennsylvaniaWinners of the King Community Involvement AwardsNew Salem Baptist ChoirThe Shabbatones, Penn musical group WHAT: Interfaith Program WHEN: 7 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 23, 2003 WHERE: Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce St., Philadelphia