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Movable Feast: Farmer's Market
By THE CURRENT STAFF Wednesdays at Penn have tasted a whole lot better since John King started setting up his market stall outside the Bookstore. For more than a year now the Amish farmer has driven in once a week from Paradise, PA, to sell his farm-fresh wares to the campus community. And what started out as a few veggies and pickle jars has expanded into a full-fledged mini market of produce, preserves, dairy and baked goods.
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Alumnus Gives $1 Million to Penn Engineering and Law
PHILADELPHIA -- A $1 million gift from Harold and Renee Berger will benefit the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Law School at the University of Pennsylvania.The gift will create the Harold and Renee Berger Auditorium and Lobby in Skirkanich Hall, the new bioengineering facility, and the Law School's Harold and Renee Berger Seminar Room. It will also support annual giving at the Law School.
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Quick Reaction "Chromophores" Emerge as New Class of Semiconductors, Suitable for Nanoscale Electronics
PHILADELPHIA -- The future of high-speed electronics might very well be defined by linking together small, "electrically jumpy" molecules called chromophores. According to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and St. Josephs University, electrical charges can zip along chains of linked chromophores faster than any electrical charge yet observed in organic semiconductors, beating the previous benchmark in this regard by a factor of three.
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Live on the Web: What Incoming Freshmen Want to Know About the College at Penn
PHILADELPHIA-- Incoming freshmen in the University of Pennsylvania's College of Arts and Sciences can register for courses and communicate with academic advisors face-to-face before the fall semester begins without stepping foot on campus thanks to a series of live webcasts. Participants can submit questions before and during the webcasts July 12, 2-3 p.m. (EDT), and July 26, 6-7 p.m. (EDT), by logging onto www.college.upenn.edu/freshmen/webcast/index.html.
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The Penn Science Cafe Presents: A Physicist Looks at the Phenomena of Vision
The Penn Science Cafe Presents:Let There Be Light: A Physicist Looks at the Phenomena of VisionWhat: The Penn Science Cafe, a lecture series open to the public that takes science out of the laboratory and treats it to a night on the town. The Penn Science Cafe can be your chance to ask your questions directly to leading experts. WHO: Vijay Balasubramanian, professor of physics and astronomyWHERE: The MarBar 40th and Walnut streets, Philadelphia
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Ch'ien and McMorris Are Named Penn Trustees
PHILADELPHIA -- Raymond K. F. Ch'ien and Marc F. McMorris have been named term trustees at the University of Pennsylvania. Ch'ien's term began June 16; McMorris' will begin Oct. 27.Ch'ien, who holds a Ph.D. in economics from Penn, is executive chairman of chinadotcom Corp., a software and mobile-applications provider. He is also an outside director of HSBC Holdings PLC, the third-largest bank in the world, and chairman of MTR, the public transportation system of Hong Kong.
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Penn ISC Division in Computerworld's National Top 10 List of 100 Best Places to Work in IT
PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania's Division of Information Systems & Computing has been selected by IDG's Computerworld as the ninth top workplace for information-technology professionals nationwide and as No. 1 in the Mid-Atlantic Region. This is the second consecutive year ISC has been so honored.
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Penn to Divest From Sudan in Response to Genocide
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania will bar investments of its endowment assets in seven oil companies currently operating in Sudan as well as in obligations of the Sudanese government as a response to the genocide being committed in Darfur, Penn President Amy Gutmann announced today.
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University of Pennsylvania Announces $75 Million Mixed-Use Development in University City
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania and University Partners, a FirstWorthing company, have signed an agreement to develop a $75 million multi-family, mixed-use building on the 3900 block of Walnut Street in University City. Penn currently operates a single story retail development at that location and plans to relocate existing tenants throughout the summer to accommodate the new development.