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Penn Names Deputy Director For Fels Center Of Government
PHILADELPHIA -- Christopher Patusky has been named deputy director of the University of Pennsylvania's Fels Center of Government and its master degree program. Patusky, a founding partner of the Washington, D.C. law firm Mahon Patusky, Rothblatt & Fisher, will serve as the chief operating officer of Penn postgraduate education program for government leaders.
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Drowsy Fruit Flies Illuminate First Molecular Pathway, In Any Species, Known To Regular Rest And Wakefulness
PHILADELPHIA - Working with sleep-deprived fruit flies, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have uncovered the first molecular pathway, in any species, implicated in the shift between rest and wakefulness.
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Clothes and the Renaissance man/Q&A with Peter Stallybrass
One of the walls in Peter Stallybrass’s house is covered with bookshelves filled with books, ancient in cracked leather covers and modern in paper and cloth. Ancient and modern art works, many of them textile-based, hang all around, and beautiful wood objects like his father’s recorders—one a bass recorder and a smaller treble recorder—punctuate the airy space. Stallybrass, the Edmund J. and Louise W.
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Red, blue & green As winter approaches, Penn is putting all things energy on top of its list. The school now leads the nation as the top purchaser of wind-produced electrical energy. Come blustery days, the Exelon-Community Energy Wind Farm in Somerset County will parcel out 30 percent of its pollution-free energy to the school. And Penn’s forward-thinking energy policy won’t end there. Vice President of Facilities Services Omar Blaik said the campus community is encouraged to participate in the energy conservation policy.
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And the winners are…: This is the moment you’ve all been waiting for—well, at least the 319 of you who responded to our fall readership survey. Here are the winners of our survey prize drawing: $25 gift certificate from the Penn Bookstore: Maureen Kelly in the Division of Public Safety
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$7 mil. for center
With a $7 million grant, the Medical Center has established a center to reduce the risk of medication errors. Provided by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the grant established the new Center of Excellence for Patient Safety Research and Practice, which includes physicians and researchers from multiple disciplines, including biostatistics and economics. “Sadly, medication errors are among the most common,” said Brian L. Strom, director of the center. “They account for more deaths each year than motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer or HIV infection.”
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Student spotlight: Small change creates a big donation
Dana Hork (C’02) wants you to see the big picture. Forget the little bitsy parts and focus instead on the collective. Having a hard time? No worries. Hork, founder of Change for Change, is an expert at getting others to think big.
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History lesson reflects the present in the past
When confused, turn to the past for clarity, Michael Zuckerman recently told a group of Philadelphia high school students, student teachers and teachers. At an Oct. 19 interdisciplinary workshop on teaching primary texts in public schools, which was co-hosted by the Graduate School of Education, the Annenberg Foundation and Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Zuckerman said that the American Revolution and the events following Sept. 11 share surprising similarities.
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Reforms come and go, Fuhrman warns
As the city and state continue to butt heads over the future of Philadelphia’s public schools, the dean of the Graduate School of Education had a thing or two to say about the history of urban school reform. In an Oct. 24 talk titled “Urban Education Challenges: Is Reform the Way?” Susan Fuhrman said that the reflexive need to look towards reform as the answer to failing schools must end. This year’s speaker for the GSE’s Constance E. Clayton Lecture, Fuhrman talked about the prevalence of “disappointing” reforms.
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Editor's Pick: Edgar Allan Poe visits his mummy
Americans’ fascination with all things Egyptian has a long and rich history, going back to the early 19th century. Egypt even caught the eye of Edgar Allan Poe, America’s first master of the macabre, who wrote the short story “Some Words with a Mummy” in 1845. On Nov. 10 and 11, renowned actor and Poe impersonator David Keltz stages his new one-man show, “Some Words with a Mummy: Edgar Allan Poe and Egyptology” in a most appropriate setting: the University of Pennsylvania Museum’s Lower Egyptian Gallery.