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University of Pennsylvania Student Creates Electric Tweezers; Now Everyone Can Have a Desktop Lab
PHILADELPHIA -- The ability to sort cells or manipulate microscopic particles could soon be in the hands of small laboratories, high schools and amateur scientists, thanks to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science. They have created a device, called "electric tweezers," which can manipulate and move almost any object seen on a simple microscope slide.
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University of Pennsylvania's FactCheck.org Named "One of 25 Sites We Can't Live Without"
PHILADELPHIA-- FactCheck.org, the nonpartisan website devoted to reducing the level of confusion and deception in U.S. politics, has been named by Time.com as one of "25 Sites We Cant Live Without." http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1222769,00.html FactCheck, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, joins Google, Amazon, eBay, ESPN, Wikipedia and NPR on Time.com's list of "must-click" sites.
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Expert Comment on Hurricane Katrina -- One Year Later
Eugenie Birch, professor and chair of city and regional planning at the University of Pennsylvania, is co-director of the Penn Institute for Urban Research and co-editor of the book "Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina." In this book, Birch discusses what can be learned from past disasters in planning the Gulf Coast's return to economic viability."While the urge to return to normalcy after a catastrophe is a universal theme in history, the San Francisco [1906 earthquake] story shows that risky rebuilding has important effects."
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University of Pennsylvania Reading Project Encourages Freshmen to Explore Technology Ideas in "Free Culture"
PHILADELPHIA -- The text for this year's Penn Reading Project at the University of Pennsylvania is "Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity" by Lawrence Lessig. Groups of first-year students and faculty leaders will meet to discuss the book as part of New Student Orientation at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 3.
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University of Pennsylvania Computer Scientists Puts Social Network Theory to the Test
PHILADELPHIA - Ever since 1969, when psychologists Jeffery Travers and Stanley Milgram first explained that everyone was separated by only six connections from anyone else, researchers have created theoretical models of the networks that societies create. Now, computer scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science have devised an ingenious experiment to put such theories to the test.
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University of Pennsylvania Researcher Reports JitterBugs Could Turn Your Keyboard Against You, Steal Data
PHILADELPHIA -- Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science warn against an entirely new threat to computer security: peripheral devices -- such as keyboards, mice or microphones -- which could be physically bugged in an attempt to steal data. Penn graduate student Gaurav Shah has identified a class of devices that could covertly transmit data across an existing network connection without the user's knowledge.
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University of Pennsylvania Named One of 20 Best U.S. Campuses for LGBT Students
University of Pennsylvania Named One of 20 Best U.S. Campuses for LGBT StudentsAug. 7, 2006PHILADELPHIA The University of Pennsylvania has been recognized as one of the nation's 20 best campuses for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students.Penn is featured in The Advocate College Guide of 100 best LGBT-friendly campuses in the United States. Penn was recognized for its resources and its positive living and learning environment for LGBT students.
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University of Pennsylvania's Jerry Lee Center to Partner With 1st Judicial District in Homicide Prevention Initiative
PHILADELPHIA -- The First Judicial District of Pennsylvania and the University of Pennsylvania's Jerry Lee Center of Criminology are joining in an effort to reduce homicides in Philadelphia. The program is supported by $1 million in city, state and private funding.
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University of Pennsylvania Division of Recreation and Intercollegiate Athletics' NCAA Certification Renewed
PHILADELPHIA - The National Collegiate Athletic Association has again certified the University of Pennsylvania's intercollegiate athletics program.The certification concludes an 18-month self-study process in which all aspects of the University's 33-sport athletics program were examined. The process included a review of governance and commitment to rules compliance, academic integrity and student-athlete welfare.Penn was one of 17 universities to be fully certified in the NCAA's most recent announcement.
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University of Pennsylvania Researchers Find Role for MicroRNAs in Oxygenation, Nourishing of Colon Tumors
PHILADELPHIA -- Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine have identified how molecules of microRNA are responsible for the growth of blood vessels in a model for human colon cancer. The process, called angiogenesis, results in ability of ravenous cancer cells to recruit blood vessels and receive a steady supply of nutrients and oxygen.The findings, which appear in the online version of Nature Genetics, suggest that these microRNAs might also be a good target for future therapeutics designed to slow the growth of cancer cells.