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2002 News Release Archives
Penn Sociologist Receives Fulbright to Uruguay
December 20, 2002
Scientists Find New Evidence of Cell ‘Promiscuity’: Fully Differentiated Blood Cells Remain Able to Switch Identity
December 16, 2002
Suburban Sprawl, Non-Traditional Cities
December 10, 2002
Tribute to Du Bois Being Held at Arthur Ross Gallery
December 10, 2002
Fisher-Hassenfeld Joint Gift Helps Transform Residential Life at Penn
December 09, 2002
Campaign Promotes Filing for Earned Income Tax Credit
December 04, 2002
"Share the Road" Campaign Launched
December 03, 2002
Educators to Discuss Dental Education Program
December 02, 2002
30th Anniversary "Back to the Future of Civilization: Culture and Art" Panel-Discussion to be Held at Penn
November 27, 2002
Penn Reports Jump in Patent Filings, Start-Up Companies Formed During Fiscal Year 2002
November 26, 2002
Human Brain’s Method of Combining Information Depends on How Many Senses Supply Input
November 21, 2002
Penn Presidential Expert Analyzes New Dynamic Between White House and Congress Since Mid-Term Elections
November 19, 2002
Third Annual Talese Lecture Series to Be Held at Penn
November 19, 2002
Third Annual Talese Lecture Series to Be Held at Penn
November 19, 2002
Penn Police to Unveil New Backup Emergency Communications Center Tuesday
November 18, 2002
Tele-Immersion System Is First ‘Network Computer,’ with Input, Processing and Output in Different Locations
November 18, 2002
Jonathon Santlofer Book Signing for The Death Artist
November 18, 2002
Cell Transfer Restores Sperm Production in Infertile Mice, Offering New Insights into the Workings of Stem Cells
November 15, 2002
Scholar Explores How Liberal Arts Colleges Reclaim Vision
November 14, 2002
Penn English Professor Receives Christian Gauss Award
November 13, 2002
Penn Professor Examines the Challenges of Multicultural Citizenship in England
November 13, 2002
Penn Social Work Professor Given Award for Pioneering Work in Adoption
November 13, 2002
New Programs at the Penn Graduate School of Education Aim to Prepare Scientific Researchers in Education
November 12, 2002
Drug Averts Parkinson’s Disease in Fruit Flies, Suggesting New Approaches to Human Neurodegenerative Diseases
November 11, 2002
Penn Launches New Research Web Site, Publication
November 07, 2002
University of Pennsylvania Selects QUALCOMM’s Eudora® E-mail Software
November 06, 2002
Silent Auction to Help University of Pennsylvania Artists
November 05, 2002
MFA Exhibition to Be Shown at the University of Pennsylvania
November 05, 2002
Changes in Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect Cases Improve Police Attitudes
November 05, 2002
Media Immersion Room at The Bridge to Showcase Animation, Video Works of Penn Film Students
November 04, 2002
University’s Penn’s Way 2003 Workplace Giving Campaign Kicks Off Nov. 6
November 04, 2002
Five Penn Researchers Elected Fellows of AAAS
November 01, 2002
Scientists Show How Large-Scale Order and Small-Scale Disorder Unite in Materials Used in Ultrasound, Sonar
November 01, 2002
Enhanced Treatment Capabilities Featured at Penn Dental School’s New Schattner Center
October 31, 2002
Worlds Apart: Daughters Immigrate to Israel and Leave Their Mothers Behind
October 31, 2002
Wooten to Receive John Chancellor Award
October 31, 2002
Penn Researchers Document Large-Scale Voter Registration Problem: More Voters Registered Than Eligible to Vote
October 31, 2002
Patusky Joins United Therapeutics Board
October 30, 2002
Dental Education Forum: How the Profession Can Meet the Public’s Future Oral Health Needs
October 29, 2002
Former U.S. Health Secretary to Detail Factors Impacting Access to Oral Health Care in America
October 29, 2002
Edwin Gordon Named Director of Mid-Career Program at Penn’s Graduate School of Education
October 23, 2002
Penn Center for Africana Studies Announces 30th Anniversary Program Series
October 23, 2002
Middle East Center and International House to Host Penn's First Middle Eastern Film Festival
October 22, 2002
Kelly Writers House Connects with Poet Carl Rakosi
October 21, 2002
Database Lets Researchers Worldwide Access the Genome of the Malarial Parasite Plasmodium falciparum
October 20, 2002
Wordsmiths Can Forge New Skills at Writers Conference
October 11, 2002
Penn Bodybuilding 101: Ivy Leaguers Flex
October 10, 2002
Penn Hosts White House Town Hall Meeting on National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace
October 10, 2002
Raymond Davis Jr. Wins Nobel Prize for Contributions to Neutrino Research and Our Understanding of the Sun
October 08, 2002
Dean of Penn’s Graduate School of Education Named to National Academy of Education
October 03, 2002
Penn Plays Major Role in $300,000 USDA Grant Program to Help Low-Income Philadelphians Get Food Stamps
October 03, 2002
Chemical Engineer Stuart Churchill Wins Founders Award from National Academy of Engineering
October 01, 2002
New West Philadelphia School Honors Sadie Alexander, Leader in Civil Rights, Educational Achievements
September 30, 2002
Penn Alexander School Ribbon-Cutting, Naming Ceremony Are Set
September 30, 2002
New Center Opens, Latest Step in Expansion of Africana Studies at Penn
September 20, 2002
Arthur Ross Gallery Presents “Antiquity Recovered: Pompeii and Herculaneum in Philadelphia Collections”
September 20, 2002
Annenberg Foundation Announces $200 Million for USC and Penn’s Annenberg Schools
September 19, 2002
Ethics in Archaeology for a New Generation Explored
September 18, 2002
Exhibition Examines the Evolution of the Book and Writing Surfaces
September 18, 2002
Philadelphia Earth Charter Summits to Be Held at Penn
September 18, 2002
Rock ‘n’ Roll at Penn’s Library with Rare Videos of Music Legends
September 17, 2002
The World of the Kabuki Artist on Stage at Penn
September 13, 2002
Study Finds Dogs Fed a Reduced-Calorie Diet Live Nearly Two Years Longer than Dogs on Unrestricted Diet
September 13, 2002
Penn’s Veterans Upward Bound Program Prepares Military Veterans for College
September 12, 2002
New Director of Penn's Center for Organizational Dynamics Takes Helm as Center Marks 25th Anniversary
September 11, 2002
New Director of Penn's Center for Organizational Dynamics Takes Helm as Center Marks 25th Anniversary
September 11, 2002
For the First Time, Gene Therapy Treats a Disease Affecting Multiple Organ Systems in a Large Animal
September 10, 2002
Penn Music Department Welcomes New Conductor
September 06, 2002
Major General Clifford Stanley Named Executive Vice President at the University of Pennsylvania
September 06, 2002
Evidence Shows Head Start Provides Leg Up to Kindergarteners
September 03, 2002
"Hands of Hope" and "Faculty Reflections" Panel Highlight Penn's Sept. 11 Commemorative Events
August 23, 2002
Penn New Student Orientation at Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 22, 2002
Penn Receives $1.5 Million Grant from IBM to Improve Teacher Training
August 22, 2002
Cognitive Scientist Aravind Joshi Receives Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to Human Cognition
August 17, 2002
Penn's Arthur Ross Gallery Presents 20 Years of Posters
August 15, 2002
With Testis Grafts from Neonatal Pigs and Goats, Mice Become First Animals to Produce Other Species’ Sperm
August 14, 2002
Penn’s Graduate School of Education to Partner with Three Philadelphia Schools
August 13, 2002
Fellowship Enables Detention Center Teacher To Transfer Penn Research Experience To Classroom
August 06, 2002
The University supports American Council on Education Statement.
August 01, 2002
Penn Museum Archaelogists Uncover 3,700-year-old "Magical" Birth Brick At Mayor's Residence Just Outside Abydos, Egypt
July 25, 2002
University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center Renamed
July 25, 2002
The Summertime Morphing of Penn
July 23, 2002
MEDIA ADVISORYPenn Hosts Area High School Students for "A Day in the Life of a Nurse"
July 23, 2002
Penn Graduate Students Design New Concepts for East Fremont Street in Las Vegas
July 22, 2002
Second commission unveiled for ICA Ramp Project by Kimowan McLain
July 20, 2002
ICA presents drawings by Amy Cutler
July 20, 2002
Cosmic Thing, first one-person museum exhibition for Mexican artist Damián Ortega
July 20, 2002
East Coast premier of Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More...An exhibition all about collecting
July 20, 2002
ICA Fall Exhibitions Events Calendar
July 20, 2002
Penn Engineering to Formalize Agreement with National University of Singapore
July 20, 2002
Penn Professor Terry Adkins Selected to Memorialize Integration of Higher Education
July 19, 2002
Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania Exhibitions for 2002-2003
July 17, 2002
Thinking of Michaelangelo: Penn Summer Arts Studio Prepares High School Students for College Experience
July 12, 2002
Penn Music Professor Resurrects Chopin
July 10, 2002
Faith-Based Welfare-to-Work Programs Rely Less on Government Funding Than Secular Programs
July 10, 2002
Marriage Prospects Highest for Urban Women Who Frequently Attend Church, According to Penn Study
July 08, 2002
2002-2003 Exhibition Schedule
July 06, 2002
Penn Undergraduate Thesis Exhibition Goes SoHo
June 05, 2002
Penn Historian Adds New Dimension to Modern Era: A Distinctive ‘Soundscape’ Shaped by Technology
June 05, 2002
Study Finds Cognitive Therapy at Least as Effective as Drugs in Long-Term Treatment of Severe Depression
May 23, 2002
"At the Cutting Edge: The State of the Art Quilt " at the Arthur Ross Gallery
May 16, 2002
Scientists Find a Gene That’s Key to Cloning Success but Also Hints at Serious Hurdles to Reproductive Cloning
May 14, 2002
Penn's Judith Rodin: U.S. needs "a constant infusion of brainpower from all over the world"
May 13, 2002
Jim Lehrer's Commencement Address to the 246th Graduating Class of the University of Pennsylvania
May 13, 2002
Michael Eric Dyson Named to Faculty at Penn
May 13, 2002
Penn Physicist Raymond Davis Jr. Receives National Medal of Science
May 09, 2002
Get a Grip, Colonel: Next-Generation Training of U.S. Peacekeepers is One Part Technology, One Part Psychology
May 03, 2002
Public Sculptor Robinson Fredenthal Exhibit at Penn's Architectural Archives
May 02, 2002
Troubled Youth Leads to Academic Honor for University of Pennsylvania Student
May 02, 2002
Penn Professor Inducted into American Academy of Arts and Sciences
May 01, 2002
Exhibitions Set at Penn's Graduate School of Fine Arts
April 22, 2002
Penn Humanities Forum Addresses Aging
April 22, 2002
Cinebridge and Penn Announce Plans for Innovative new Theatre
April 22, 2002
Short Teenage Boys Earn Less Than Tall Teenage Boys When They Each Grow Up
April 18, 2002
The Olympics in Philadelphia? For Some Penn Students, It's an Idea Whose Time Is Coming
April 16, 2002
"Hi, Mom!" -- Penn Students Develop a Way to Personalize Commencement for Participants
April 16, 2002
Moving from Welfare to Earning a Family-Sustaining Wage Takes Longer Than Predicted
April 16, 2002
Moving from Welfare to Earning a Family-Sustaining Wage Takes Longer Than Predicted
April 16, 2002
Penn Receives Grant to Strengthen Middle-Grades Math, Prepare Students for Engineering Careers
April 15, 2002
Adding Carbon Nanotubes to Epoxy Yields a Composite Three Times Harder and Far Better at Conducting Heat
April 15, 2002
Architect Rem Koolhaas to Lecture at Penn
April 05, 2002
Penn’s Nunery to Detail Role of Commercial Enterprise in Collaborative Urban Development Initiatives
April 04, 2002
Anxious Penn Applicants Discover Their Destiny Online
April 04, 2002
Penn’s Ira Harkavy Awarded 2002 Ehrlich Faculty Award
April 04, 2002
Exhibitions on Display at Penn's Architectural Archives
April 04, 2002
Peter and Geri Skirkanich Donate $10 Million for Penn Bioengineering
March 28, 2002
Penn’s Dental School Offers Parents Interactive Guide On Intelihealth Website
March 26, 2002
TV Journalist Jim Lehrer to Speak at Penn Commencement
March 25, 2002
Total Undergraduate Charges at the University of Pennsylvania Will Increase 4.6 Percent for 2002-2003
March 21, 2002
Study Tracks Health of Rescue Dogs, Handlers Involved in Searches at World Trade Center and Pentagon
March 20, 2002
Penn Hosts Screening of Alfred Leslie's Film 'The Cedar Bar'
March 19, 2002
Penn's Procurement Process Makeover is an ‘E-Solution’
March 19, 2002
British Judge Approves Penn Experiment in Sentencing
March 19, 2002
Internet Pioneers Cerf, Farber Take the Stage
March 18, 2002
Taxes: Then and Now
March 15, 2002
Suicides Involving Guns Rise Sharply Among Young African-American Males
March 12, 2002
Penn and Hong Kong Engineering Schools Form Alliance
March 07, 2002
Penn-Assisted School Invites Submissions for New Name
March 06, 2002
New Book Chronicles Lessons in Volunteerism at Philadelphia AIDS organization
March 04, 2002
Master French Printmakers to be Featured at Penn's Arthur Ross Gallery
February 28, 2002
Penn Students Fight Blight in Las Vegas
February 27, 2002
The Path to a Neatly Folded Protein, Long the Subject of Debate, Appears in many Cases to be Long and Winding
February 26, 2002
Penn Professor Solves Mystery from 'Hamlet'
February 22, 2002
US Crackdown on Illegal Immigration not Working
February 21, 2002
Urban-Revitalization Experts
February 18, 2002
New Book Targets Troubles of Latinos in Rural Areas
February 13, 2002
American Youth: Religion an Important part of their Lives
February 07, 2002
Slang: It may not be the King's English, but it sure Helps to Know It
February 05, 2002
Penn Team Awarded $1.12 Million for Efforts to Bridge the Digital Divide with Computing Infrastructure in Ghana
February 05, 2002
Penn's Afro-American Studies Program Names Film Maker Louis Massiah Artist-in-Residence
February 04, 2002
Penn Historian Explores Early Native Americans
January 31, 2002
Penn Library Lends Laptop Computers
January 17, 2002
Penn's Kelly Writers House Hosts Three Pulitzer Winners
January 11, 2002
Penn Marks Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday with Two Weeks of Events
January 10, 2002
Penn Team Finds 'Molecular Chaperones' Can Halt Progress Of Parkinson's Disease In Fruit Flies and Possibily Humans
January 04, 2002
Nanotube ‘Peapods’ have Tunable Electronic Properties, Penn and Illinois Scientists Report in Science
January 03, 2002
Clinical Trials for ‘Cytobrush’ Detection Technique Show Promise in Fight against Oral Cancer
January 03, 2002
UPM Arcgaeologist Keith Devries Asserts that Enigmatic Ivory Statuette, Uncovered in Greece in 1939, may be Part of the Throne of the Famed King Midas
January 02, 2002
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