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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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Presidential Committee Will Review Research Using Human Subjects at The University of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA -- University of Pennsylvania Provost Robert L. Barchi, M.D., Ph.D., will chair a 10-person committee of distinguished members of the Penn faculty named today (Jan. 14) by University President Judith Rodin to review "...carefully and completely..." all aspects of Penn's research using human subjects.
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Penn Names New Vice President for Finance
PHILADELPHIA -- Craig Carnaroli, Director of the Health Care Finance Department at Merrill Lynch & Co., has been named Vice President for Finance and Treasurer at the University of Pennsylvania by Executive Vice President John A. Fry.
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University of Pennsylvania Professor Ian McHarg Awarded The Science and Technology Foundation's Japan Prize
PHILADELPHIA--Ian L. McHarg, an Emeritus Professor of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania, has been awarded the Japan Prize in city planning. He and his wife will travel to Tokyo in April 2000 to receive the award.
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Penn Police to Launch New Public Safety Institute
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania Division of Public Safety is accepting applications for enrollment in the new Penn Public Safety Institute (PPSI), an intensive, 12-week course designed to introduce the University community to Penn's extensive public safety services and programs.
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People do make the difference
Flo Griffin, manager of finance and administration in Public Safety, donates blood, time and money to the Red Cross and numerous organizations serving children. She was also a beneficiary of the Red Cross’ work during Hurricane Floyd, when she had to stay in a Red Cross shelter in Darby. “Experiencing that first-hand gave me a heightened sense of awareness” of what the Red Cross does, she said. She has since received a pin for donating more than four gallons of blood, and is well on the way to her fifth.
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A better Viagra?
Who would have thought impotence could ever be so chic? Once a subject to be discussed only in hushed tones, the release of the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra has made impotence a hot topic. Impotence affects half of the male population over 40, according to a 1994 study. Now it seems a promising new treatment may be underway. David Christianson, Edmund and Louise Kahn Professor of Chemistry, and three collaborators have published a paper in the Nov. 1 edition of the journal Nature Structural Biology on a potential impotence drug that may work where Viagra does not.