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CD-ROM Teaches Medical Students How Prime-Time TV Doctors Affect Patients' Feelings About Physicians
PHILADELPHIA-Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have created a new training tool for medical students, a CD-ROM that examines how television medical dramas present ideas about doctors that may affect how patients interact with real physicians. Approximately 20,000 first-year medical students will get the CD-ROM as part of the traditional ceremony in which they're presented white lab coats welcoming them into medical school.
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Study Suggests a Newly Mapped Enzyme Could Yield New Treatments for Female Sexual Dysfunction
PHILADELPHIA -- New research from the University of Pennsylvania and other institutions indicates that the enzyme arginase II, which can short-circuit a biochemical pathway leading to sexual arousal in men, is also present in the female genitalia and represents a promising target for new drugs to treat sexual dysfunction in women.
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Ivy League First: Criminology Department at Penn
PHILADELPHIA- The University of Pennsylvania has become the first Ivy League institution to establish a criminology department.Lawrence W. Sherman, director of Penn's Jerry Lee Center of Criminology and the Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations, will chair the new department in the School of Arts and Sciences.Since the founding of Penn's Jerry Lee Center of Criminology in 2000, criminology research at the University has grown geometrically, with research projects being conducted from Australia to England.
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Judith Rodin to Step Down as President of Penn in June 2004
PHILADELPHIA -- Judith Rodin, president of the University of Pennsylvania since 1994, announced today that she intends to step down from the office when she completes her 10-year term in June 2004. The announcement came following a regularly scheduled meeting of the Board of Trustees on Penns campus.
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University of Pennsylvania Honored with Clery Award for Campus Safety Improvements
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania is one of two institutions of higher education selected to receive the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Award for 2003.Established in 1994, the award is presented annually by Howard and Connie Clery in memory of their daughter Jeanne Ann to schools and individuals who have done extraordinary things to make college and university students safer. Jeanne Ann Clery was murdered in her Lehigh University dorm room in 1986 by a fellow student who was unknown to her.
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STAFF Q&A/David Millar
STAFF Q&A/Penn network security guru Dave Millar fiddles around with friends and colleagues If it’s noon Thursday, it must be string-along time. That’s the time when Dave Millar and a bunch of his friends and colleagues on and off campus gather in Steinhardt Plaza behind Steinberg-Dietrich Hall for a folksy jam session.
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Commencement roundup: The weather couldn’t have been better and the spirit was celebratory at Penn’s 247th Commencement May 19. The tenor of the times, however, was manifested in the more subdued form that celebration took.
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Room to play
Penn’s student performing arts organizations are coming closer to a new home in Stouffer College House. Work is now under way on a new performing arts hub in the former Stouffer basement dining hall. When it opens in August 2004, the facility will offer much-needed rehearsal and meeting space for the Performing Arts Council’s 43 member groups. “The biggest thing the new hub offers is appropriate facilities for many of the groups that are now practicing in inappropriate spaces,” said Performing Arts Coordinator Ty Furman.
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AWARDS & HONORS
The Pennsylvania Gazette took away a Gold Medal in the 2003 Council for Advancement and Support of Education’s Periodical Staff Writing contest. The winning package of five articles included a piece about 9/11 search dogs and a profile of Penn’s Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center. CASE also recognized the Research at Penn web site with a 2003 Circle of Excellence Silver Medal. Developed to share research advances from across the University, Research at Penn was selected from 154 entries.