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SAS Vice Dean appointed
Ramin Sedehi, M.P.A., was appointed Vice Dean for Finance and Administration in the School of Arts and Sciences, to be effective March 20. He will oversee matters of budget, facilities, computer and human resources, replacing Mike Mandl who left last semester to assume a vice presidency at Duke University, and replacing Interim Vice Dean Tom Stump from the School of Engineering and Applied Science, who will stay on until Sedehi arrives.
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Andrew March
You could probably call Andrew March (C’00) a citizen of the world. He’s lived on both sides of the Atlantic. He had studied five languages by the time he applied to Penn. His wife, Munhtuya Altangerel (C’99), is from Mongolia. And he’s spent much of his undergraduate career traveling to global hot spots — Northern Ireland, Palestine, Bosnia, Kosovo.
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New program shows Public Safety at work
Twenty members of the Penn and University City communities are getting an up-close-and-personal look this semester at how the University works to keep its students, faculty, staff and neighbors safe and secure. The 20 people are all participants in the Penn Public Safety Institute, a 12-week course that held its first meeting Jan. 19. It may be the first time that such a course was ever offered by a college police department, said Detective Commander Thomas L. King, who oversees the institute.
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Asthma research earns honor for grad student
Carla Keirns said the grant she just won will make life a little easier, even in the unique program she’s in that she said is designed to “keep her in school forever.” Keirns, an M.D. and Ph.D. student at the School of Medicine and the department of history and sociology of science, respectively, is one of the five graduate students selected this year to receive a grant for socially motivated and policy-oriented dissertations in children’s health. Every year, Johnson & Johnson gives the Woodrow Wilson Foundation $10,000 to administer the grants.
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Help for homebuyers
The Office of Community Housing offers more than incentives to buy in University City. OCH brown-bag seminars help you learn what you need to know when shopping for a new home or a mortgage, no matter where you plan to move. Each of the seminars below will be offered from noon to 1 p.m. and from 1 to 2 p.m.; bring your lunch. To register, visit www.upenn.edu/evp/communityhousing/events.html on the Web. For more information, call Bernadette Ramsey, outreach coordinator, at 215-573-9725.
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Better, faster, cheaper drugs
Jeffrey Winkler is into “making stuff,” as he put it. “Basically, what I do is develop new chemical reactions,” the professor of chemistry explained, “and then apply that to designing new ways to prepare substances of biological importance.” In other words, Winkler finds new and better ways of synthesizing drugs, including the anticancer drug Taxol and the drug Ritalin, used for treating hyperactive children.
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Off to Sundance
“World Cafe” host David Dye will spend the week of Valentine’s Day in Park City, Utah, broadcasting from the annual Sundance Music and Film Festival. Leading up to this special week are visits from several legendary performers: Thursday, Feb. 3 “New Country” artist Jim Lauderdale drops by to play music from “Onward Through It All”
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William H. Danforth Will Chair Independent Review of Oversight and Monitoring of Clinical Trials at the Institute for Human Gene Therapy at The University of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA --- William H. Danforth, M.D., chancellor emeritus and vice chair of the board of trustees at Washington University in St. Louis, will serve as chair of an independent review panel that will conduct a comprehensive review of oversight and monitoring of clinical trials at the Institute for Human Gene Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania, according to President Judith Rodin.
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Christopher H. Browne Makes $10 Million Gift to The University of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA - Christopher H. Browne, chairman of the Board of Overseers of the School of Arts and Sciences and a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, has made a gift of $10 million to the University, according to an announcement today by University President Judith Rodin. The gift will be used to fund five professorships to be known as the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professors in the School of Arts and Sciences.
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Statement in Response to FDA Action
PHILADELPHIA -- The Institute for Human Gene Therapy (IHGT) at the University of Pennsylvania was notified today (Jan. 21) by the FDA that the agency was suspending eight Investigational New Drug Applications (INDs) previously issued to IHGT and pursuant to which IHGT was conducting five active clinical trials in cystic fibrosis, mesothelioma, melanoma and breast cancer, muscular dystrophy and glioma. In its letter, the FDA said that it took this action in light of its recent inspection related to the OTC clinical trial.