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Penn to Launch Building and Trades Apprenticeship Program Thursday for West Philadelphia Residents
WHAT: The Lucien E. Blackwell Apprenticeship Program, a new building trades training program, will be launched with a ceremonial signing of a memo of understanding between officials of the University of Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia Business and Construction Trades Council and others.
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Childhood Obesity Indicates Greater Risk of School Absenteeism, University of Pennsylvania Study Reveals
PHILADELPHIA -- In the first study of how weight may affect school attendance, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University have found that overweight children are at greater risk of school absenteeism than their normal-weight peers. The study of more than a thousand 4th, 5th and 6th graders in the Philadelphia school system also determined that body mass index, or BMI, is as significant a factor in determining absenteeism from school as age, race, socioeconomic status and gender, formerly the four main predictors.
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Penn's Autonomous Car "Little Ben" Advances to the Semi-Finals of the DARPA Urban Challenge
PHILADELPHIA - "Little Ben," the autonomous vehicle engineered by University of Pennsylvania and Lehigh University faculty and students to drive itself has advanced to the semi-finals of the DARPA Urban Challenge.
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Penn Media Seminar on Gun Violence
Featured below is information on the experts from the Penn Media Seminar on Gun Violence as well as audio transcripts of the proceedings. The Penn Media Seminar on Gun Violence is one of a series of programs to which reporters, editors and producers from the news media are invited. Featured panelistsAudio transcripts
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Penn Students Reach Out to Hancock County, "the Forgotten Part of the Katrina Disaster"
PHILADELPHIA - Two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, residents of Hancock County, Miss., continue to suffer from a mental-health and social-services crisis, and students and alumni from the University of Pennsylvania have stepped in to lend a hand.The people from Penn are traveling to a region where suicides, suicide attempts, child abuse and domestic violence have skyrocketed and where there has been a surge in reported cases of post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Alumnus Krishna Singh Gives $20 Million to Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science
PHILADELPHIA -- Krishna Singh has made the largest single gift in the history of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania. The $20 million gift will create the Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology, a planned 100,000 square-foot facility that will serve not only the Penn campus but the entire Philadelphia region. It will function as a crossroads of multi-disciplinary fundamental and translational research, education and innovation.
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Penn Summer Mentorship Program Graduation Ceremony Showcases Student Projects
WHO: Penn Summer Mentorship Program for high school studentsWHAT: Graduation ceremonyWHERE: Penn Law School, Room G213, 34th Street between Chestnut and Sansom streetsWHEN: Friday, Aug. 3, 10 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.The University of Pennsylvania will hold a graduation ceremony for 61 Philadelphia high school students who participated in the Penn Summer Mentorship Program. The graduates, 10th and 11th graders from 32 local public high schools, will present their final projects.
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University of Pennsylvania Engineers Force Open Novel Protein Targets Within Stem Cells and Blood Cells
PHILADELPHIA - Applying physical stress to cells, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science have demonstrated that everyday forces can alter the structure of proteins tucked within cells, unfold them and expose new targets in the fight against disease.
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University of Pennsylvania Engineers Discover Natural "Workbench" for Nanoscale Construction
PHILADELPHIA -- Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have taken a step toward simplifying the creation of nanostructures by identifying the first inorganic material to phase separate with near-perfect order at the nanometer scale. The finding provides an atomically tuneable nanocomposite "workbench" that is cheap and easy to produce and provides a super-lattice foundation potentially suitable for building nanostructures.The findings appear in the August issue of Nature Materials.
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Ground-breaking Celebration Set for July 18 for The Radian Student Housing Community
WHAT: A ceremonial ground breaking celebrating the construction of The Radian, a student apartment community in the 3900 block of Walnut Street in Philadelphia, adjacent to the University of Pennsylvania campus and developed by University Partners and Inland American Communities. Scheduled to open in August 2008, the $50 million-plus building will feature a 14-story, 150-unit apartment community as well as more than 40,000 square feet of street- and mezzanine-level retail stores. Its construction will include environmentally friendly energy features.