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Prize-winning author, critic, professor and leading public intellectual Edward Said drew a standing-room-only crowd when he addressed his Houston Hall audience two weeks ago. But some attendees didn’t get quite what they expected.
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It is being called the closest presidential race in recent history, but somehow our results came back overwhelmingly one-sided. When it comes to voicing their opinions on the next president, Penn students are not shy. Kevin Rodin, College ’01 I will vote for Gore, mostly because I don’t like Bush. He’s not smart enough to be president.
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A small fishing village in Alaska was not part of Regina Oliver’s (Nu’98,GNu’99) plan when she graduated as a family nurse practitioner from the School of Nursing. But when the job offer came in, she was game. In September, the 44-year-old and her dog, Crissy, headed north to work with another nurse practitioner and three community health aids. A week after her arrival in September, she began writing us about her experiences via e-mail and a hand-written note. — LR
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PHILADELPHIA The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has awarded a $10.5 million grant that aims to establish the Philadelphia region as a high-tech hotbed of nanotechnology an atom-by-atom approach to building products that many scientists believe has the potential to inspire a technological revolution. The grant, from the Pennsylvania Technology Investment Authority (PTIA), establishes a Regional Nanotechnology Center with the goal of remaking the Delaware Valley as "Nanotech Valley."
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Leif Finkel, Ph.D., professor of bioengineering, has received a $1 million award from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The award will support an interdisciplinary project including Penn faculty from bioengineering, neuroscience and physics. Co-principal investigators are Kwabena Boahen, Institute for Medicine and Engineering (IME) and assistant professor of bioengineering; Diego Contreras and Brian Salzberg, neuroscience; and Arjun Yodh, IME and professor of physics. Supporting scientists are George Gerstein and Larry Palmer from neuroscience.
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What does it sound like when Syrians and Israelis, Serbs and Croats sit down together and play? It sounds marvelous. And it just might sound like hope.
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The University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center (UPCC) was awarded $26 million from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) — the largest National Institutes of Health grant ever received by Penn. The five-year Core Grant is 62 percent larger than last year’s award to the UPCC, which is dedicated to cancer research, control and prevention.
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Promises, promises. The candidates hand them out with increasing frequency as Election Day approaches. But some members of the electorate have received no promises this year. In a booming economy, poverty in America remains overlooked by many.
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To get a better understanding of the origins and causes of schizophrenia, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Bruce Turetsky and colleagues in the School of Medicine followed their noses and sniffed out some intriguing information. Building on research that is producing clues about how schizophrenia affects the brain, Turetsky used a smell test developed at Penn to study how well schizophrenics could identify scents and objects based on their smell.
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Veteran blues-rocker Joe Cocker pays a call on “The World Cafe” Oct. 27 to promote his new release “No Ordinary World,” and Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks also strut new stuff during these next two weeks. Here’s the full schedule. Thursday, Oct. 26 Whiskeytown front man Ryan Adams drops by the Cafe studios for an interview and performance featuring music from his debut solo album, “Heartbreaker”