Through
5/1
News Archives
A complete list of stories featured on Penn Today.
Filter Stories
Displaying 17151 - 17160 of 18539
Archive ・ Penn News
Neuron By Neuron, Penn Researchers Study Brain Cells' Attempts To Heal Themselves After Severe Injuries
PHILADELPHIA Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have won a $3.1 million bioengineering research grant to study brain injuries at a level of detail never before attained. The team, lead by Penn bioengineer David F. Meaney, will detect the genes and proteins altered in single neurons in the brain to better understand the cellsresponses to contusions and other forms of brain trauma.
Archive ・ Penn News
Philadelphia Architect Marshall D. Meyers Dies At 70
PHILADELPHIA -- Architect Marshall D. Meyers, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects who spent his professional life in Philadelphia, died August 12 in Pasadena, Calif. He was 70. Meyers was known for his exceptional contributions to the art and craft of architecture, and is internationally recognized for his innovative contributions to Philadelphia architect Louis I.
Archive ・ Penn News
Physicists Find Gyrations Of Tiny Rod-Like Viruses Induce Measurable Entropic Forces In Solution
PHILADELPHIA In an experiment with exquisite sensitivity, physicists at the University of Pennsylvania have found that fluctuations as fleeting as the bending of rod-shaped viruses just 880 millionths of a millimeter in length can measurably increase the entropic forces between other particles in solution. The finding is reported in the journal Physical Review Letters.
Archive ・ Penn News
Penn Offers Doctorate In Higher Education Management
PHILADELPHIA--Back to school this year has taken new meaning for 18 senior administrators from higher education across the nation. They are not only orchestrating the new academic year from their posts as vice presidents and deans but they are also beginning their doctorates in higher education management at the University of Pennsylvania.The Executive Doctorate is structured so participants can earn the Penn doctorate in education in two years by coming to Philadelphia for a long weekend once a month for 20 consecutive months. The program begins on Aug. 16 and runs to Aug. 21.
Archive ・ Penn News
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.
Archive ・ Penn News
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.
Archive ・ Penn News
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.
Archive ・ Penn News
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.
Archive ・ Penn News
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."
Archive ・ Penn News
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)