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From school to lab in two years
The Wistar Institute had a nagging headache: It had a hard time keeping research technicians. So it turned to the Community College of Philadelphia for a cure. And now six CCP students are on their way to careers in biomedical research. All this was made possible by the creation of the Biomedical Technician Training Program, a two-year program that prepares CCP science students for careers as research technicians.
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Business 12, academe 3
As freshmen trickled into “How To Start Your Own Business,” we mused that perhaps punctuality should have been the first lesson. But the dozen or so students who showed up Sept. 5 for the overflow section of orientation’s most-requested session settled in right away. “Who do you think wrote the laws of American capitalism?” local entrepreneur Lawrence Gelburd (WG’91) exclaimed. “Poor people? Noooo. People with money? People who run corporations? Yeeaah! C’mon, Jack! Let’s make a deal! That’s what bankruptcy law is all about.”
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John Dixon Hunt Awarded Cultural Honor by the Cultural Ministry of France
PHILADELPHIA Prof. John Dixon Hunt, professor of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named a member of the prestigious Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier Des Artes et Lettres) by the Cultural Ministry of France for his exceptional endeavors in landscape architecture.
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Leslie Kruhly Named Secretary of the University of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA, PA -- Leslie Kruhly, associate director of development and special events at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, will become Secretary of the University on September 18, Penn President Judith Rodin has announced.
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Chalk Up Another Coup for Carbon Nanotubes: Penn Scientists Find the Tiny Cylinders of Pure Carbon May Top All Other Known Materials in Heat Conduction
PHILADELPHIA New research from the University of Pennsylvania indicates that carbon nanotubes, filaments of pure carbon less than one ten-thousandth the width of a human hair, may be the best heat-conducting material man has ever known. The findings suggest that these exotic strands, already heralded for their unparalleled strength and unique ability to adopt the electrical properties of either semiconductors or perfect metals, may someday also find applications as miniature heat conduits in a host of devices and materials.
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James Corner Named Chair of Landscape at University of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA James Corner, associate professor of landscape architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named chair of the Landscape Architecture Department and is also the recipient of the prestigious 2000 DaimlerChrysler Award. Prof. Corner, an internationally known designer and theorist, is the first landscape architect chosen for the DaimlerChrysler Award, which recognizes and promotes innovative design.
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Time to start thinking about college
High-school juniors and seniors — and their parents — face a bewildering array of choices and requirements as they negotiate the path to the college of their choice. What are the must-take courses? How important are extracurricular activities, test scores, essays, recommendations and interviews? The folks who know the answers are willing to share them with you, no matter what college your children want to attend.
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Anthony Santomero
When Britain’s Monty Python comedy troupe wrote, “Everyone must hanker for the butchness of a banker/ It’s accountancy that makes the world go ’round,” they probably could not have envisioned a time when millions of dollars of assets vanish in a day just because Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan made some off-hand remark. But that time has come. And with it, the Federal Reserve System — the nation’s central bank, and an institution that most people once paid little attention to — has become a major player in the national economy.
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Government to the rescue. Not.
Two former mayors staged a bipartisan lovefest at Irvine Auditorium July 31, but a prominent critic of one of them managed to get in a few zingers. At a panel discussion on “The Future of the City,” Philadelphia’s Ed Rendell, now general chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and Indianapolis’ Stephen Goldsmith, now George W. Bush’s chief domestic policy advisor, both noted that cities have come to rely more on their own resources in staging their revivals.
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They got connections — and T-shirts
I spent a sweltering June Monday in search of techno-geeks, and discovered that the taped-glasses-and-pocket-protector stereotype is passé. Instead, by their Palm Pilots shall ye know them. Actually, I didn’t have to search too hard. More than 300 of them, from some 60-odd colleges and universities throughout North America, had descended upon Penn from June 23 to 27 for the ResNet 2000 conference.