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Arthur H. Rubenstein, MBBCh, Named Executive Vice President Of The University Of Pennsylvania For The Health System And Dean, School Of Medicine
PHILADELPHIA Arthur H. Rubenstein, MBBCh, an accomplished physician, diabetes researcher and academic leader, has been named executive vice president of the University of Pennsylvania for the Health System and dean of the School of Medicine.
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Penn's Solomon Asch Center For Study Of Ethnopolitical Conflict Opens In New Home July 30
PHILADELPHIA The Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania has a new home. On July 30 Penn President Judith Rodin will join Asch Center directors and affiliated faculty, academics from area colleges and universities, city officials and other invited guests for the official opening of the new home in Suite 305 at St. Leonard's Court, 39th and Chestnut streets in Philadelphia.
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NSF Awards Interdisciplinary Penn Team $1.45 Million To Study, Develop Building Blocks Of Nanostructures
PHILADELPHIA The National Science Foundation has awarded $1.45 million to scientists at the University of Pennsylvania, establishing a new Nanotechnology Science and Engineering Center that will seek out the building blocks of next-generation nanostructures.The four-year grant will permit Penn researchers to take aim at one of nanotechnology chief challenges: learning how simple biological molecules organize themselves into structures far more complicated and then putting those lessons to work in the development of synthetic self-assembling molecules.
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Penn Study Shows African-American Churches Play Key Role In Reducing Neighborhood Crime
PHILADELPHIA African-American youth who regularly attend church services get into less trouble than those who don. That is the conclusion of a study by Byron Johnson, director of the Center for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society at the University of Pennsylvania. His findings are compiled in a report entitled "The Role of African-American Churches in Reducing Crime Among Black Youth."
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Penn Police Officer Directs Traffic With Flair
[NOTE TO EDITORS: Photographs of Officer Johnson directing traffic are available electronically or via U.S. mail.] PHILADELPHIA When Officer Floyd Johnson directs traffic, people pay attention. And they smile. With his cheerleader-like moves and unbounded enthusiasm, Johnson, a University of Pennsylvania policeman, brings grins to the faces of weary drivers and harried pedestrians in the late afternoons at 36th and Walnut streets, one of the busiest intersections on Penn campus.
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Inforesources Providing The Numbers On West and Southwest Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIAehind every neighborhood is a wealth of stored knowledge. Accessing that information is the key to determining troubled areas and producing the solutions to fix them. The University of Pennsylvania Department of City and Regional Planning of the Graduate School of Fine Arts has launched an online comprehensive overview of data about West and Southwest Philadelphia called InfoResources at http://westphillydata.library.upenn.edu/.
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Education Dean's Testimony To House Committee On Education And The Workforce
Testimony toThe U.S. House Committee on Education and the WorkforceThe Policy Influence of Education Research and R&D CentersSubmitted by Susan H. FuhrmanDean, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania and Chair, Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE)
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Penn Engineering's David Meaney Wins Y. C. Fung Award, A Top Honor For Young Bioengineering Researchers
PHILADELPHIA David F. Meaney, a bioengineer at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named the 2001 recipient of the Y.C. Fung Young Investigator Award, one of his field top honors for young researchers. The Fung Award goes to a bioengineering researcher younger than 36 who demonstrates the potential to make substantial contributions to the discipline. It has been awarded annually by the Bioengineering Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers since 1985.
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Thomas Rambo Named Chief Of Police At Penn
PHILADELPHIA -- Thomas A. Rambo, a lieutenant with the University of Pennsylvania Police Department, has been named Chief of Police at Penn, according to an announcement today by Maureen Rush, Vice President for Public Safety at Penn. His appointment will be effective July 9.
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New house dean, more Fulbrights
Patricia Williams has been named the new House Dean of W.E.B. DuBois College House. Williams, a native New Yorker, is a poet and writer with many years of experience in student services and administration at Fordham and Yeshiva universities.