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Recognizing Current Limitations, Scientists Begin Quests For A New Approach To Imaging Brain Cells' Activity
PHILADELPHIA Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are aiming to develop a novel imaging system that can capture snapshots of activity across large swaths of individual brain cells. Their interdisciplinary approach, supported by a new five-year, $1 million grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, could be a boon for neuroscientists hampered by the imperfect techniques now available for viewing the microscopic changes wrought neuron by neuron as the brain works.
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Computer Security Experts Say FBI's Internet Surveillance System Raises Concerns Over Privacy and Functionality
PHILADELPHIA An Internet wiretapping system developed by the FBI raises serious privacy and functionality concerns despite a favorable outside review, a group of prominent computer security experts says in a report to the U.S. Department of Justice. The group, which includes some of the top names in Internet security, says that previous analyses have overlooked potential legal and operational flaws with the FBI "Carnivore" system. Carnivore monitors Internet traffic, such as e-mail sent or received by suspected criminals or terrorists.
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In First Demonstrations of 'Tele-Immersion', Participants Many Miles Apart Feel as If They're Sitting in the Same Room
PHILADELPHIA By marrying telecommunications and technology similar to that used in 3D movies, computer scientists have orchestrated a session where participants sitting in different states feel as if theye chatting in the same room. This first successful demonstration of this technique, known as "tele-immersion," was accomplished by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Brown University and Advanced Network and Services, a non-profit firm in Armonk, N.Y.
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$27.5 Million Endowment from Annenberg Foundation to Fund Institute on Adolescent Risk at Penn's Annenberg Public Policy Center
PHILADELPHIA -- A $25 million endowment from the Annenberg Foundation of St. Davids, Pa., will be used to establish a new Institute for Adolescent Risk Communication at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center, according to an announcement today by Penn President Judith Rodin.
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Penn Senior Lipika Goyal Wins Rhodes Scholarship
PHILADELPHIA Lipika Goyal, a senior at the University of Pennsylvania, is among 32 American recipients of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarships for 2001, the Rhodes Scholarship Trust announced Saturday. She will spend two years studying at the University of Oxford in England, courtesy of the Rhodes Trust. Some 950 American students from 327 colleges and universities applied for this year Rhodes Scholarships, the oldest international study award available to Americans.
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Hughes Becomes First Historian to Receive an Honorary Doctorate from Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology
PHILADELPHIA Thomas P. Hughes, Ph.D., of the University of Pennsylvania has become the first historian and one of the few Americans to receive an honorary doctorate from the prestigious Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Hughes, Mellon Professor Emeritus in Penn Department of History and Sociology of Science, joined three other recipients at Stockholm City Hall on Nov. 10 in a lavish ceremony featuring men in white ties and tails, opera singers and cannons firing outside. Each of the four honorees received a silk top hat and a gold ring.
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Penn Law Professor Slated to Testify Before Special Session of the Florida Legislature
PHILADELPHIA Penn Law Professor Kim Lane Scheppele has been invited by lawyers for Vice President Al Gore to testify as an expert witness on the constitutionality of the Fla. Legislature picking its own slate of electors. The special session will convene on Mon. Dec.11, 2000 provided that the Florida Supreme Court doesn today turn down Gore bid for vote recounts in the state.
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Scientists Pinpoint a Protein Critical to the Function of the Ebola Virus, Offering Hope of Novel Drugs to Stop It
PHILADELPHIA Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine have identified a sequence of just four amino acids in a key viral protein that may be critical to the spread of the Ebola virus. Their findings, reported in the Dec. 5 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offer the promise of future treatments for Ebola outbreaks that now prove fatal for up to 90 percent of victims.
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University of Pennsylvania Professor Writes Book on the City in the 21st Century
PHILADELPHIA Planning for a New Century: the Regional Agenda by Jonathan Barnett is a new book that brings together leading thinkers in the fields of planning, urban design, education, welfare and housing to consider ways to solve the problems facing many communities.
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“Amritsar to Lahore: A Journey Across the India-Pakistan Border
Stephen Alter 232 pages, $24.95 Paper