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Penn, Drexel Scientists to Lead State's $10.5 Million Push to Reinvent the Delaware Valley as 'Nanotech Valley'
PHILADELPHIA The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has awarded a $10.5 million grant that aims to establish the Philadelphia region as a high-tech hotbed of nanotechnology an atom-by-atom approach to building products that many scientists believe has the potential to inspire a technological revolution. The grant, from the Pennsylvania Technology Investment Authority (PTIA), establishes a Regional Nanotechnology Center with the goal of remaking the Delaware Valley as "Nanotech Valley."
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University of Pennsylvania, Fannie Mae, Trammell Crow, University of Sciences in Philadelphia and First Union National Bank Announce New Partnership to Develop Rental Housing Opportunities in University City
PHILADELPHIA, PA -- The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) and the University of the Sciences of Philadelphia today joined Fannie Mae (FNM/NYSE), the nation largest source of financing for home mortgages, and the Trammell Crow Company to announce an innovative new partnership to preserve and develop moderate-cost rental housing opportunities for the entire University City community. "The Partnership for Quality Housing Choices in University City" will focus on improving management and maintenance of rental units.
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University of Pennsylvania's Alan G. MacDiarmid and Former Penn Physicist Alan J. Heeger are Among Three Winners of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
PHILADELPHIA Alan G. MacDiarmid, Ph.D., Blanchard Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, is one of three recipients of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Sharing the honor are former Penn faculty member Alan J. Heeger, Ph.D., now at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and Hideki Shirakawa, Ph.D., of the University of Tsukuba in Japan. The work underlying the award which showed that plastics can be made to conduct electricity was carried out at Penn in the late 1970s, when Drs. MacDiarmid and Heeger were both on the Penn faculty.
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The Constitution is in the hands of lawyers
Ah, the four branches of government: executive, legislative, judicial — and lawyers. Lawyers? Okay, so they’re not mentioned explicitly in the Constitution. But according to Walter E. Dellinger III’s Sept. 26 lecture, entitled “The Supreme Court and the Presidency,” the world of lawyers — whether it be lawyerly thought processes guiding presidents’ actions or attorneys litigating behind the scenes — exerts a strong influence on the way the country is run.
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Little tiny hairs are way cool
A piece of lint may hold the key to faster computers, cooler motors and more heat-resistant aircraft. But first, scientists have to get the lint in line. Needless to say, this is no ordinary lint. The stuff we’re talking about here contains hundreds of thousands of nanotubes — cylinders of pure carbon about 1/10,000th the width of a human hair. Scientists experimenting with these tiny tubes have already discovered their incredible strength and their superior electrical conductivity. Now, Penn scientists have found that they’re excellent heat conductors, too.
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Rockin' and twangin'
Rockabilly performer Sleepy LaBeef is the featured performer on “The World Cafe” Oct. 20, and the brains behind Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven pay host David Dye a visit the very next day. Besides these, the usual assortment of musical flavors are on the Cafe menu these next two weeks. Thursday, Oct. 12 Teddy Thompson performs music from his debut album
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"Elysium Britannicum, or The Royal Gardens"
John Evelyn Edited by John E. Ingram 480 pages, 86 black-and-white illustrations, $69.95 cloth It is not often that a major work of scholarship is published 350 years after it was first composed, but the University of Pennsylvania Press is delighted to offer John Evelyn’s “Elysium Britannicum, or the Royal Gardens” in book form for the first time. Evelyn was a garden designer, a noted author and translator of garden books, and a founding member of the Royal Society in 1660, where experimental science fueled the changing intellectual debate.
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Campus politicos gear up for the election
The elections are coming — and Penn students of many political stripes are getting in on the act. Student groups dedicated to the campaigns of Al Gore, George W. Bush and Ralph Nader are going into overdrive as Nov. 7 draws ever nearer.
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Novelist dares to say the unsayable
For me, going to the Kelly Writers House in late September to watch author Rick Moody read was like being asked to take a bite of exotic seafood. Though reluctant at first, the gratifying satisfaction of the first bite dismissed any feelings of doubt I had about coming to see a writer whom I had never heard of. But I had heard of “The Ice Storm,” a movie based on his 1994 novel of the same name.
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The outfit is the message
At “Style and the Fashioning of the Body,” a forum sponsored by the Penn Humanities Forum late last month, three Penn professors — Diana Crane, Peter Stallybrass, and Caroline Weber — discussed fashion and its social and political agendas. Here are excerpts from each of their talks.