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Penn Team: Three-Way Control of Fetal Heart-Cell Proliferation Could Help Regenerate Cardiac Cells
Heart muscle cells do not normally replicate in adult tissue, but multiply with abandon during development. This is why the loss of heart muscle after a heart attack is so dire—you can’t grow enough new heart muscle to make up for the loss.
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Penn Creative Writing Lecturer Max Apple Wins Pew Fellowship
PHILADELPHIA –- Writer Max Apple, a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania and longtime member of Penn’s Kelly Writers House community, has won a 2010 Pew Fellowship in the Arts. He is among 12 Philadelphia-area artists awarded the $60,000 fellowships.
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Nominate a co-worker for the Models of Excellence Awards
Each year, the Models of Excellence Awards recognize the accomplishments and commitment of Penn staff members who have demonstrated outstanding leadership, creativity and innovation in their daily work.
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Wharton School to Host 2011 Global Alumni Forum in San Francisco
Philadelphia and San Francisco – The Wharton School announced that, for the first time in the history of the Wharton Global Alumni Forums, the School next year will combine the three regional Forums into a single event, to be held in San Francisco on June 23-24, 2011. We are excited to hold this year's Forum in conjunction with the 10th Anniversary of the establishment of Wharton | San Francisco, our West Coast campus and home to a thriving MBA Program for Executives, as well as an entrepreneurship program and non-degree programs for executives.
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Become a mentor to a West Philadelphia High School student
A new Penn mentoring program with West Philadelphia High School offers University faculty and staff the opportunity to advise and counsel local students.
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Penn Science Café explores one biomolecule at a time
Everyone from hardcore material scientists to "Jersey Shore" celebrities benefit from nanotechnology, the next great field of engineering expected to change everything from drug delivery to the way we apply sunscreen. But actually understanding this world-changing field of science is a bit more difficult than it appears, since scientists themselves have only begun to scratch the surface of its possibilities.
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Get reacquainted with Penn perks at Employee Resource and Commuter Fair
For new employees, it’s a must-do and for those who have worked at Penn for some time, the Employee Resource and Commuter Fair is a great way to get reacquainted with everything the University has to offer. The fair will take place on Monday, Oct. 11, from noon to 2 p.m. at the Bodek Lounge in Houston Hall. Admission is free and all staff and faculty are invited to drop by.
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Playwright Moises Kaufman gives public talk as Penn's Platt House Theatre Fellow
As part of the 2010-2011 Platt House Theatre Fellows program, award-winning playwright and director Moises Kaufman— perhaps best known for writing “The Laramie Project,” about the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard, an openly gay college student who was beaten and left to die lashed to a fence in Laramie, Wyo.—will give a public talk at the
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Penn Institute for Urban Research Signs Partnership Agreement With UN-Habitat’s World Urban Campaign
Today, Dr. Eugénie Birch, co-director of the Penn Institute for Urban Research (IUR), signed a partnership agreement with UN-HABITAT, the UN agency that focuses on urban affairs. The agreement certified the role that the University of Pennsylvania and Penn IUR will play in the World Urban Campaign, which aims to unite the public and private sectors together with civil society, to elevate sustainable urbanization to the top of the agenda for governments around the world.
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Playwright Moises Kaufman speaks at Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Ei-ichi Negishi, who earned his doctorate in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1963, is one of three scientists sharing this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis. Negishi is the H. C. Brown Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University, grew up in Japan and received his bachelor's degree in 1958 from the University of Tokyo before coming to Penn in 1960.