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Penn Becomes First Elite University To Offer Information-Technology Certification For Liberal-Arts Students
PHILADELPHIA The University of Pennsylvania has become the first university of its caliber to formally incorporate an applied-digital-technology program into its liberal-arts curriculum. The Penn information-technology certification, to be initiated in the fall semester, will consist of four courses, with only the first course required of all students who wish to earn the IT certificate. That course will teach algorithmic thinking and basic computer and Internet structures.
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Two From Penn Win International Communication Association Awards
PHILADELPHIA -- A professor from the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communication and a researcher from Penn Annenberg Public Policy Center have been named 2001 International Communication Association award winners.
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Whitaker Foundation Announces $14 Million Grants To Support Research, Education In Penn Bioengineering
PHILADELPHIA The Whitaker Foundation has announced a $14 million Leadership-Development Award to the University of Pennsylvania Department of Bioengineering, a leader in bioengineering education since granting the nation first Ph.D. in the discipline 40 years ago.The Whitaker funds will be matched by university support of $42.8 million, for a total $56.8 million initiative in bioengineering.
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In An Ivy-League Minute: The 60-Second Lecture Series At Penn
PHILADELPHIA There are lectures at the University of Pennsylvania this summer that can fit into even the busiest schedule. That because each of them lasts only a minute.The 60-Second Lecture Series is the 1999 creation of Valerie Ross, director of summer sessions at Penn.Past talks have involved a roll of toilet paper; the transformation of Benjamin Franklin, one of Penn founders, into the patron saint of Penn; singing; heckling; live local music; and free dessert.
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Writing In Nature, Scientists Identify Genes Key To Differentiating Top From Bottom In Plant Leaves
PHILADELPHIA Biologists at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Wisconsin have identified some of the first genes known to have a hand in differentiating top from bottom in plant leaves, a subtle morpho-logical distinction that has profound implications for development and func-tion across a wide range of plant species.
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University Of Pennsylvania Writers House Creates Recommended Book List Through Online Discussion
PHILADELPHIAespite technological advances, the book has remained a constant source of both comfort and intellectual growth. Nearly everyone has a favorite book or books. Usually these books reflect an individual life or represent a significant moment in someone life.
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Distinguished Professorship Endowed At Penn Law School In Honor Of Financier Saul A. Fox Is The Largest Single Gift For A Chaired Professorship In Penn History
PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania Law School adds to its growing corporate-law program with the creation of the Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professorship of Business Law and the associated Fox Endowed Research Fund. This is the largest single gift establishing a chair in the history of Penn.
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Were blind, but now dogs see
Bennett’s team tried the gene therapy on mice like the one on her shoulder before successfully repeating it in dogs like Lancelot (in photo behind her right arm). Bennett took Lancelot with her to Washington when she testified before Congress about the procedure May 23. Photo by Daniel R. Burke
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War and Slavery in Sudan
Jok Madut Jok 240 pages, 4 black-and-white illustrations, 2 maps, $24.95 paper Slavery has been endemic in Sudan for thousands of years. Today the Sudanese slave trade persists as a complex network of buyers, sellers, and middlemen that operates most actively when times are favorable.
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Penn Paleontologists Locate A New Genus Of Colossal Dinosaur Along An Ancient Coastline
PHILADELPHIA University of Pennsylvania researchers have unearthed a new genus of gargantuan dinosaur in a corner of Egypt that paleontologists had all but ignored since World War II, when earlier finds stored in German museums were blasted from existence by Allied warplanes. In the June 1 issue of Science, the Penn team reports on its discovery of Paralititan stromeri, one of the most massive animals ever to walk the earth, and presents evidence that the quadruped walked in ancient mangrove swamps in what is now the Sahara Desert.