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PenNetWorks Engages Philadelphia's Business And Entrepreneur Communities
PHILADELPHIA--Redleaf Group, Inc. and P2B, Ventures Inc., a subsidiary of The University of Pennsylvania, invite entrepreneurs to an open house for to learn more about PenNetWorks (www.pennetworks.com). PenNetworks enables early stage entrepreneurs to launch and prepare their ventures for first-round funding. PenNetWorks is a pre-seed business accelerator serving the Delaware Valley that is o wned by P2B and managed by the Redleaf Group, Inc., a privately held technology operating company.
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Penn Establishes Genomics Institute; Invests Over $75 Million In University-wide Genomics Initiatives
University of Pennsylvania President Judith Rodin and Provost Robert Barchi today announced the establishment of a new Genomics Institute that will spearhead future development in this critical new area. Professor of Biology David Roos has been named Director of the Institute. This initiative comes at a time when many schools and departments at Penn have made genomics research a priority, including the Departments of Biology and Genetics, and the new Cancer Genomics Program of The Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute [AFCRI] at the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center.
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Collaboration Between Penn Chemist And Secret Service Points The Way To Improved Gathering Of Fingerprints
PHILADELPHIA What do you get when you cross an organic chemist with the U.S. Secret Service? In at least one case, such a partnership has resulted in a means of developing fingerprints at crime scenes that less damaging to evidence, more sensitive and less expensive for law enforcement agencies. The class of chemicals the team ultimately fingered, known as indanediones, recently received a U.S. patent, and a European company has obtained a non-exclusive license to the technology.
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Tony Kushner To Be 2001 Kelly Writers House Fellow At Penn
PHILADELPHIA In a program designed to connect undergraduate students with accomplished writers, award-winning playwright Tony Kushner will be the first 2001 Kelly Writers House Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Kushner is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize and many other awards for his seven-hour, two-part Broadway production of Angels in America. The other 2001 Fellows will be David Sedaris in March and June Jordan in April.
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“When I started in Wharton it was very, very scary and it was very difficult to feel that I was supposed to be there.”
The same Lisa Lord who served as mistress of ceremonies at last month’s Martin Luther King commemorative ceremony on campus claims she used to be shy.
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Penn Receives $20 Million Gift For University Priorities In Financial Aid, Student Life and Faculty Support
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania has received a $20 million gift from Say Yes to Education, Inc. that will provide for its priorities in student life, faculty support and financial aid, according to an announcement today by Penn President Judith Rodin.
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“NGOs and Human Rights: Promise and Performance”
Edited by Claude E. Welch, Jr. 408 pages, $49.95 cloth While states remain the major protectors — and abusers — of human rights, nongovernmental organizations [NGOs] such as Amnesty International have emerged as central players in the promotion of human rights around the world.
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Publicity, good science meet on Web
It is often said that genius goes unrecognized in its own time. It is also often said that giants are unrecognized in their home towns. And sure enough, both of these clichés surfaced as two world-renowned architects were honored in their home town Jan. 18. Robert Venturi (Hon’80), one of the architects, invoked the first cliché. “Quite often, the greatest artists in history are not recognized in their time. This concerns me. But I see that we are still controversial, and this makes me feel better.”
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Service, justice mix
The University closed down for Martin Luther King Day for the first time ever this year. But in keeping with the national holiday’s theme of service, hundreds of community-minded Penn people spent the day on volunteer projects organized by the MLK Holiday Committee and at an annual commemorative program. The holiday committee’s three service projects — training tutors for the Philadelphia Reads program, painting banners with quotes from King, and a spruce-up project at Heston Elementary School — drew more than 220 participants.
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Campus club nurtures Hollywood hopefuls
Penn students with a yen for the film business have created a club where they can meet each other, with an eye towards giving each other a boost when they get out to the Left Coast after graduation. Hello, it’s the Hollywood Club, now in its second year on campus. “I thought it was a shame that we had a lot of people going out there [to Hollywood], and didn’t know there were people from Penn who were already there,” said club founder Josh Rosenberg (C’01), who is applying to screenwriting graduate programs in Los Angeles for the fall.