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Health System exec gets on his bike to raise funds for MS
Candace diCarlo Some people take part in sponsored bike rides just for the exercise. Others get a kick out of training with a team. For Garry Scheib, there’s a more personal reason. When he cycles past the finish line at the end of the Multiple Sclerosis Society’s City to Shore Bike Tour this September he’ll be doing it for his mother, who died from the disease in 1996.
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Penn Professors Elected to American Philosophical Society
PHILADELPHIA -- Three professors in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania have been elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society. Election to the APS recognizes extraordinary accomplishments in all fields.The new APS members from Penn are Daniel H. Janzen, professor of biology; Victor H. Mair, professor of Chinese language and literature; and Peter Stallybrass, professor of English.The American Philosophical Society is the nation's first learned society. It was founded in Philadelphia in 1743.
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Message from President Amy Gutmann on the Death of President Emeritus Martin Meyerson
It is with great sadness that I inform you of the death of President Emeritus Martin Meyerson on Saturday evening, June 2, in Philadelphia.
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Michael J. Cleare Named Penn's Associate Vice Provost for Research and Executive Director of Technology Transfer
PHILADELPHIA - Michael J. Cleare has been named associate vice provost for research and executive director of the Center for Technology Transfer at the University of Pennsylvania. Cleare will join Penn Aug. 1 from Columbia University, where he is serving as executive director of Science and Technology Ventures.
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Construction Begins on 14-story, 150-unit Apartment Community on 3900 Block of Walnut Street
PHILADELPHIA - In conjunction with the University of Pennsylvania, University Partners, a developer of student housing, has begun construction on The Radian in the 3900 block of Walnut Street.Scheduled to open in August 2008, the $50 million-plus building will feature a 14-story, 150-plus unit apartment community as well as more than 40,000 square feet of street- and mezzanine-level retail. Its construction will include environmentally friendly energy features.
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Dedication Wednesday for Wave Forms, City's Newest Public Art Gracing Domus Complex at Penn
WHAT: Dedication of Philadelphia's latest public art project, "Wave Forms," designed by New York artist Dennis Oppenheim. The work incorporates the 20,000-square-foot plaza and courtyard of the Domus residential complex, adjacent to the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, featuring lighting, hardscape and landscape in patterns of sound waves, as well as six aluminum and mesh bells, weighing a total of eight and a half tons, that will be eventually enveloped in foliage.
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Penn School of Design Professor's Work to be Shown at Venice Biennale's International Art Exhibition
PHILADELPHIA -- Josh Mosley, a professor in the University of Pennsylvania's School of Design, is among the select artists who will show their work at the Venice Biennale's 52nd International Art Exhibition. Mosley is a Penn professor of fine arts, animation and digital media and also a fellow at the American Academy in Rome. He will exhibit his new work, "dread," featuring mixed media animation about philosophers Blaise Pascal and Jean-Jacques Rousseau during a nature walk in which they are not able to resolve their perspectives on the nature of things.
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Penn Physicists Develop a Carbon Nanotube Aeroegel Optimizing Strength, Shape and Conductivity
PHILADELPHIA -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have created low-density aerogels made from carbon nanotubes, CNTs, that are capable of supporting 8,000 times their own weight. The new material also combines the strength and ultra-light, heat-insulating properties of aerogels with the electrical conductivity of nanotubes.
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University of Pennsylvania Biologists Reveal Neuronal Channel That Regulates Breathing
PHILADELPHIA -- Biologists at the University of Pennsylvania have found a link between a recently discovered protein in the brain and the nervous system's duty to regulate respiration.For decades, researchers have investigated how the brain "unconsciously" controls breathing, a chemical and electrical process considered automatic in the mammalian world.