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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 "Good" Bacteria Keep Immune System Primed to Fight Future Infections

Original at Penn Medicine external link    Tue, Jan 26

Scientists have long pondered the seeming contradiction that taking broad-spectrum antibiotics over a long period of time can lead to severe secondary bacterial infections. Now researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine may have figured out why. The investig...

Rate Trauma Patients Safe from Risks Associated With So-Called "Weekend Effect," Penn Study Shows

Original at Penn Medicine external link    Fri, Jan 22

People who are in car crashes or suffer serious falls, gunshot or knife wounds and other injuries at nights or on weekends do not appear to be affected by the same medical care disparities as patients who suffer heart attacks, strokes, cardiac arrests and other time-sensitive illnesses...

Rate Penn Scientist Given National Postdoctoral Association 2010 Distinguished Service Award

Original at Penn Medicine external link    Thu, Jan 21

Trevor M. Penning, Ph.D., director of the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, will receive The National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) 2010 Distinguished Service Award at the NPA’s 8th Annual Meeting, to be held Marc...

December of 2009

 

Rate Major winter storm crimps holiday travel | Philadelphia Inquirer | 12/24/2009

Original at Philadelphia Inquirer external link    Thu, Dec 24

I knew about the delays from watching CNBC," said Scarlett, who is studying engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and has not been home to see his ... and more »

Rate New Songs in Penn Drive

Original at Indian Express external link    Wed, Dec 23

Penn Masala, the Hindi a capella group from the University of Pennsylvania, is touring India in January after three years, and this can only mean one thing: ...

Rate Genetic Study Clarifies African and African-American Ancestry - Science Daily

Original at Science Daily external link    Mon, Dec 21

Genetic Study Clarifies African and African-American Ancestry press release) An international research team led by scientists from the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University has collected and analyzed genotype data from ... and more »

Rate FDA Clears TransOral Robotic Surgery Developed at Penn

Original at Penn Medicine external link    Fri, Dec 18

A minimally invasive surgical approach developed by head and neck surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicinehas been cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The da Vinci Surgical System (Intuitive Surgical, Inc., Sunnyvale, California) has been clear...

Rate Clinical Trial Launched at Penn Medicine to Treat Painful Ascites in Advanced Ovarian Cancer Patients

Original at Penn Medicine external link    Thu, Dec 17

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have opened a study to test a new drug’s ability to control accumulation of fluid in the abdomen – a condition called ascites – of women with advanced ovarian cancer. Currently the only treatment available for ovarian canc...

Rate No presents

Original at Sacramento News & Review external link    Thu, Dec 17

Sacramento News & Review The problem, according to Joel Waldfogel, a professor of business at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, is that our annual gift frenzy ... and more »

Rate Virginia Tech Team to Build Battlefield Robots for 2010 Competition - Newswise

Original at Newswise external link    Wed, Dec 16

Virginia Tech Team to Build Battlefield Robots for 2010 Competition press release) Chiba University in Japan, the University of New South Wales in Australia, and America's Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute, University of Pennsylvania, ...

Rate Mirna Therapeutics, Inc. Appoints Three External Directors to its Board - Earthtimes

Original at Earthtimes.org external link    Mon, Dec 14

Mirna Therapeutics, Inc. Appoints Three External Directors to its Board Earthtimes (press release) He received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania, his MD from Indiana University and his MBA from the Wharton School. Dr. Melrose currently sits on ... and more »

Rate Aliza Yudkoff and Ariel Glasner

Original at New York Times external link    Sat, Dec 12

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Her father, a pediatrician, is the WT Grant professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the chief of the division of ...

Rate It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: "The Gang Reignites the Rivalry" Review

Original at IGN TV external link    Thu, Dec 10

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Over on the University of Pennsylvania campus, Dennis and Frank went looking for a new teammate at Dennis' old frat house. What they didn't count on was a ... and more »

Rate The Wistar Institute Welcomes Three New Board Members - Newswise

Original at Newswise external link    Thu, Dec 10

The Wistar Institute Welcomes Three New Board Members press release) Caplan serves on the boards of the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, Big Brothers Big Sisters Southeastern Pennsylvania, ... and more »

Rate Penn Medicine, CHOP Autism Genetic Research Named One of TIME Magazine’s Top Ten Medical Breakthroughs of 2009

Original at Penn Medicine external link    Thu, Dec 10

The upcoming issue of TIME magazine includes research from a team of Penn Medicine and CHOP autism genetics experts among it’s Top Ten Medical Breakthroughs of 2009. The team first reported that multiple gene variants, both common and rare, may raise the risk of autism spectrum disorder...

Rate Science meets creativity in Cecil Balmond installation

Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review external link    Wed, Dec 9

Balmond is a professor of architecture at University of Pennsylvania School of Design. In this installation, "H_edge" extends like a delicate labyrinth from ...

Rate Got brain injuries? Eat protein

Original at National Business Review external link    Wed, Dec 9

Akiva Cohen and colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia simulated brain injuries on mice by drilling through their skills and ... and more »

Rate William C. Tyson

Original at phillyBurbs.com external link    Mon, Dec 7

He then graduated from the Wharton School of Finance, University of Pennsylvania, in 1950, with a Bachelor of Science in Economics. ...

Rate Penn Researchers Receive McKnight Neuroscience of Brain Disorders Award

Original at Penn Medicine external link    Thu, Dec 3

Rita Balice-Gordon, PhD, professor of Neuroscience, and Josep Dalmau, MD, PhD, professor of Neurology, both of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, have been awarded the McKnight Neuroscience of Brain Disorders Award for 2010. Balice-Gordon and Dalmau discovered tha...

Year 2009

 

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...

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: 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...

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 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 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 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 ...

Year 2008

 

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 Black Panthers vs Fox News Reporter At Polling Place In Philadelphia (VIDEO)

Original at Huffington Post external link    Tue, Nov 4

By The Huffington Post News Editors A University of Pennsylvania student reported that a Black Panther wielding a "night stick" intimidated voters at a polling place in Philadelphia (video below). The Black Panther allegedly claimed he was "tired of white supremacy." An Obama volunteer on the scene disputed this account...

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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