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Seven in School of Veterinary Medicine Honored With Teaching Awards
Seven faculty members in the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine are recipients of 2010 teaching awards.
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Rescuing Fruit Flies from Alzheimer’s Disease
Investigators have found that fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) males -- in which the activity of an Alzheimer’s disease protein is reduced by 50 percent -- show impairments in learning and memory as they age. What’s more, the researchers were able to prevent the age-related deficits by treating the flies with drugs such as lithium, or by genetic manipulations that reduced nerve-cell signaling.Click here to view the full release.
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Penn Researchers Discover New Role for Master Regulator in Cell Metabolism, Response to Stress
AMP-activated protein kinase, or AMPK, is a master regulator protein of metabolism that is conserved from yeast to humans. When a cell is low on fuel, AMPK shuts down processes that use energy and turns on processes that produce energy.Biologists have been studying how AMPK works for several decades and know that once it is activated, AMPK turns on a large number of genes by passing the "make more energy" message through numerous signaling cascades in the cell. What was not known, until now, was that AMPK also works via an epigenetic mechanism to slow down or stop cell growth.
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Federal Grant Will Enable Netter Center’s Nutrition Program to Expand Service to More High School Students
PHILADELPHIA -- The Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative, a program of the Netter Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania, can now expand its mission, thanks to a $900,000 federal grant.
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Animation and sculpture by PennDesign professor at Philadelphia Museum of Art
Courtesy of Joshua Mosley and Donald Young Gallery Two mixed media animation stills from Joshua Mosley's 2010 installation, "International." Two historical figures who never met in real life have been brought together in a Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition.
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East Coast Exclusive from China: "Secrets of the Silk Road"
With graceful eyelashes, long flaxen hair and serene expression, the "Beauty of Xiaohe" seems to have just softly fallen to sleep-yet she last closed her eyes nearly 4,000 years ago. She was found, and excavated, in 2003, one of hundreds of spectacularly preserved mummies buried in the harsh desert sands of the vast Tarim Basin, in the Far Western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.
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Penn’s Scotty Williams Named Golfer of the Year; Nine Other Penn Students Also Named to All-Area Teams
PHILADELPHIA -- Scotty Williams, a student at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named Golfer of the Year in the Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Stars annual selection. In addition, nine other Penn student-athletes were named to All-Area teams. They were selected by a vote of the members of the Philadelphia Area Sports Information Directors Association.Williams was joined on the All-Area Men’s Golf team by fellow Penn student Chance Pipitone.
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University of Pennsylvania Law School Groundbreaking
WHO: Michael Fitts, Penn Law School deanSheila Kennedy, Kennedy & Violich ArchitectureFrano Violich, Kennedy & Violich ArchitecturePaul Haaga, Penn Law Board of Overseers chairmanPaul Levy, Campaign for Penn Law chairmanOsagie Imasogie, Penn Law Board of Overseers memberPerry Golkin, Penn Law Board of Overseers memberWHEN:
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Penn Law School Announces Four Recipients of 2010 Teaching Awards
PHILADELPHIA – Four teachers in the University of Pennsylvania Law School have received 2010 teaching awards.Matthew Adler, the Leon Meltzer Professor of Law, has been honored with the A. Leo Levin Award for Excellence in an Introductory Course. He has been honored twice with the Harvey Levin Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching, and he has also received the University’s Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.
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University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice Launches Penn-China Civil Society Initiative
The University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice has launched the Penn-China Civil Society Initiative, a program to assist the budding non-governmental sector in China.