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Penn Science Cafe Presents: The Dark Side of the Moon Mission, With Dr. Ravi Sheth
WHO: Dr. Ravi Sheth, associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, School of Arts and Sciences, University of PennsylvaniaWHAT: The Penn Science Cafe lecture series, free and open to the public, takes science out of the laboratory and treats it to a night on the town. The Cafe is your chance to ask a leading expert your questions about science.WHERE: Bubble House, 3404 Sansom Streeet, PhiladelphiaWHEN: Tuesday, Oct. 23, 6 p.m.
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Franklin Field Press Box
Photo credit: University Archives Early last century, sportswriters at Franklin Field had it tough: They had to dictate stories, by phone, from an open-air press box atop the old stadium’s single-deck wooden stands.
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Q&A: Thomas Childers
Photo credit: Candace diCarlo Thomas Childers’ career as a historian started out pretty much how he expected. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1976, took a job at Penn that same year and, by 1983, had already published his first book, “The Nazi Voter.” A follow-up tome, “The Formation of the Nazi Constituency,” came four years later.
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Penn Scientists Receive Five-Year, $2.5 Million Grant to Study Climate Change in Mongolia
PHILADELPHIA - A team of ecologists and evolutionary biologists from the University of Pennsylvania has received a five-year, approximately $2.5 million grant to examine the ecological and societal consequences of increased grazing and rising temperatures in the Lake Hvsgl region of northern Mongolia.
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A Penn Business-Opportunity Panel Discussion: "Nanotechnology: Small Science, Big Business"
WHAT: Penn's Executive Master's in Technology ManagementProgram has gathered experts in nanotechnology commercialization and technology transfer to discuss nanotechnology ventures and funding. Topics include the role of IP, market pull, funding, university research and collaboration and elements for success of a start-up. Penn's EMTM program is a two-year executive program based in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and co-sponsored by Penn's Wharton School.
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Stem Cell Nuclei Are Soft 'Hard Drives,' Penn Study Finds
PHILADELPHIA- Biophysicists at the University of Pennsylvania have discovered that the nuclei of human stem cells are particularly soft and flexible, rather than hard, making it easier for stem cells to migrate through the body and to adopt different shapes, but ultimately to put human genes in the correct nuclear "sector" for proper access and expression.
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Landmark Modeling Study at Penn Reveals How Ferroelectric Computer Memory Works
PHILADELPHIA -- A collaboration of University of Pennsylvania chemists and engineers has performed multi-scale modeling of ferroelectric domain walls and provided a new theory of behavior for domain-wall motion, the "sliding wall" that separates ferroelectric domains and makes high-density ferroelectric RAM (FeRAM) possible.
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Penn Professor Named to Leadership Role in New Neuroscience and Law Project
PHILADELPHIA - Stephen Morse, a University of Pennsylvania law and psychiatry professor, is among scientists, legal scholars, jurists and philosophers who will help integrate new developments in neuroscience into the U.S. legal system.
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Hal Mackin
The Current Staff Photo credit: Mark Stehle WHO HE IS: Manager of Levy Tennis Pavilion and a tennis pro. TIME AT PENN: In his current position, since 1990, though he’s worked as a tennis pro since 1980.
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With $2.3M grant, profs take aim at lung cancer
Cigarette smoke contains nearly 4,000 chemicals, some of them highly carcinogenic, and so doctors have long known that smoking greatly increases the risk of lung cancer. In fact, nearly 90 percent of all lung cancer cases are caused by cigarettes. What scientists don’t know, however, is why only 1 in 10 smokers—and not a much higher percentage—actually develop the disease.