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Staff Q&A: Bryan Isola
Photo credit: Mark Stehle Philadelphia boasts five city ice rinks and one beside the Delaware, all created specifically for public skating. Travel outside the city, and in a 20-mile radius, you’ll find no fewer than seven full-service rinks open for both skating and hockey. But there’s no place quite like Penn’s ice rink.
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Study sheds light on epidural denial
E. Andrew Ochroch says his recent study shows African Americans are more likely than other patients to refuse epidural pain relief, even though the method leads to better post-surgical outcomes. Between 1932 and 1972, nearly 400 African-American men suffering from syphilis were denied treatment. On the order of the U.S. government.
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Clinton: Racism remains an issue
Former President Bill Clinton, shown here with Penn President Amy Gutmann, delivered the keynote address for the Feb. 28 Penn-hosted “Kerner Plus 40” symposium, which marked the 40th anniversary of the landmark 1968 report issued by the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders.Photo credit: Mark Stehle
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Seeking justice in wartorn nations
In much of the developed world, justice is something that most people take for granted. But as Sharon Ravitch has learned, there are some places where justice remains elusive—if not entirely out of reach. That’s especially true in countries ravaged by, or recovering from, ongoing conflict.
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Work in progress
Nancy Tsang ‘09 is busy building a “character” for a film project in her Mixed Media Animation class. Photo credit: Mark Stehle
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Surface Dislocation Nucleation: Strength Is But Skin Deep at the Nanoscale, Penn Engineers Discover
PHILADELPHIA –- For centuries, engineers have bent and torn metals to test their strength and ductility. Now, materials scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science are studying the same metals but at nanoscale sizes in the form of wires a thousand times thinner than a human hair. This work has enable Penn engineers to construct a theoretical model to predict the strength of metals at the nanoscale.
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Penn Responds to U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
To the Penn community:I am pleased to share with you the University of Pennsylvania's response to Senators Max Baucus and Charles Grassley of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, who had written Penn and 135 other colleges and universities seeking information regarding our tuition rates, financial aid, and endowments. The report is available online in PDF format.
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Viruses Evolve To Play By Host Rules, According to University of Pennsylvania Researchers
PHILADELPHIA -- Biologists at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University have examined the complete genomes of viruses that infect the bacteria E. coli, P. aeruginosa and L. lactis and have found that many of these viral genomes exhibit codon bias, the tendency to preferentially encode a protein with a particular spelling.Researchers analyzed patterns of codon usage across 74 bacteriophages using the concept of a "genome landscape," a method of visualizing long-range patterns in a genome sequence.
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Penn Scientists Find a Protein That Inhibits Ebola From Reaching Out to Infect Neighboring Cells
PHILADELPHIA -– Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine have identified a protein, ISG15, that inhibits the Ebola virus from budding, the process by which viruses escape from cells and spread to infect neighboring cells. This study shows for the first time how ISG15 slows the spread of Ebola virus budding, an observation that could help explain how ISG15 successfully inhibits other viruses, including HIV-1 and herpes simplex virus type I.
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Women of Color Day at Penn Features Awards Luncheon, Conference on Impact of Violence on Women of Color
WHO: Women of Color at the University of PennsylvaniaSpeakers include:Richard Gelles, Penn School of Social Policy and PracticedeanIra Harkavy, Penn’s Netter Center for CommunityPartnerships directorMichelle Kerr Spry, Mothers In ChargeJennifer Cronley, Congreso de Latinos UnidosGwendolyn Davis, Resources for ChangeWHAT: Conference and awards luncheonWHERE &WHEN: Conference: Friday, March 7, 9-11:30 a.m., Ben Franklin Room, Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce St.