University of Pennsylvania's LGBT Center to Host Gay-Friendly College Admission Fair Dec. 1
WHO: Penn's Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center
WHAT: National college admission fair specifically designed for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students to find LGBT-friendly colleges and universities
WHEN: Dec. 1, 2007
11 a.m-4:30 p.m.
WHERE: Penn LGBT Center
3907 Spruce St.
The fair provides high school students and their families an opportunity to learn about and meet representatives of colleges and universities that value LGBT students.
Penn is co-sponsoring the fair with the LGBT-Friendly Campus Climate Index, www.campusclimateindex.org, which assists colleges and universities in learning ways to improve their LGBT campus life.
Nanoparticle blueprints reveal path to smarter medicines
New research involving Penn Engineering shows detailed variation in lipid nanoparticle size, shape, and internal structure, and finds that such factors correlate with how well they deliver therapeutic cargo to a particular destination.
A generous gift from alumni Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman brings the work of internationally acclaimed artist Jaume Plensa to the University of Pennsylvania. The latest addition to the Penn Art Collection expands Philadelphia's public art.
A massive chunk of ice, a new laser, and new information on sea-level rise
For nearly a decade, Leigh Stearns and collaborators aimed a laser scanner system at Greenland’s Helheim Glacier. Their long-running survey reveals that Helheim’s massive calving events don’t behave the way scientists once thought, reframing how ice loss contributes to sea-level rise.
