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Peter G. Traber, M.D., is going back to pure research. President Judith Rodin announced July 26 that Traber, CEO of the Health System and interim dean of the School of Medicine since February, has accepted an offer from GlaxoSmithKline to head its clinical pharmacology and experimental medicine division. Health System Chief Operating Officer Robert Martin, Ph.D., will take the title of interim CEO, and School of Medicine Deputy Dean Arthur K. Asbury, M.D., the Van Meter Emeritus Professor of Neurology, will serve as interim dean.
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The little computers that make many everyday devices work will work better in the future, thanks to a Penn research grant.
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SARAH GOLDFINE-WARD, Nursing Master’s Bike: “An old, beat-up Huffy mountain bike.” Lives: 15th & Locust
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Matt Ruben was a little blasé about being interviewed. This was understandable. After all, the Ph.D. student in English and urban studies had just come down off a stint as media guru that pushed him in front of TV cameras a dozen times in two weeks. “When I did my first press conference, I was like, ‘Wow, I’m in a press conference,’” laughed Ruben. “By the second week, I was like, ‘God, not another one!’”
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Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy 392 pages, 41 black-and-white illustrations, $22.50 paper
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The Republican shindig at the First Union Center wasn’t the only game in town this summer. While the herd of elephants staged their extravaganza in South Philly, a smaller but more interesting convention took place on the Penn campus — the Shadow Convention, a gathering called by an assemblage of activists and a syndicated columnist to raise issues the organizers claim the major parties are ignoring.
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This summer, Penn played host to the Campus Compact Presidents’ Leadership Colloquium, where higher education administrators discussed making their institutions “vital agents and architects of a flourishing democracy.”
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Fuad Ziyadeh and kidneys were meant for each other. “In my first year of medical school, the minute we started studying renal physiology, I was completely sold on nephrology as my specialty,” says the professor of medicine, his eyes flashing with excitement. “I knew I wanted to study it and I didn’t change my mind.” This summer, Ziyadeh’s passion and years of research paid off when he made a key discovery about how diabetic kidney failure happens and how it might be prevented.
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Like trees and plants? Better yet, like talking about them? The Morris Arboretum wants you. The Arboretum is looking for volunteer tour guides and is willing to train. The guides are integral to the Arboretum’s operations, explaining its history and collections to visitors. The four-session training course, held on successive Thursday evenings beginning Sept. 7 or successive Saturday mornings beginning Sept. 9, introduces guides to all they need to know about the Arboretum and its history.