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Another Packard
Leif Finkel, Ph.D., professor of bioengineering, has received a $1 million award from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The award will support an interdisciplinary project including Penn faculty from bioengineering, neuroscience and physics. Co-principal investigators are Kwabena Boahen, Institute for Medicine and Engineering (IME) and assistant professor of bioengineering; Diego Contreras and Brian Salzberg, neuroscience; and Arjun Yodh, IME and professor of physics. Supporting scientists are George Gerstein and Larry Palmer from neuroscience.
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One world, one orchestra
What does it sound like when Syrians and Israelis, Serbs and Croats sit down together and play? It sounds marvelous. And it just might sound like hope.
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Big bucks from NCI
The University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center (UPCC) was awarded $26 million from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) — the largest National Institutes of Health grant ever received by Penn. The five-year Core Grant is 62 percent larger than last year’s award to the UPCC, which is dedicated to cancer research, control and prevention.
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Pols have a poverty of ideas
Promises, promises. The candidates hand them out with increasing frequency as Election Day approaches. But some members of the electorate have received no promises this year. In a booming economy, poverty in America remains overlooked by many.
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Smells like schizophrenia
To get a better understanding of the origins and causes of schizophrenia, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Bruce Turetsky and colleagues in the School of Medicine followed their noses and sniffed out some intriguing information. Building on research that is producing clues about how schizophrenia affects the brain, Turetsky used a smell test developed at Penn to study how well schizophrenics could identify scents and objects based on their smell.
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New stuff from old faves
Veteran blues-rocker Joe Cocker pays a call on “The World Cafe” Oct. 27 to promote his new release “No Ordinary World,” and Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks also strut new stuff during these next two weeks. Here’s the full schedule. Thursday, Oct. 26 Whiskeytown front man Ryan Adams drops by the Cafe studios for an interview and performance featuring music from his debut solo album, “Heartbreaker”
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University of Pennsylvania's Alan G. MacDiarmid and Former Penn Physicist Alan J. Heeger are Among Three Winners of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
PHILADELPHIA Alan G. MacDiarmid, Ph.D., Blanchard Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, is one of three recipients of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Sharing the honor are former Penn faculty member Alan J. Heeger, Ph.D., now at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and Hideki Shirakawa, Ph.D., of the University of Tsukuba in Japan. The work underlying the award which showed that plastics can be made to conduct electricity was carried out at Penn in the late 1970s, when Drs. MacDiarmid and Heeger were both on the Penn faculty.
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University of Pennsylvania, Fannie Mae, Trammell Crow, University of Sciences in Philadelphia and First Union National Bank Announce New Partnership to Develop Rental Housing Opportunities in University City
PHILADELPHIA, PA -- The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) and the University of the Sciences of Philadelphia today joined Fannie Mae (FNM/NYSE), the nation largest source of financing for home mortgages, and the Trammell Crow Company to announce an innovative new partnership to preserve and develop moderate-cost rental housing opportunities for the entire University City community. "The Partnership for Quality Housing Choices in University City" will focus on improving management and maintenance of rental units.
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The Constitution is in the hands of lawyers
Ah, the four branches of government: executive, legislative, judicial — and lawyers. Lawyers? Okay, so they’re not mentioned explicitly in the Constitution. But according to Walter E. Dellinger III’s Sept. 26 lecture, entitled “The Supreme Court and the Presidency,” the world of lawyers — whether it be lawyerly thought processes guiding presidents’ actions or attorneys litigating behind the scenes — exerts a strong influence on the way the country is run.
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Little tiny hairs are way cool
A piece of lint may hold the key to faster computers, cooler motors and more heat-resistant aircraft. But first, scientists have to get the lint in line. Needless to say, this is no ordinary lint. The stuff we’re talking about here contains hundreds of thousands of nanotubes — cylinders of pure carbon about 1/10,000th the width of a human hair. Scientists experimenting with these tiny tubes have already discovered their incredible strength and their superior electrical conductivity. Now, Penn scientists have found that they’re excellent heat conductors, too.