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Ben’s Penn online: Penn’s guardians of the past—the University Archives and the Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library—are getting a head start on the 300th anniversary of the birth of its founder with “Penn in the Age of Benjamin Franklin,” a new web site devoted to the documentary history of the University’s first half century.
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Letter criticizes vaccine mega-trial
The largest and most expensive clinical trial of an HIV vaccine ever is now under way in Thailand. Three Penn scientists and colleagues from 17 other universities and research institutes across the country have argued that the mega-trial is a waste of money and illustrates the need to rethink the way such trials are approved.
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Staff Q&A: Tom Boyle
Senior Biosafety Officer Tom Boyle usually gets involved with infectious waste issues, performs laboratory audits and reviews recombinant DNA registration documentation to ensure the safety of Penn employees. Boyle, who has also worked as a volunteer firefighter in Willingboro, N.J., for 21 years, can now officially call himself a Weapon of Mass Destruction Hazmat (hazardous materials) Technician after completing a four-day training session at Fort McClellan in Anniston, Ala.
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Penn Law School Professor Appointed to U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council
Penn Law School Professor Appointed to U.S. Holocaust Memorial CouncilFeb. 11, 2004PHILADELPHIA -- Harry Reicher, a professor in the University of Pennsylvania Law School, has been named by President Bush to the Holocaust Memorial Council, the governing body of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The council is comprised of 55 presidential appointees, 10 congressional representatives and three members from the departments of Education, Interior and State.
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Steroid-Coated DNA Represents New Approach to Gene Delivery
PHILADELPHIA -- Coating DNA with a topical steroid might make for more effective therapeutic gene delivery, according to bioengineers at the University of Pennsylvania. The researchers have shown that a common anti-inflammatory steroid, wrapped around a strand of DNA, can prevent the immune responses commonly associated with gene-transfer techniques.Studies of the technique, performed in animal models, are presented in the Feb. 15 issue of the journal Gene Therapy, available online now.
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Former U.S. Assistant Attorney General Laurie Robinson Will Head Penn's New Master's Program in Criminology
PHILADELPHIA--Laurie O. Robinson, a nationally known leader in criminal justice policy, has been named director of the University of Pennsylvania's new professional Master of Science Program in Criminology. Robinson previously served as assistant attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice, overseeing the Office of Justice Programs from 1993 to 2000.
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“Service, social justice, equality has always been part of my upbringing.”
If planning the annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Symposium were left up to one person, it would be a full-time job all year. As it is, Machamma Quinichett spends a good chunk of her time each fall overseeing the planning effort for the two-week series of events. But the only paid member of the symposium’s planning committee—it’s part of her duties as associate director of the African-American Resource Center, the symposium’s sponsor—has plenty of dedicated volunteers from the entire Penn community to help her with the job each year.
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Their primary concern
The folks in Iowa and New Hampshire have had their say on who the Democrats should choose as their presidential candidate. Unfortunately, we Pennsylvanians don’t get our say until late in the spring, by which time the nomination is usually in the bag. So we thought we’d offer you a chance to cast your straw vote now, while the prize is still up for grabs. The responses we got appear to confirm Marie Gottschalk’s observation (see “Election,” page 5) that for Democrats, ousting President Bush is priority number one.
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2004: Déjà vu all over again, with a twist
The sight of a horde of Democrats pounding one another as they tromp through Iowa farms and New Hampshire hamlets has become a familiar election-year ritual. Associate Professor of Political Science Marie Gottschalk says that there’s a special twist to the 2004 version, though.
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Nancy Whitfield and Ann Anderson