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Praise for Penn women
“We can do better than that,” Judith Berkowitz (CW’64) thought to herself when she came across a sculpture celebrating 25 years of accomplishments by Yale women one day. We, meaning the women at Penn, who have been here for 125 years. This chance encounter came only days after Sandra Williamson (CW’63), a former chair of the Trustees’ Council of Penn Women, had approached her about heading the 125 Years of Women at Penn celebration. She agreed, of course.
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How to succeed in business at Penn
Like 21 other people, I was in a high-tech auditorium at the end of an ancient, marble-floored corridor in the School of Medicine one hot day in June, listening to a fast-talking, funny man tell me how to market my ideas. The talker was Seth Godin, author of “Unleashing the Idea Virus,” the most downloaded e-book on the Internet. Deepak Chopra could have taken a tip or two from Godin, so motivational, so inspirational was he. Larger than life, too, and almost like life, but not quite.
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Commercial Child Sexual Exploitation: "The Most Hidden Form Of Child Abuse," Says Penn Professor
WASHINGTON -- Tens of thousands of U.S., Mexican and Canadian children and youths become victims of juvenile pornography, prostitution and trafficking each year. So significant is the problem that even most law-enforcement and child-welfare officials do not realize its scope.
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Penn's Palladino Honored By Academic Computing Group
PHILADELPHIA Michael Palladino, associate vice president of networking and telecommunications at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named the first recipient of the Leadership Award of the Association for Telecommunications Professionals in Higher Education. Addressing voice, data and video communications needs for higher education, the Association serves more than 800 institutions of higher education and 2,000 telecommunications professionals from the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
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Afaf I. Meleis, Ph. D., Fann, Named Dean Of Penn's School Of Nursing
PHILADELPHIA -- Afaf I. Meleis, PhD, FAAN, RN, an internationally acclaimed nurse and medical sociologist, has been named dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, Penn President Judith Rodin announced. She will begin her new position in January.
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Biologists Find A Gene Required For Tolerance Of Heavy Metals, Previously Known Only In Plants, In An Animal
PHILADELPHIA Biologists at the University of Pennsylvania have discovered the first biochemical pathway in animals responsible for the detoxification of heavy metals such as arsenic, mercury and cadmium. They have established that the enzyme phytochelatin synthase, which had previously been found only in plants and some fungi, is also present in some animals.
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Penn Engineers Develop Fuel Cell That Uses Liquid Diesel, The First Such Device To Run On A Widely Available Fuel
PHILADELPHIA Chemical engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a prototype fuel cell that the first to run on a readily available liquid fuel source, in this case ordinary diesel fuel. The work nudges fuel cells closer to viability, offering the promise of compact, portable power sources that offer much more bang for the buck than combustion engines or existing batteries.
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“Electing the President, 2000: The Insiders’ View”
Edited by Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Paul Waldman 240 pages, $17.95 paper The contest to elect the 43rd president of the United States was the costliest in the nation’s history. With the outcome uncertain for 36 days after the nation voted, it was also the country’s longest general election to date. “The election of 2000 will be scrutinized and debated for generations,” wrote the political staff of The Washington Post.
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Egypt shares its treasures
Behind the June 1 announcement of giant dinosaur bones discovered by two Penn doctoral students is a story of Egyptian connections, kids who were dreamers, and faculty with the goods. We’ll start with the bones, which Penn Ph.D. Josh Smith (Gr’01) and doctoral student Matt LaManna quarried in Egypt in 2000. The bones belong to a gargantuan new genus of plant-eater, Paralatitan. Picture a four-legged creature taking up most of College Green at 80 to 100 feet long and weighing 60 to 70 tons. The genus might have been the largest dinosaur to walk the earth.
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A Penn venture seeds its first tech business
You’ve got a project to complete today. You turn on your trusty personal computer, only to see the blue screen of death. Uh-oh. Your Windows got broken. Your drivers won’t drive. Your PC has become a useless hunk of metal. But don’t reformat your hard drive yet. There’s good news. Some University of Pennsylvania researchers have created and patented software to prevent problems like yours. Here’s the bad news. You can’t buy that software — yet.