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Enhanced Treatment Capabilities Featured at Penn Dental School's New Schattner Center

WHO: Faculty, staff, students and alumni of the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine will join Penn Trustees and invited guests to open the Schattner Center. WHAT: A dedication and tours of the newest building in the Dental School complex, the Schattner Center. The three-story, 70,000-square-foot building houses a new oral-surgery center, a new oral-medicine clinic for treating medically complex patients, a new admissions/emergency clinic and the campus locations of the Penn dental faculty practice.

Halftime tunesmith

Hot drinks, cool cafés

The first cold snap—well, really the first not-200-degrees-in-the-shade-snap—brought memories of hot chocolate at the ice skating rink, warm cider at Halloween, and the steam on my face from mugs of hot coffee around early campfires on chilly mornings. Woah, Nellie. We’re in the middle of University Square, where the closest thing to a campfire is the Sterno under the s’mores at Cosí. The campus is a place that has more hot drink choices than all the ice skating rinks in Philadelphia combined.

The producers

The big screens at 40th and Walnut will light up for the public Friday, Nov. 8, just in time for date night. After two days of celebration and previews for invitees, The Bridge: Cinema De Lux, a cooperative venture between the University and National Amusements, will import here its West Coast, upscale take on going to the movies (see “Campus Buzz,” page 8). The theater is the linchpin for Omar Blake’s cosmopolitan vision for the revival of the 40th Street area as a commercial strip where campus and the neighborhood meet.

News briefs

Tarzan vs. Jane Men as Tarzans and women as Janes may not be too far off the mark. New findings from the Departments of Psychiatry and Epidemiology suggest that there may be a neurological basis for the cliché that men are more aggressive than women. In experiments using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, Penn scientists found that the relative size of the sections of the brain responsible for regulating aggression and monitoring behavior is larger in women than in men.

Campus Buzz

De Lux events: The long-awaited Nov. 8 opening of The Bridge: Cinema De Lux, the new six-screen cinema at 40th and Walnut streets, will be bracketed by two special events. Thursday, Nov. 7, Penn students’ six favorite films of all time, as chosen by vote, will be shown continuously from 10 a.m. to midnight (free admission with your PennCard). Free showings of Disney films for children will take place on Saturday morning, Nov. 9 (admission free with coupons from the Philadelphia Daily News).

125 years of smiles

Bright whites are flashing at the School of Dental Medicine as it nears its 125th birthday. The milestone event will be marked by a Nov. 1 dedication of the Robert Schattner Center, a 70,000-square-foot space that houses an admissions and emergency clinic, an oral and maxillofacial surgery center and a specialized facility to treat medically-compromised patients. An invitation-only dental leadership forum kicks off the celebration today.

Patusky Joins United Therapeutics Board

PHILADELPHIA- Christopher Patusky, deputy director of the University of Pennsylvania Fels Institute of Government, has been appointed to the United Therapeutics Board of Directors. United Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on combating chronic and life-threatening cardiovascular, infectious and oncological diseases with unique therapeutic products.

Dental Education Forum: How the Profession Can Meet the Public's Future Oral Health Needs

WHO: Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of PennsylvaniaCaswell A. Evans Jr., director of the National Oral Health Initiative of the Office of the U.S. Surgeon GeneralU.S. Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania

Former U.S. Health Secretary to Detail Factors Impacting Access to Oral Health Care in America

WHO: Louis Sullivan, president of Morehouse School of Medicine and former secretary of health and human services, will address the 125th Anniversary Dental Leadership Forum at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. WHAT: Sullivan will discuss access to oral health care across the country, as addressed in "Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General," published in 2000. The report found profound disparities in the availability of care across the country, a decline in the dentist-to-population ratio and a shortage of dental-school faculty.