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PHILADELPHIA --- The Institute for Human Gene Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania today (Feb. 14) filed its response to Inspectional Observations made by the Food and Drug Administration on Jan. 18, 2000, as the result of its investigation into the death of Jesse Gelsinger, an 18-year-old with a rare metabolic disease who was participating in an experimental gene therapy trial for the disease known as ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) deficiency, an inherited disorder that in its most common form causes death in affected newborn males due to a genetic defect in the liver.
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PHILADELPHIA --- Patrick T. Harker, a distinguished member of the faculty of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania for more than 15 years, has been named dean of the school, according to an announcement today (Feb. 8) by University President Judith Rodin. The appointment will become effective upon confirmation by the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on Feb. 18, 2000.
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Raymond Davis Jr., Ph.D., Research Professor of Astronomy, along with Masatoshi Koshiba of the University of Tokyo, has been awarded the Wolf Foundation Prize in Physics for 2000. They were cited “for their pioneering observations of astronomical phenoma by detection of neutrinos, thus creating the emerging field of neutrino astronomy.” The $100,000 prize will be awarded by the President of Israel in a special ceremony in the Knesset in May.
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You’re guaranteed to have a bang-up time at the University of Pennsylvania Museum’s 19th annual Chinese New Year Celebration Feb. 5.
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The National Institutes of Health awarded a $6.5 million grant to the Medical Center to establish a center to improve treatment of autoimmune diseases. Mohamad Rostami, M.D., Ph.D., professor of neurology and medicine, will be the director of the new Penn Center of Excellence for Autoimmune Disease, one of three NIH Centers of Excellence for auto-immune diseases in the country.
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An elderly man fell at 36th Street and Walnut. The day was Jan. 25, the day snow shut down the University. The weather nearly shut down the old man as well. After struggling across Walnut, he could go no further. He waved for help. Nobody stopped. But then along came Armenio Silva, in his snow plow. The old man knocked desperately at his window. Heigh ho, Silva to the rescue. He called 911. When snow traps some folks at home baking cookies, a hardy group of workers keeps the campus running.
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Joseph Turow, professor of communication, on how some food companies have come to de-emphasize where the products they sell come from. Borden officials say Elsie’s still around. (The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan. 19)
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If Teresa Maddox and Shamara Davis become novelists or literary critics someday, they’ll have Stephanie Perkins-Lane to thank. Okay, that may be stretching it a bit. But in her role as a Penn VIPS mentor, Perkins-Lane is exposing the two Sulzberger Middle School students to both the worlds of work and academic life while providing them with emotional support and encouragement.
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John Dixon Hunt 288 pages, 138 black-and-white illustrations, $35 cloth Gardening is usually thought of as a practical activity, but a new book by John Dixon Hunt, professor of landscape architecture and chair of the department of landscape architecture and regional planning, explores the conceptual basis of garden art. The book takes a large-scale view of the garden in human culture and treats the garden as the epitome of place-making — or what is nowadays termed landscape architecture.
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Think of the word “scientist” and the word “mad” seems to pop up unbidden onto the mental viewing screen. Dr. Frankenstein. Dr. Strangelove. Dr. Evil. That’s exactly the image of scientists that a new program for middle school girls wants to combat. “The stereotype of wild-haired, wild-eyed people doing science is just that — a stereotype,” said Christine Massey, director of Pennlincs, an educational outreach program of the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science. “Lots of interesting people all over the world do science, not just socially inept nerds.”