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Former U.N. Ambassador Stephen Lewis to Speak at Penn
MEDIA ADVISORYFormer U.N. Ambassador Stephen Lewis to Speak at PennWHO:Stephen Lewis, former U.N. Ambassador and Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in AfricaWHEN:Feb. 27, 2007, 6 p.m.WHERE:University of Pennsylvania Huntsman Hall Auditorium, Room G-0634th and Spruce streetsAmbassador Lewis work in Africa through The Stephen Lewis Foundation helps provide care to people with HIV/AIDS, assists orphans and other AIDS-affected children and grandmothers who care for their orphaned grandchildren.
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Energy Working Group at Penn Hosts Mini-Symposium on Sustainable Energy
WHO: Energy Working Group at Penn, a multi-disciplinary group of University of Pennsylvania scientists and engineersGeorge Crabtree, senior scientist and director of the materials science division of the Argonne National Laboratory Joanne Milliken, director of the U.S. Energy Department hydrogen program WHAT: "The Search for a Sustainable Energy Future: Challenges for Basic Research" mini-symposium WHERE: Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall, 3330 Walnut St., Philadelphia WHEN: Friday, March 9, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m.
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Penn Alexander School Students Showcase Music Program With String Recital for Penn President Amy Gutmann
WHAT: A recital by a select group of string students from Penn Alexander School, who are showcasing this public elementary school's music program. The students will perform several selections for University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann. A reception will follow. WHERE: The Amado Recital Hall in Irvine Auditorium, 34th and Spruce streets, PhiladelphiaWHEN: 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007
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Penn Law School Establishes Civil Rights Chair With Help Of $1 Million Grant From Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA -- With the aid of a $1 million grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Education and a contribution from the Philadelphia law firm Duane Morris, the University of Pennsylvania Law School has endowed a professorship devoted to the study of civil rights and race relations. The Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professorship, the first at the Penn Law School named for African-Americans, commemorates the achievements of two stalwarts of the civil rights movement.
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Tough transitions
Photo credit: Candace diCarlo Democracies don’t go to war with democracies. So says conventional wisdom, at least.
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Fu-Wah
Photo by Heather A. Davis WHAT: Fu-Wah Mini Market and Deli. WHERE: This market is located in the Cedar Park neighborhood of West Philadelphia, at 810 S. 47th St., just a couple of doors down from the Italian restaurant Abraccio. WHY: Fu-Wah is a haven for those hard-to-find ethnic food items that aren’t stocked at the local grocery store.
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System in shambles?
In 2004, about half a million children in the U.S. were living in court-mandated foster care. Was that in the children’s best interests or does this startling figure represent widespread intrusions into privacy and family rights?
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Before and after at Annenberg
The sleek glass-sheathed Annenberg School building that rose up on campus in 1962 gave its students a fittingly modern home from which to conduct their communications research. If its design was future-focused, so was its construction, which left the past literally in the dust, taking out an entire city block. As the 1959 photo at left shows, pre-Annenberg the 200 block of South McAlpin Street (looking north toward Walnut Street from 36th and Locust) was a cobblestoned stretch of humble brick, clapboard and stucco rowhomes. Penn already had a presence on the street.
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Penn Researchers Replace Organ in Adult Mice Using "Single-Parent" Stem Cells From Sperm or Egg Alone
PHILADELPHIA -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine have derived uniparental embryonic stem cells - created from a single donor's eggs or two sperm - and, for the first time, successfully used them to repopulate a damaged organ with healthy cells in adult mice. Their findings demonstrate that single-parent stem cells can proliferate normally in an adult organ and could provide a less controversial alternative to the therapeutic cloning of embryonic stem cells.
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Michael Kelty
The Current Staff Photo credit: Mark Stehle WHO HE IS : Buyer, Computer Connection TIME AT PENN: 8 ½ years WHAT HE DOES: Kelty maintains merchandise levels, tracks trends and brings in new products. He also designs the Computer Connection ads that appear in the Daily Pennsylvanian and the Wharton Journal.