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Recycling Zychal was invited to show their Upcycled Umbrella Dog Rain Coats at this years PhillyWorks design event, held at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Design as part of DesignPhiladelphia The Meyerson Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania was packed for the 2009 PhillyWorks Design Event which included a star studded line up of Philadelphia designers and companies including Josh Owen, SAVA, Recycling Zychal, and Fabric Horse Recycling Zychal, a Philadelphia company specializing in the rescue and repurpose of broken umbrellas was a crowd favorite at the opening reception of the PhillyWorks Exhibit held at the University of Pennsylvania's Meyerson Gallery as part of DesignPhila Logo - University of Pennsylvania Cigarette urns, like this one photographed outside a building on the campus of West Chester University of Pennsylvania,  Monday Sept. 15, 2008, in West Chester, Pa, will become a thing of the past after the chancellor of the 14 state-owned universities has banned smoking anywhere on the campus. Students and employees are now prohibited from smoking even outdoors. (AP Photo/Tom Mihalek) Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

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Rate Antioxidant Found in Vegetables has Implications for Treating Cystic Fibrosis

Original at Penn Medicine external link    Mon, Nov 16

Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine discovered that a dietary antioxidant found in such vegetables as broccoli and cauliflower protects cells from damage caused by chemicals generated during the body’s inflammatory response to infection and injury. Th...

Rate Penn Medicine Dean Receives Distinguished Service Award from AAMC

Original at Penn Medicine external link    Thu, Nov 5

Arthur H. Rubenstein, MBBCh, Executive Vice President of the University of Pennsylvania for the Health System, and Dean, School of Medicine, will receive the Abraham Flexner Award for Distinguished Service to Medical Education from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAM...

Rate Cellular Source of Most Common Type of Abnormal Heart Beat Found

Original at Penn Medicine external link    Mon, Nov 2

While studying how the heart is formed, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine serendipitously found a novel cellular source of atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common type of abnormal heart beat. Jonathan Epstein, MD, William Wikoff Smith Professor, and C...

Rate Partners May Help African-Americans Shed More Pounds

Original at Penn Medicine external link    Tue, Oct 27

Enrolling in a weight loss program with a family member or friend appears to enhance weight loss among African Americans, but only if the involved partner attends sessions frequently or also loses weight, according to a report in the October 26 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. Obe...

October of 2009

 

Rate Penn Scientists Awarded $8 Million from NIH for Regenerative Medicine Research

Original at Penn Medicine external link    Wed, Oct 21

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers, along with colleagues at the University of Washington and the University of Toronto, have received $8 million for stem-cell research. The Penn group is one of nine research hubs awarded $170 million over the next seven years b...

Rate Penn Investigators Receive New NIH Award for Transformative Research

Original at Penn Medicine external link    Wed, Oct 21

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine investigators are among the 42 recipients of a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) award that encourages investigators to challenge the status quo with innovative ideas. NIH expects to make competing awards totaling $30 million to t...

Rate News: ESPN's Industry-Leading Research and Analytics Team Launches New Program with Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Original at Wharton external link    Sat, Oct 10

New York, NY and Philadelphia, PA., September 25, 2009 --ESPN and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania announced today a three-year agreement centering on Wharton’s Interactive Media Initiative (WIMI). The agreement will provide ESPN with access to WIMI’s expert...

Rate News: Wipro Technologies Partners with Knowledge@Wharton to Launch Global Innovation Tournament

Original at Wharton external link    Thu, Oct 1

NEW YORK, September 30, 2009 – Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Ltd., announced today that it has partnered with Knowledge@Wharton to create a global innovation tournament. The objective of this tournament is to select the best and the most innovative tech...

September of 2009

 

Rate Penn Studies Point To Strategies for Reducing Painful Breast Cancer Drug Side Effects

Original at Penn Medicine external link    Mon, Sep 28

Aromatase inhibitors, the same drugs that have buoyed long-term survival rates among breast cancer patients, also carry side effects including joint pain so severe that many patients discontinue these lifesaving medicines. New University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine resear...

Rate News: The Aspen Institute Announces Thomas Donaldson As Winner of 2009 Faculty Pioneer Award

Original at Wharton external link    Sat, Sep 26

New York, NY, September 16, 2009 – The Center for Business Education at the Aspen Institute announced today that Prof. Thomas Donaldson of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has been named the 2009 Faculty Pioneer for Lifetime Achievement. This recognition program,...

Rate Penn Geneticist Receives NIH Pioneer Award

Original at Penn Medicine external link    Fri, Sep 25

University of Pennsylvania geneticist Sarah A. Tishkoff, PhD is among 18 recipients of the 2009 National Institutes of Health’s Pioneer Award. Tishkoff, the David and Lyn Silfen University Associate Professor and a Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, is a leading global expert in hu...

Year 2009

 

Rate Cooling Treatment After Cardiac Arrest Found Cost-Effective: Penn Study

Original at Penn Medicine external link    Wed, Aug 5

A brain-preserving cooling treatment called therapeutic hypothermia is a cost-effective way to improve outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, which claims the lives of more than 300,000 people each year in the United States and leaves thousands of others neurologically d...

Rate More Gene Mutations Linked to Autism Risk

Original at Penn Medicine external link    Fri, Jun 26

More pieces in the complex autism inheritance puzzle are emerging in the latest study from a research team including geneticists from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and several collaborating institutions. This st...

Rate News: The Wharton School Announces Agreement with Abu Dhabi-based Centre of Excellence for Applied Research and Training

Original at Wharton external link    Sat, Jun 20

Philadelphia, Pa., June 22, 2009 -- The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania announced an agreement with the Centre of Excellence for Applied Research and Training (CERT), a preeminent private education provider in the Middle East. Cornerstones of the agreement between Wh...

Rate Cherry Hill seeks a new vision for Route 70

Original at Philadelphia Inquirer external link    Tue, Jun 16

 PA Nando Micale, an urban planner and an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, used Cherry Hill's redevelopment study as a real-world classroom for his students. "Typically, the problems we work on in the workshop are ...

Rate They're making news at college - Gloucester County Times

Original at NJ.com external link    Mon, Jun 15

Gloucester County Times - NJ.com, NJ He had previously received his undergraduate degree in Psychology from Penn State University, State College, Pa. JENNIFER L. WEATHERSBY, Havertown, Pa., has made the Millersville University of Pennsylvania spring 2009 Dean's List. ...

Rate Indiana University of Pennsylvania establishes leadership center

Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review external link    Sun, Jun 14

 PA According to Finegan, the center will help students as well as faculty members to explore opportunities for civic engagement and community service within the classroom, around the IUP campus, in the community and in the global community.

Rate Preserving Springsteen oldies, goodies.

Original at Philadelphia Inquirer external link    Sun, Jun 14

 PA There's a notebook from a University of Pennsylvania shop, another bearing a map of New Jersey, at least two with Snoopy on the cover. One orange composition book has lines on the cover for the user to fill in a name, address, and subject. ...

Rate Cheyney University takes steps toward improvement

Original at Philadelphia Inquirer external link    Sun, Jun 14

 PA Mary Beth Gasman, an associate professor of education at the University of Pennsylvania, said she hoped the advisory panel focused on retention for students' sake, but also for the school's viability. "It helps with alumni giving and corporate giving ...

Rate 3 Strategies for Superior Returns

Original at Motley Fool external link    Wed, Jun 10

Dr. Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has demonstrated that the stock market is the best long-term grower of wealth -- better than cash, bonds, or even gold, no matter what kind of volatility, bubbles, and crashes we ...

Rate One Staff, Many Sports Loyalties - Roll Call

Original at Roll Call external link    Sun, Jun 7

subscription), DC Eisenberg is a 2006 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where he received a degree in American politics. A native of Philadelphia, Eisenberg first joined the Majority Leader's staff two years ago. Rounding out recent staff changes is Jessica ...

Rate Finders keepers at Penn Moves

Original at 6abc.com external link    Sun, Jun 7

These are things students can't take on an airplane," Barbara Lea-Kruger of the University of Pennsylvania said. and more »

Rate Connellsville's Keno earns partial scholarship to Cal (Pa.)

Original at Connellsville Daily Courier external link    Sun, Jun 7

 PA Keno has received a partial scholarship to play volleyball for California University of Pennsylvania. "I've been looking at California since I was a sophomore," Keno said. "The campus is really nice, and the volleyball team is really good. ...

Rate For the CDT/Robin Crawford

Original at Centre Daily Times external link    Thu, Jun 4

 PA Her voice opened up a whole new world of possibilities, and after high school she left for Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she majored in vocal performance. She thought about becoming an opera singer, but that changed when she joined a vocal ...

Rate New Era named Pa.'s best mid-sized newspaper

Original at Lancaster Newspapers external link    Fri, May 29

 PA A graduate of Millersville University and the University of Pennsylvania, Schreiber joined the New Era in 1974, becoming editor in 2000. He lives in Lancaster Township with his wife, Jo-Ann, and a son. Stauffer, a Penn State University graduate, ...

Rate Growing Retail Clinic Trend Makes Few Inroads in Poor, Underserved Areas

Original at Penn Medicine external link    Tue, May 26

Since 2000, nearly 1,000 "retail clinics" – offering routine care like sports physicals and immunizations and treatment for minor illnesses like strep throat – have opened their doors inside pharmacies and grocery stores across the United States. Retail chain operators proposed tha...

Rate Letter From Washington Women Rise in Academia and Beyond

Original at New York Times external link    Sun, May 24

 United States These include four of the eight Ivy League schools — the University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton, Brown and Harvard universities — and other prominent institutions such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Michigan and the ...

Rate Penn Medicine Physician Jill M. Baren To Lead Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

Original at Penn Medicine external link    Thu, May 14

Jill M. Baren, MD, MBE, an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, will today become president of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, the nation’s largest organization devoted to research and education...

Rate Opinion: Masterworks presents Negri's 'Mass of Hope'

Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review external link    Thu, Mar 19

 PA Music students from Indiana University of Pennsylvania played for one concert, and last year an orchestra from Slippery Rock University played for their performance of Verdi's Requiem. Negri and his trio will play for the Mass of Hope, with Negri on ...

Rate Opinion: Region weathers recession well

Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review external link    Sat, Feb 21

 PA Plus, the region has the state-sponsored University of Pittsburgh, Slippery Rock University and Indiana University of Pennsylvania. A wealth of health care institutions also helps render the Pittsburgh region "kind of recession-proof," said Pat ...

Rate Opinion: Presidents of Colleges Give Back Some Pay

Original at New York Times external link    Sat, Nov 22

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 United States - On Tuesday, Amy Gutmann, the president of the University of Pennsylvania, and her husband made a $100000 gift to the university to support undergraduate ... Washington State's 2 Well-Paid University Presidents Opt to Cut ... Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)

Rate Net Neutrality Advocates In Charge Of Obama Team Review of FCC

Original at Wired News external link    Wed, Nov 19

By Sarah Lai Stirland This March at a telecom policy conference in Hollywood, for example, Crawford bluntly told Ambassador Richard Russell, the White House' associate director on science and technology policy, that he lived in a fantasyland when he asserted that the United States' roll-out of broadband...

Rate Obama Science, Tech, Space, Arts Team leads

Original at p2pnet.net external link    Mon, Nov 17

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By Jon “Giving Barack Obama an official helping hand are Susan Crawford,  well-known blogger, professor of law at the University of Michigan and and not-so-well-known viola aficionado, and Kevin Werbach, assistant professor of legal studies and business ethics at the University of Penns...

Rate Podcast: Pt 5: Regional and National Financial Crises: Roots, Results and Responses

Original at uc.princeton.edu external link    Wed, Nov 12

A PRIOR conference focuses on the mortgage crisis, the public finance arena, financial regulation and the responsibility of the U.S. Congress. With keynotes by former Congressman James Leach, Princeton economist Alan Blinder and Wharton School Professor Susan M. Wachter. Pt 5: PUTTING I...

Rate Podcast: Please Explain: Undecided Voters (The Leonard Lopate Show: Friday, 31 October 2008)

Original at WNYC external link    Fri, Oct 31

Dr. Joshua Gold is Assistant Professor at the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Samuel Wang is Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Neuroscience at Princeton University, and author of Welcome to Your Brain. We're also joined by Carroll Doherty fr...

Rate Princeton Review Ranks Law Schools Too

Original at Above the Law external link    Mon, Oct 6

University of Pennsylvania Law School. 10. Boston University School of Law. Notice that Yale Law School isn't on this "best career prospects" list. I dare somebody to get into Boston College and Yale and go to Boston College because ...

Rate Opinion: Honors & Other Things

Original at UPENN Almanac external link    Tue, Sep 30

Honors & Other Things  PA - The University of Pennsylvania has been named a Top Wired College by The Princeton Review and PC Magazine’s “Most Connected Campuses” rankings. ...

Rate Ivy League Scores Low in Forbes’ College Rankings

Original at IvyGate external link    Fri, Aug 15

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By James Yu Everyone is getting into the college rankings game these days, and everyone - it seems - has the same goal in mind: to dethrone the juggernaut that is the U.S. News & World Report. But while students and alums of certain liberal arts colleges and lesser-known universities are probably re...

Rate Opinion: South Fayette teacher had 'dream job' for 35 years

Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review external link    Wed, Jun 4

 PA - Andrew graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and earned graduate credits from Washington & Jefferson College and Penn State University. ...

Rate Patch: University says no to Vista SP1

Original at TECH.BLORGE.com external link    Sun, Mar 23

By Erna Mahyuni After the drama that ensued about Microsoft putting out the Vista Service Pack 1 only to take it back, comes more bad news. The University of Pennsylvania’s tech support reportedly advised its faculty and students not to upgrade to Vista SP1. InformationWeek’s Paul McDougall had the lowd...

Year 2007

 

Rate Local dredging companies question value of fish surveys - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Original at Monessen Valley Independent external link    Sat, Sep 1

Local dredging companies question value of fish surveys Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - The Fish and Boat Commission, via contracts with Penn State University and California University of Pennsylvania, is conducting surveys to determine which ...

Rate Ivy League Latin Mottos

Original at Cornell external link    Sat, Jul 28

By Elliott Back Harvard University University of Pennsylvania Upenn’s latin motto has had an interesting history. It was first “Sine Moribus Vanae” but a troublesome student translated it as “Loose women without morals,” so it was changed to its current “Leges sine moribus vanae” which means in Engli...

Rate Opinion: Global Warming Bet

Original at Outside The Beltway | OTB external link    Thu, Jun 28

By Steve Verdon A professor at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of business has challenged Al Gore to a bet over global temperatures. The bet is for $10,000 and the professor, Scott Armstrong, is betting that global mean temperatures will be pretty much as they are now, while Al Gore will hav...

Rate Is Kal Good Enough For Penn?

Original at Sepia Mutiny external link    Thu, Apr 12

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By naina As many of you already know, Kalpen Modi will be teaching two undergraduate courses at the University of Pennsylvania in spring of 2008, one on Asian Americans in the Media and the other on American Teen Films. But unlike Hetal and Kapila, it looks as though some Penn students aren't too cra...

Rate Teaching the Many Instead of the Few

Original at History News Network external link    Sun, Apr 1

A recent piece by Paul Farhi in the Washington Post notes that the test scores of American students on international tests are not nearly as poor as some critics would claim. According to two researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, cited by Farhi, Americans are above average when c...

Rate Professor Kal Penn of U. Penn

Original at Entertainment Weekly external link    Tue, Mar 27

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By Joshua Rich Okay, my constant yearning to return to college got even yearnier today when I read the news that Kal Penn will be a visiting instructor at the University of Pennsylvania next year. Dude! Yep, our very own one-time stoner Kumar, who headed out to White Castle one day and returned one of the ho...

Rate Pennsylvania Shari'a Watch

Original at Little Green Footballs external link    Fri, Feb 23

Muslims in the Pennsylvania area are seething over plans to relocate a liquor store closer to the University of Pennsylvania—because there’s also a mosque nearby: Potential move brings potential conflict. (Hat tip: Mike.) The Masjid Al-Jamia Mosque is located at 4228 Walnut St., while t...

Rate New Ideas on Developing Thought-Controlled Artificial Limbs

Original at Medgadget.com external link    Fri, Jan 19

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By Michael Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have described a new type of nervous system interface that could be "linked to the patient's thoughts, providing two-way signaling for motor control and feedback from multiple external stimuli."

Rate Penn Professor is a Suspect in Wife's Murder

Original at abc13.com external link    Thu, Jan 4

A University of Pennsylvania professor was named a suspect in the murder of his wife, who was found bludgeoned to death in their home....

Year 2005

 

Rate Penn Researchers Study the Use of Ultrasound for Treatment of ...

Original at Medical News Today external link    Mon, Nov 7

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine completed a study in mice in which they used ultrasound both to see a tumor's blood perfusion ... Ultrasound Used in Mice Cancer Treatment All Headline News Ultrasound may help zap cancer Newindpress

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