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'College girls'
By The Current Staff Photo credit: University Archives When Charles Dana Gibson began drawing his “Gibson Girl” sketches in the early 1900s he intended the drawings—pictures of elite young women looking oh-so-haughty—to be a form of satire.
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Q&A/David Luzzi
With all the hoopla around nanotechnology, you’d think it was a brand new science. Not so, says David Luzzi, a professor of materials science and engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. “It’s not a revolution,” says Luzzi, who is also the Penn director of the Nanotechnology Institute (NTI), a partnership among Penn, the Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania, and Drexel University. “In many ways it’s just the continued progression of technological change.
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Q&A with David Luzzi
Photo credit: Candace diCarlo
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Burrito trucks
By The Current Staff Work at Penn long enough and the lore of the food trucks seeps into your bones as deeply and irrevocably as the words to “The Red and Blue” (okay, bad example). Some trucks—think Magic Carpet—boast followings so legendary patrons are willing to line up for 20 plus minutes in all weathers to snag their lunchtime treat.
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From parking lots to 'paradise'
Amy Gutmann took to the stage at World Cafe Live last month to generate some real, live excitement about her east campus vision. Joining her at the National Constitution Center-sponsored event on Sept. 26 was Philadelphia Magazine Editor Larry Platt and restaurant impresario Stephen Starr.
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University of Pennsylvania Scientists Fundamental to the Discovery of Exotic Matter-Antimatter Particle
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced Sept. 25 that they have met the standard to claim discovery of astonishingly rapid transitions between matter and antimatter: 3 trillion oscillations per second. Their findings confirm the rate of matter-antimatter transitions for the Bs (pronounced "B sub s") meson first described last April.
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The painted trucks of Pakistan
Jamal J. Elias says it costs about $5,000—and takes up to five weeks—to decorate just one truck. And yet the artists responsible earn low wages and garner little respect in Pakistani society. Photo credit: Candace diCarlo
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Goya's Los Caprichos at Penn's Arthur Ross Gallery
PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania's Arthur Ross Gallery welcomes the works of Francisco Jose Goya y Lucientes in its new exhibit that runs from Oct. 27 until Jan. 7.Born in Aragon in 1746, the artist executed perhaps his most famous body of work in Los Caprichos. The prints are on loan from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ross, in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the association between the Arthur Ross Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania.
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University of Pennsylvania Researcher Urges Colleagues to Endorse Global Compact to Combat Deadly Infections
PHILADELPHIA - Combating the international threat of deadly infectious disease requires a bold and decisive plan, according to Harvey Rubin, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Institute for Strategic Threat Analysis and Response. At the annual meeting of the Infectious Disease Society of America, held today in Toronto, Rubin outlined a multi-faceted plan to approach global infection control in a white paper entitled "The New Arms Race: Making the Case for an International Treaty in the War Against Infectious Diseases."
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University of Pennsylvania Researcher Urges Colleagues to Endorse Global Compact to Combat Deadly Infections
PHILADELPHIA -- The Master of Public Health program at the University of Pennsylvania has been accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health.The program, housed in the School of Medicine, features an interdisciplinary curriculum in public-health practice, research and community service that is designed to attract professionals from diverse backgrounds. This cross-school model draws upon faculty across the University with interests and expertise in a range of public-health disciplines and content areas.