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The Arthur Ross Gallery Presents "Mapping the Pacific Coast: Coronado to Lewis and Clark, the Quivira Collection"
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania's Arthur Ross Gallery presents "Mapping the Pacific Coast: Coronado to Lewis and Clark, the Quivira Collection" from Sep. 24 through Jan. 8. With 33 maps dated as early as 1544, "Mapping the Pacific Coast" is one of the most comprehensive collections of pre-Lewis and Clark maps of the American West Coast.
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Vanda McMurtry Named Vice President for Government and Community Affairs at Penn
PHILADELPHIA -- Vanda McMurtry, vice president for government and community relations at Cornell University and former chief counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, has been named Penn's new vice president for government and community affairs, Penn President Amy Gutmann has announced. He will assume his new position October 1, 2005.As one of the University's senior administrators, he will direct Penn's relationship with state, local and federal governments as well as non-governmental groups at the community and national levels.
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Expert Comment on President Bush's Remarks on the Teaching of "Intelligent Design"
Michael Weisberg, an assistant professor in the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Philosophy, is an expert on the history and philosophy of science. Earlier this year, Dr. Weisberg, along with Penn biologist Paul Sniegowski, submitted an open letter signed by many of their Penn colleagues asking the Dover, Pa., school board to reconsider its decision to allow "intelligent design theory" in local schools. As the issue has grown nationally, President Bush has voiced support for teaching intelligent design in public schools.
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Ben Franklin Autobiography Is Penn Reading Project as City Prepares for Yearlong 300th Birthday Celebration
PHILADELPHIA -- As America prepares to celebrate Ben Franklin's 300th birthday, freshmen at the Franklin-founded University of Pennsylvania will be reading his autobiography for the annual Penn Reading Project.Each fall, as part of new student orientation at Penn, incoming students and volunteer faculty and senior administrators discuss a single book in a non-graded, non-credit experience known as the Penn Reading Project.
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Penn Researchers Take a Big Step Forward in Making Smaller Circuits
PHILADELPHIA -- Physicists at the University of Pennsylvania have overcome a major hurdle in the race to create nanotube-based electronics. In an article in the August issue of the journal Nature Materials, available online now, the researchers describe their method of using nanotubes tiny tubes entirely composed of carbon atoms -- to create a functional electronic circuit. Their method creates circuits by dipping semiconductor chips into liquid suspensions of carbon nanotubes, rather than growing the nanotubes directly on the circuit.
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Penn Hosts World Congress of Criminology Conference
PHILADELPHIA-- More than 1,100 people from 65 nations are expected to gather on the University of Pennsylvania campus for the 14th World Congress of Criminology Conference Aug. 7-11. Coordinated by Penn's Jerry Lee Center of Criminology, in collaboration with the International Society of Criminology, the conference,"Preventing Crime & Promoting Justice: Voices for Change," will examine issues such as gun violence, drug abuse, juvenile delinquency, mentoring at-risk youth and restorative justice.
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New Stamp Depicts Last B-24 Bomber Lost in WWII Chronicled in Book by Penn Professor Thomas Childers
PHILADELPHIA --The B-24 Liberator depicted on one of the new U.S. Postal Service stamps is the Black Cat, chronicled in "Wings of Morning: The Story of the Last American Bomber Shot Down Over Germany in World War II" by Thomas Childers, a history professor at the University of Pennsylvania.Childers, the nephew of a crewman killed in the crash, wrote the book based on his discovery of hundreds of his uncle's wartime letters. He spoke at a first-day-of-issue ceremony to dedicate the "American Advances in Aviation" commemorative stamp pane July 29.
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Penn's Kelly Writers House Announces Spring 2006 Fellows
PHILADELPHIA-- Writers Richard Ford, Cynthia Ozick and Ian Frazier have been named the Kelly Writers House Fellows for the spring 2006 semester at the University of Pennsylvania.Ford will be on the Penn campus Feb. 13-14, followed by Ozick March 20-21 and Frazier April 17-18.The Fellows program offers undergraduate students the opportunity to interact with noted authors in an informal setting.
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Expert Comment on U.S. Supreme Court Nominee John Roberts
Expert Comment on U.S. Supreme Court Nominee John Robertsfrom the University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolJuly 20, 2005Nathaniel Persily, a law and political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania, researches, writes and teaches about constitutional law, election law and politics
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Expert Comment on the U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice's Role
Expert Comment on the U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice's Rolefrom the University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolJuly 14, 2005Theodore Ruger, professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, researches, teaches and writes about the history of the Supreme Court, judicial appointments and constitutional history. He's currently researching and writing about the powers of the chief justice.