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New department an Ivy first
The study of crime now has a department all its own at Penn. At their June 20 meeting, the Trustees approved the creation of the first criminology department in the Ivy League. The new department in the School of Arts and Sciences will have Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations Lawrence W. Sherman as its first chair. Sherman is currently director of the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology and the Fels Institute of Government.
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Rodin to call it a decade in 2004
Judith Rodin (CW’66) will step down as president of the University next June 30. Rodin announced her decision at the Stated Meeting of the University Trustees on June 20. The first woman to run an Ivy League university returned to her alma mater in 1994 from Yale, where she had served as provost for two years. She set the tone for her presidency in her first year, laying out an ambitious “Agenda for Excellence” that aimed to strengthen Penn’s status as one of the nation’s top research universities and its ties to the community and the city.
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STAFF Q&A/Tracy Byford
STAFF Q&A/Tracy Byford has worked for more than two decades to keep Penn’s botanical garden a place all can enjoy “It is just such a surprise to see this on an urban campus.”
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Sleep Deprivation within Five Hours of Learning Impairs Memory Consolidation in Mice
PHILADELPHIA -- Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have found new support for the age-old advice to "sleep on it." Mice allowed to sleep after being trained remembered what they had learned far better than those deprived of sleep for several hours afterward.The researchers also determined that the five hours following learning are crucial for memory consolidation; mice deprived of sleep five to 10 hours after learning a task showed no memory impairment. The results are reported in the May/June issue of the journal Learning & Memory.
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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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Blast from the past at record conference
“Don’t Hang Up” by the Orlons rattled the Gothic-style rafters of the Class of 1949 Auditorium in Houston Hall, but no one got up to dance. Two of the men who made Philadelphia one of the brightest lights in the popular music galaxy, Joe Tarsia, founder of Sigma Sound Studios, and Dave Appell, who worked as a composer, engineer and producer at Cameo-Parkway Records, nodded their heads in time to the driving beat. They were at Penn as featured speakers when the national conference of the Association of Recorded Sound Collections met here May 28 to June 1.