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Penn, Goldman Sachs Foundation To Promote Entrepreneurship In Education
PHILADELPHIA The University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education and The Goldman Sachs Foundation are preparing Penn students and K-12 educators to start new initiatives in education. The Goldman Sachs Entrepreneurship in Education program will nurture entrepreneurial-minded educators and support their development of new initiatives.
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Director of Penn Institute for Economic Research Appointed
PHILADELPHIA -Antonio M. Merlo has been appointed director of the Penn Institute for Economic Research at the University of Pennsylvania. Merlo, the Lawrence R. Klein Associate Professor of Economics, joined the Penn faculty in 2000 after holding tenured positions at the University of Minnesota and New York University. His specialty is political economy, and he is a research fellow in the public policy program of the Centre for Economic Policy Research.
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New $2.84 Million Grant Supports Efforts to Improve Reliability of Computers Embedded in Electronic Devices
PHILADELPHIA - Computer scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and other institutions have received a $2.84 million grant to boost the dependability of the specialized minicomputers embedded in electronic devices from toasters to passenger jets. The three-year award, from the U.S. Department of Defense Army Research Office, brings external funding awarded to Penn embedded systems research group within the last 18 months to more than $6 million.
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Lifesaver Can playing a computer game prevent someone from having a heart attack? Thanks to Barry G. Silverman, professor of systems engineering and creator of the Heart-Sense game, it can. The 15-minute game begins with a conversation between an emergency worker and an individual experiencing severe chest pains. Players then enter a fictitious village to witness people with chest pains and symptoms of heart attack. In follow-up questionnaires, those who played the game said they are now more likely to seek help in the event of heart attack symptoms.
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Test yourself on Mr. Grossbach’s neighborhood
Check off how many of these cool spots west of campus you know. We got the list from long-time neighborhood denizen Barry Grossbach, executive vice president of the Spruce HIll Community Association. See if you’re an Official West Phillyphile or maybe just a U. City Newbie. Woodlands Cemetery, Woodland Avenue and 40th Street, resting spot of artist Thomas Eakins and Penn Dental School founder Thomas Evans.
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Government pumps $6.7 million into circulatory research
- The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute has awarded $6.7 million over five years to Penn’s Institute for Medicine and Engineering. The grant will promote the study of cellular and molecular mechanisms in blood vessels that regulate physiological processes in the cardiovascular system. Led by IME Director Peter F. Davies, the investigation will also test new therapies for heart valve calcification, blood clotting disorder and the weakening and rupture of blood vessels.
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Report from Ground Zero
After a delay at the Lincoln Tunnel for a bomb scare, we arrived at the Javits Convention Center, the base of operations (called the “BOO”), at about midnight Sept. 11. By 3 a.m. we were ready to go to work. The team was divided into the day shift and the night shift. It was decided that local veterinary care would be harder to obtain at night, so I was on the night shift. The night search dogs were
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Minority children can have a dream—of dentistry
Neither A. Melissa Lopez (C’99,D’02) nor Jimmy Morrison (D’03) dreamed of being a dentist growing up. Well, they both say that hardly anyone dreams of growing up a dentist. But the two dental students, after observing the low numbers of minorities training for dentistry, want to plant that dream in the hearts of young minorities.
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Q&A with Paul Meyer
Doubling. Tripling. Multiplying. These are the words that come to mind when you think about Penn’s Morris Arboretum under Paul L. Meyer. Since becoming F. Otto Haas Director in 1991, Meyer has jump-started and revamped the Arboretum’s endowment, educational programs and status in the public sphere.
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Who’s the boss? Maybe not Papa.
One of the cleavages in American society has just gotten bigger—that’s according to Andrew Hacker, professor of political science at Queens College. At the annual Sackler Lecture hosted by the Sociology Department on Oct. 4 Hacker talked about the “growing gulf between men and women.” An expert in the dividing lines of America, he has published works on racial and class distinctions. Hacker now seeks to shatter the myth that men and women are balancing partners.