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Penn’s Kelly Writers House Announces Spring 2011 Fellows
PHILADELPHIA – Three acclaimed writers have been tapped to serve as Spring 2011 Fellows at the University of Pennsylvania’s Kelly Writers House. Novelist and non-fiction writer Susan Cheever will visit Penn’s campus Feb. 14-15, playwright Edward Albee March 21-22 and poetry critic Marjorie Perloff April 25-26 for evening readings and informal teaching sessions with young writers and aspiring writers and writer-critics.
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Philadelphia Middle School Students to Launch Power Boats and Rocket Cars at Penn’s Innoworks
WHO:Penn student volunteers and their middle-school partners will launch rockets and power boats as part of a week-long summer course designed to get young people excited about science and technology. WHAT:
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Analysis of Press Freedom Cites Need to Continue Evolving, Incorporating New Technologies
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Organizations entrusted with the evaluation of press freedom need to evolve to keep pace with new technologies for disseminating information, such as cell phones and other mobile communication devices, as well as evaluate their methodologies to ensure their ratings systems are valid and useful.
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Swimming Upstream: Molecular Approaches to Better Understand Male Infertility
Male infertility is a common medical problem, affecting millions of men in the United States annually. Its causes include an inability to make productive sperm. Now, using yeast as a model organism, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine are beginning to identify the molecular signals that could in part underlie that problem.Click here to view the full release.
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Genome Comparison of Ants Establishes New Model Species for Molecular Research
By comparing two species of ants, Shelley Berger, PhD, the Daniel S. Och University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and colleagues Danny Reinberg, PhD, New York University, and Juergen Liebig, PhD, Arizona State University, have established an important new avenue of research for epigenetics -- the study of how the expression or suppression of particular genes affects an organism's characteristics, development, and even behavior.
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Penn Study Sheds Light on How the Brain Transitions Between Sleep and Awake States Under Anesthesia
Despite the fact that an estimated 25 million patients per year in the U.S. undergo surgeries using general anesthesia, scientists have only been able to hypothesize exactly how anesthetics interact with the central nervous system. They previously thought that the processes of “going under” and waking up from anesthesia affected the brain in the same way.
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Penn Law School and Hong Kong University Law School Announce Degree Exchange Program
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania Law School and The Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong have established a Master of Laws degree student exchange program.
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UMR Coalition Praises Recovery Act’s Investment Impact on Science, Innovation and Technology
PHILADELPHIA –- A White House report analyzing the impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on innovation, science and technology has drawn praise from United for Medical Research. UMR is a coalition of research institutions, patient and health advocates and private industry seeking steady increases in federal funding for the National Institutes of Health.
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University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann to Welcome Incoming Freshmen
WHO: Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania WHAT: Move-in for Penn's Class of 2014 WHEN: Sept. 2, 2010, 10:30 a.m. WHERE: Hill College House
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University of Pennsylvania-Led Study Identifies New Genetic Risk Factor for Lou Gehrig’s Disease
PHILADELPHIA –- An international study led by biologists and neuroscientists from the University of Pennsylvania has identified a new genetic risk factor for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease.