10/9/2001, Fire Prevention Week October 7-13

Fire Prevention Week

October 7-13, 2001

Delaware Valley residents should participate in a planned home fire drill. The planning and practicing of drills in the home along with proper installation and maintenance of smoke detectors could help save your life in the event of fire.

People Don't Plan To Fail--

They Fail To Plan

--Division of Public Safety

--Fire and Occupational Safety

Almanac, Vol. 48, No. 7, October 9, 2001

ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS:

Tuesday,
October 9, 2001
Volume 48 Number 7
www.upenn.edu/almanac/

President Rodin responds to student visa restrictions.

Jerry Lee Center of Criminology will be dedicated next week.

Three Penn faculty members receive NSF funding for projects in information technology.

Call for Honorary Degree nominations 2003.

Dr. Zuberi is the new director of Afro-American Studies.

Division of Public Safety's Maureen Rush talks about security and Franklin Field institutes new security procedures.

The University Research Foundation Guidelines deadline approaches.

The A-3 Assembly's Employee Resource Fair Raffle Winners.

Research Roundup; Biochemical Pathway Detoxifies heavy metals, Engineers develop a fuel cell that runs on diesel; a gene has been found that carries messages from our circadian clock; and professor develops a game to teach what to do in case of a heart attack.