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NIH gives Grossman a Javits; McHarg wins Japan Prize
Robert I. Grossman, M.D., Chief of Neuroradiology and Professor of Radiology, Neurosurgery and Neurology at the Medical Center, has been awarded the Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award by the National Institutes of health. The nearly $4 million award will support Grossman’s ongoing research on neurological disorders in multiple sclerosis patients, enabling him “to study a cohort of patients over a long period of time.” Grossman is one of only 10 Javits Award recipients this year.
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Hip-hop heritage
Hip-hop may have evolved from the party music of young African Americans in the South Bronx, but its roots go all the way back to Africa. And now one of Philadelphia’s most talented hip-hop dance ensembles has chronicled its history.
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Human testing
A faculty committee to review all aspects of research using human subjects at Penn was formed Friday. The 10-member group plans to address risks that research may pose and “to protect volunteers in the clinical trials we conduct,” President Judith Rodin stated. Provost Robert L. Barchi, M.D., Ph.D., will chair the committee.
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Students hear tales of e-venture
If you’re going to do business on Internet time, you’d better be first with your hot new idea. Then you’d better be prepared to hold your breath until you turn blue waiting for everyone else to find out how brilliant it is. But once that happens, you’re golden, and it will be hard for others to knock you off your perch. That, in a nutshell, is the advice three Wharton MBA grads gave an audience of would-be e-capitalists at the Nov. 30 seminar “Entrepreneurial Opportunities in E-Commerce: Wharton Success Stories.”
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A King-size commemoration
Although Martin Luther King Jr. Day was Monday, the University’s annual commemoration of his legacy is not a one-day affair. This year the King commemorative organizers have used the occasion to schedule a number of forums, workshops, lectures and discussions that examine the state of civil rights today, King’s legacy and how best to realize his goals. Upcoming King commemorative events are listed below. For further information about the annual commemoration, call the African American Resource Center at 215-898-0104.
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Plants to eat toxic waste
Coming to an EPA Superfund site near you may be a ferocious plant that devours heavy metals. Cadmium! Arsenic! Mercury! Outta here! That plant would be a designer plant, with key designers here at Penn’s Plant Science Institute. Professor of Biology Philip Rea, Ph.D., headed the team that identified, cloned and patented the one gene required for plants to survive in toxic environments loaded with cadmium, arsenic and mercury. And the team discovered the way the gene does its job.
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Vintage Western
“The World Cafe’s” lineup these next two weeks has a decidedly Western flavor, with featured performances by Asleep at the Wheel, Denise Franke and New Grange. But the Cafe folks are never the types to stay in one place long, as the rest of the schedule should make clear. Thursday, Jan. 20 Rock n’ roll Renaissance man Marshall Crenshaw talks and performs music from his latest album, “#447”
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“The New Working Woman’s Guide to Retirement Planning: Saving and Investing Now for a Secure Future”
Martha Priddy Patterson 320 pages, $19.95 paper A recent review in USA Today put Martha Priddy Patterson’s goal succinctly: “‘The New Working Woman’s Guide to Retirement Planning’ is a wake-up call for women.” Patterson, director of benefits analysis for Deloitte and Touche, wrote this straightforward and easy-to-follow guide to retirement planning for women because she noted several facts: Only 21 percent of working women over 40 expect to receive, or are receiving, retirement benefits.
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From Walnut Street to Wall Street
Since last spring, Sound Horse Technologies has been marketing a better horseshoe. Based on the work of the School of Veterinary Medicine’s Dr. Robert Sigafoos and others, the shoe is glued onto a horse’s foot rather than being nailed on, and it prevents horses from going lame. The fledgling company is doing well. “The reason the business is so successful is because I’m not directly involved,” Sigafoos said. “The inventing part is the easy part. Getting an idea from being an invention to getting it into the marketplace takes the real knowledge.”
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Internet access to change
With 14,000 people clamoring for its 1,080 modems, the University’s modem pool is “facing technological obsolescence.” That was the message Jim O’Donnell, Vice Provost of Information Systems and Computing and Professor of Classical Studies, told a near-capacity crowd gathered at College Hall Dec. 1 to discuss a proposal to close down its modem pool by July 1, 2001.