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Penn Engineer Mark Harding Learns About Himself Via Teaching
(This is the second in a series about University of Pennsylvania students who took their arguments in support of federal student financial aid to Washington this summer in a project organized by the Office of Student Registration and Financial Services. Other profiles feature students Kristin Thomas and Mounica Gummadi.)
Social Policy Student at Penn Archives LGBT Center’s History
A student at the University of Pennsylvania wants to make sure future generations understand historic struggles for equality, so that similar mistakes don’t happen again.
Nano-Noses at Penn Science Cafe
Physicist Charlie Johnson connects the biological to the digital, using graphene and carbon nanotubes to turn chemical interactions into electrical signals. Johnson will explain how attaching biological structures, such as antibodies, to these flat or rolled-up lattices of carbon atoms has enabled him and his colleagues to build new kinds of sensors, detecting things like Lyme disease bacteria.
Penn Researchers Help Show New Way to Study and Improve Catalytic Reactions
Catalysts are everywhere. They make chemical reactions that normally occur at extremely high temperatures and pressures possible within factories, cars and the comparatively balmy conditions within the human body. Developing better catalysts, however, is mainly a hit-or-miss process.
John Swartley Appointed Associate Vice Provost for Research at Penn
John S. Swartley has been named associate vice provost for research and executive director of the Center for Technology Transfer at the University of Pennsylvania.
Penn’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy Helps To End Hunger, Obesity, Waste
The Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the University of Pennsylvania has released the Food Funder Compass, a free, online guide to help United States donors channel their charitable dollars into organizations and models that make the biggest difference.
Penn Researchers, New Technology Provide Access to Data on Homelessness
Researchers from the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania want to help end homelessness through sharing critical data.
Two Penn Researchers Named Simons Investigators
Rajeev Alur and Randall Kamien of the University of Pennsylvania have been awarded five-year, $500,000 grants from the Simons Foundation, as part of its 2013 class of Simons Investigators.
Penn Researcher Works to Study Gun Violence
It’s a public-health crisis. Nearly 30,000 firearm-related homicides and suicides occur each year. Yet, the Centers for Disease Control and other researchers have been restrained by congressional action from using funds to examine firearm-related deaths or injuries, since 1997.
University of Pennsylvania Hindu Student Council Honored
The University of Pennsylvania Hindu Student Council has been named “chapter of the year” by the National Hindu Student Council. The Penn HSC chapter is recognized for excellence in campus ministry to and with the University’s Hindu population.