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University City Arts League
WHAT: For more than 40 years, the University City Arts League (UCAL) has offered classes and workshops designed to spark creativity and inspire a new hobby. Today’s classes and workshops range from pottery and photography to kickboxing-aerobics and magic. There’s also a gallery space tucked inside the group’s beautiful Victorian twin house.
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Making their block beautiful
Mark Stehle Residents of the 800 block of South 48th Street call it the “Block of the Four P’s,” for the things that have made the block a stable and unique place in University City: people, plants, porches and parties.
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View from above
A construction worker looks out over a mesh of steel as construction continues at The Radian, a new apartment complex being built at 40th and Walnut streets. Photo credit: Mark Stehle
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Penn Band Attempts to Set Guinness World Record for Oversized Conductor's Baton
Penn Band Attempts to Set Guinness World Record for Oversized Conductor's Baton WHO: University of Pennsylvania marching bandWHAT: Unveiling of 15 foot, 8 inch conductors batonWHEN: Oct. 20, 2007, around 1 p.m.WHERE: Franklin Field33rd and Spruce streets
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Penn Scientists Receive Five-Year, $2.5 Million Grant to Study Climate Change in Mongolia
PHILADELPHIA - A team of ecologists and evolutionary biologists from the University of Pennsylvania has received a five-year, approximately $2.5 million grant to examine the ecological and societal consequences of increased grazing and rising temperatures in the Lake Hvsgl region of northern Mongolia.
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A Penn Business-Opportunity Panel Discussion: "Nanotechnology: Small Science, Big Business"
WHAT: Penn's Executive Master's in Technology ManagementProgram has gathered experts in nanotechnology commercialization and technology transfer to discuss nanotechnology ventures and funding. Topics include the role of IP, market pull, funding, university research and collaboration and elements for success of a start-up. Penn's EMTM program is a two-year executive program based in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and co-sponsored by Penn's Wharton School.
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Stem Cell Nuclei Are Soft 'Hard Drives,' Penn Study Finds
PHILADELPHIA- Biophysicists at the University of Pennsylvania have discovered that the nuclei of human stem cells are particularly soft and flexible, rather than hard, making it easier for stem cells to migrate through the body and to adopt different shapes, but ultimately to put human genes in the correct nuclear "sector" for proper access and expression.
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Landmark Modeling Study at Penn Reveals How Ferroelectric Computer Memory Works
PHILADELPHIA -- A collaboration of University of Pennsylvania chemists and engineers has performed multi-scale modeling of ferroelectric domain walls and provided a new theory of behavior for domain-wall motion, the "sliding wall" that separates ferroelectric domains and makes high-density ferroelectric RAM (FeRAM) possible.
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Penn Professor Named to Leadership Role in New Neuroscience and Law Project
PHILADELPHIA - Stephen Morse, a University of Pennsylvania law and psychiatry professor, is among scientists, legal scholars, jurists and philosophers who will help integrate new developments in neuroscience into the U.S. legal system.
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Student Spotlight: Crystal Lucas
Mark Stehle PROVIDING RELIEF: This past summer, Lucas, a graduate student in the School of Social Policy and Practice, joined recent Penn grads Connie Hoe and Namhee Yun in Hancock County, Mississippi—the site of some of the most devastating damage from Hurricane Katrina. Lucas was on hand as part of the Feldman Initiative to tend to the mental and emotional health of residents recovering from the storm and flood.