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Penn grows the region
A new study of Penn’s impact on the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania economy shows that the University is one of the region’s — and the state’s — main engines of growth.
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People do make the difference
Flo Griffin, manager of finance and administration in Public Safety, donates blood, time and money to the Red Cross and numerous organizations serving children. She was also a beneficiary of the Red Cross’ work during Hurricane Floyd, when she had to stay in a Red Cross shelter in Darby. “Experiencing that first-hand gave me a heightened sense of awareness” of what the Red Cross does, she said. She has since received a pin for donating more than four gallons of blood, and is well on the way to her fifth.
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A better Viagra?
Who would have thought impotence could ever be so chic? Once a subject to be discussed only in hushed tones, the release of the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra has made impotence a hot topic. Impotence affects half of the male population over 40, according to a 1994 study. Now it seems a promising new treatment may be underway. David Christianson, Edmund and Louise Kahn Professor of Chemistry, and three collaborators have published a paper in the Nov. 1 edition of the journal Nature Structural Biology on a potential impotence drug that may work where Viagra does not.
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Sweet stuff and Sting
Like the rest of us this time of year, the folks at “The World Cafe” are caught up in the holiday frenzy, and had only enough time to give us a brief sampling of what’s coming up over the next month. But that sample is enough to show that it’s going to be a swingin’ season. Here’s what’s up for the next week or so; after that — well, tune in and find out. Thursday, Dec. 2 Ethereal folk-popsters The Innocence Mission perform music from their new album “Birds of My Neighborhood”
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Ford Motor Company Donates $2 Million to the University of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA --- Ford Motor Company has donated $2 million to the University of Pennsylvania. The grant will provide support for a wide range of student and faculty programs at both The Wharton School and the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
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Claudia Gould
The new director turned the inside outside in her first event at the Institute of Contemporary Art. Claudia Gould draped the side of the building that faces Sansom Common with a plain white tarp to show passersby the videos being screened indoors by curators, video artists and whoever else was attracted by the event. Alas, the lights of Sansom Common made the videos hard to see, but the sound effects were loud and clear. And so was Gould’s message — that the ICA was of the people, by the people and for the people.
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The world turned upside down
It took a little effort, but Harcum College freshman Chrisnie Grobler (center) did find her homeland of South Africa on this map of the world. And if the people around her — (left to right) third-year School of Medicine student Kareem Zaghlool, University of Scranton junior Anthony Zamcho and Engineering doctoral student Kai Hynna — look bemused, that’s understandable: The map shows the world as someone from Sydney might view it.
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Math turns 100
Depending on how you want to count it, the mathematics department last month celebrated its 100th year or 250 years of math at Penn. Back in 1749, when 24 trustees were constituted as governors of the institution that would eventually become Penn, the School of Mathematics didn’t yet have a distinct personality. It included disciplines we now recognize as physics, astronomy and philosophy. In 1899, as both the discipline and the University evolved, a separate mathematics department emerged at Penn and the first chairman was named.
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A peek into an emerging science
The game of chess can be described using fewer than a dozen rules. Yet we’ve been playing it for centuries and have yet to exhaust all the possible sequences of moves those few rules permit. That, in a nutshell, describes what psychologist and computer scientist John Holland is now studying — how a few relatively simple building blocks can combine to produce systems of enormous complexity.
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“Most reduce drinking by age 30 or so, but some continue on and become alcoholics.”
Charles O’Brien, professor of psychiatry, on studies that show college students drink more heavily than others their age and the population at large (Philadelphia Daily News, Nov. 2)