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46 unusual facts about University of Pennsylvania


André Lussier

From 1963 to 1964, he pursued a “clinical and research fellowship” in rheumatology at the University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Dr. Joseph Hollander.

Andrew Clausen

After leaving a graduate program at The University of Melbourne, he is pursuing a doctoral degree in economics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Bill McDermott

He also successfully completed the Executive Development Program at the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business.

Bill Straub

Straub attended the University of Pennsylvania where he played on the men’s soccer team from 1970 to 1972.

Carson and Lundin

Robert Carson (July 19, 1906-1960) was born in Macon, Illinois and received his architectural degree from the University of Pennsylvania before coming to New York City where he worked with Raymond Hood and was the senior architect of Rockefeller Center from 1939 until his partnership with Forsyth.

Correlation does not imply causation

This is a scientific example that resulted from a study at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center.

Donald C. Backer

Backer then moved on to studying reionization, leading a collaboration between the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Virginia, the University of Pennsylvania, and NRAO called the Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization (PAPER).

Earl R. Southee

Southee attended the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1920s.

Edward Dewhurst

At age 33, circa 1903, he left Australia to study dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States.

Giorgio Levi Della Vida

After the promulgation of the racial laws in 1939, he fled to the United States where he was offered teaching posts at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia as well as at the University of San Diego in California.

Gregg McClymont

He read History at the University of Glasgow, graduating in 1997, the year when he was also chair of Scottish Labour Students, before winning the Thouron Scholarship to study at the University of Pennsylvania.

H. V. Hordern

While a student of dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania, he toured England in 1908 and Jamaica in 1908-09 with the Philadelphian cricket team.

Hearing Health Foundation

In the late 1980s, both Dr. Edwin Rubel (then at the University of Virginia and now at the University of Washington) and Dr. Douglas Cotanche (then at the University of Pennsylvania and now at the Harvard School of Public Policy) discovered that even after chickens hair cells had been deliberately destroyed in their labs, the cells grew back.

Henry Esson Young

He was born in English River, Quebec, the son of Reverend Alexander Young and Ellen (McBain, and was educated at Queen's University, McGill University, Toronto University and University of Pennsylvania.

International Solid-State Circuits Conference

The first conference consisted of papers from six organizations: Bell Telephone Laboratories, General Electric, RCA, Philco, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania.

Iraj Zandi

Iraj Zandi (born in Tehran, Iran, in July 1929) is an Emeritus Professor of Systems & National Center Professor of Resource Management and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania.

James Sinclair Tait

He studied medicine with a doctor in Brigus and went on to receive a M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Joseph LaFlesche

She also worked with an ethnologist from the University of Pennsylvania to collect traditions and stories from the tribes.

Justin Marozzi

He has also earned degrees in broadcast journalism from Cardiff University and in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania as a Thouron Scholar.

Kandarodai

In 1970, the University of Pennsylvania museum team excavated a ceramic sequence remarkably similar to that of Arikamedu, with a Pre-rouletted ware period, subdivided into an earlier "Megalithic", a later "Pre-rouletted ware phase," followed by a "Rouletted ware period".

Lewis Riggs

He also attended medical lectures given by Dr. Benjamin Rush at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1812.

LGBT rights in the United States

Although the national Republican Party official platform opposes gay rights there are groups advocating for LGBT issues inside the party include the Log Cabin Republicans, GOProud, Young Conservatives For The Freedom To Marry, and College Republicans of the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University.

Mary Ewing-Mulligan

Ewing-Mulligan graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971 with an English major, followed by various positions with the Italian Trade Commission in Philadelphia and later in Manhattan.

Mel Bridgman

After his playing career, he earned a degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Minouche Shafik

In addition to her policy and operational roles, she has held academic appointments at the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Economics Department at Georgetown University.

MMDF

A re-coded variant of MMDF, called Pascal MDF (PMDF) was written at the University of Pennsylvania for VMS and was eventually commercialized through Innosoft, which subsequently ported PMDF to Tru64 Unix and Solaris.

Model Congress

Many high schools will often attend national model congress competitions at universities such as the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University.

The University of Pennsylvania hosted an intercollegiate Model Congress conference on November 6–7, 2010.

In November 2010, the University of Pennsylvania hosted the first ever intercollegiate conference, followed by a conference by Yale University in April 2011.

Montreal Maroons

The city's largest arena, the Palestra at the University of Pennsylvania, did not have an ice plant, and Penn balked at the expense of installing one.

MYH16 gene

The initial discovery of the human MYH16 mutation was published in 2004 by a team at the University of Pennsylvania led by Hansell H. Stedman.

Nefrina

The Museum received Nefrina in 1930 on loan from the University of Pennsylvania.

Penn College

University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy-League university located in Philadelphia

Pennsylvania gubernatorial election, 1958

Stassen had moved to the state to take the presidency of the University of Pennsylvania and was determined to return to electoral politics.

Pennsylvania gubernatorial election, 1966

His main opponent was the well known Harold Stassen, the liberal and somewhat eccentric former governor of Minnesota who had retired from the presidency of the University of Pennsylvania.

Persian Wikipedia

In a November 2013 report published by the Center for Global Communication Studies of the University of Pennsylvania, researchers Collin Anderson and Nima Nazeri scanned 800,000 Persian language Wikipedia articles and found that the Iranian government blocks 963 of these pages.

Ramses Barden

He was also named small schools High School Athlete of the Year, while being pursued by UPenn, Stanford University, San Diego, and Cal Poly.

Ribosome Recycling Factor

The ribosome recycling factor was discovered in the early 1970s by the work of Akira Kaji and Akikazu Hiroshima at the University of Pennsylvania.

Shiba Gorō

His brother, Shiba Shirō, under the pen name Tokai Sanshi, was also famous during the mid-Meiji period, as the author of "Chance Encounters with Beautiful Women" (Kajin no Kigu), a fictionalized account of his time as a student at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Stephen D. Schutt

Before coming to Lake Forest in 2001, Steve served as Vice President & Chief of Staff at the University of Pennsylvania.

Tammi Terrell

Following this relative failure, Terrell announced a semi-retirement from the music business and enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania where she majored in pre-med, staying at the school for two years.

The Blue Horizon

Michael has worked to make the building a cultural center for the surrounding neighborhood by creating a learning center with connections to Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania and a Philadelphia Boxing Museum.

Time-of-flight mass spectrometry

The idea had been proposed two years earlier, in 1946, by W. E. Stephens of the University of Pennsylvania in a Friday afternoon session of a meeting, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, of the American Physical Society.

We Are Smarter Than Me

Yoram (Jerry) Wind is The Lauder Professor and Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

William Wollaston

Its focus on practice as well as speculation attracted a more mature Franklin, who commissioned and published Johnson's textbook Elementa Philsophica in 1752, then promoted it in the College of Philadelphia (now Penn University).

Zoltán Dömötör

He is often confused with Zoltan Domotor, a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania who receives much unsolicited fan mail as a result.


Ahn Cheol-soo

Ahn holds a MSE at the University of Pennsylvania (1997) and an EMBA at the Wharton School in San Francisco campus (2008).

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Practical Guide

2004; she received a Ph. D. in Egyptian Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania, has worked with Zahi Hawass, and has taught at the American University in Cairo.

Annales School

The current leader is Roger Chartier, who is Directeur d'Études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Professeur in the Collège de France, and Annenberg Visiting Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.

Brian Russell

He was recruited and spent his freshman season (1996) at Penn, where he became the first quarterback in the history of the school to start as a freshman.

Censorship of Wikipedia

In a November 2013 report published by the Center for Global Communication Studies of the University of Pennsylvania, researchers Collin Anderson and Nima Nazeri scanned 800,000 Persian language Wikipedia articles and found that the Iranian government blocks 963 of these pages.

Charlie Gelbert

He was the son of American football player Charlie Gelbert, a College Hall of Fame end for the University of Pennsylvania who later had a brief professional football career with the early athletic clubs.

Cosmetic pharmacology

Anjan Chatterjee, a neurologist at the University of Pennsylvania, has argued that western medicine stands on the brink of a neuro-enhancement revolution in which people will be able to improve their memory and attention through pharmacological means.

Djerba

An archaeological field survey of Djerba, carried out between 1995 and 2000 under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania, the American Academy in Rome and the Tunisian Institut National du Patrimoine, revealed over 400 archaeological sites, including many Punic and Roman villas.

Dún Ailinne

Dún Ailinne was the subject of archaeological research between 1968 and 1975 by a team from the University of Pennsylvania led by Bernard Wailes.

Fred Feldman

Feldman came into political activity through the Student Peace Union at the University of Pennsylvania, which was led by supporters of the Trotskyist Young Socialist Alliance such as Feldman and Robin Maisel.

Givology

Givology campus chapters have been established at several universities, including the University of Pennsylvania, Oxford University, Virginia Tech and Peking University.

High rising terminal

According to University of Pennsylvania phonologist Mark Liberman, George W. Bush began to use HRT extensively in his speeches as his presidency continued.

Izchak Miller

Miller was a coordinator of the Cognitive Science Research Group at the University of Pennsylvania from 1985 to 1986; he later on joined the faculty of Yeshiva University in 1993, and also taught at Stanford University, Brandeis University and the MIT.

Jodi Magness

She received her B.A. in Archaeology and History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1977), and her Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania (1989).

Joe Banner

In 2001, Banner received a "PARTNERS Leadership Award" from the University of Pennsylvania for his extensive community service, including volunteer activities reading to students in the Boston public schools and spending time with severely ill children in the Boston Children's Hospital.

John Henry Alexander

Alexander also was professor of civil engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and professor of physics at the University of Maryland.

Joseph Barnes

He later studied medicine with Surgeon General Thomas Harris of the United States Navy, and received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1838.

Leone J. Peters

He supported many charitable organizations and institutions, including the Chemotherapy Foundation of New York, the American Cancer Society, the Boy Scouts of America, Skidmore College, Lehigh University, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Lycée Rochambeau

As of the 2012-2013 school year, students have gone on to attend McGill University, the University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, Sciences Po Paris, Stanford University, USC, University of Michigan, University College London, various faculties at the University of Paris and elsewhere.

Machon Yaakov

Machon Yaakov students represent such universities as Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, Cornell University, University of Michigan, Northwestern University, Rutgers University, University of Maryland, Cambridge, the London School of Economics, UCLA, and many others.

Mary Miller

For that exhibition, she wrote the catalogue of the same title—a finalist for the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award of the College Art Association—with Simon Martin, senior epigrapher at the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.

Matt Blaze

He is currently an Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania; he received his PhD in Computer Science from Princeton University.

Mordechai Rotenberg

Rotenberg has taught at University of Pennsylvania, University of California, Berkeley, the Jewish Theological Seminary, City University of New York and Yeshiva University.

Nurith Gertz

In 1996 and 2004 she was visiting professor at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania and in 2006, she gave a course on the history of Palestinian cinema at the Cinema Department of the Paris 8 University, Paris.

On Stage at World Cafe Live

On Stage Live At World Cafe Live (2007) is a live concert DVD from the funk metal band Living Colour performing live at the University of Pennsylvania as part of the World Cafe on Philadelphia's WXPN radio station.

Philadelphia hardcore

An important source of exposing the Philadelphia region to this music were the DJs Jeff Jenkins and Steve Lukshides at WKDU, 91.7 FM, Drexel University's radio station and Eddie "Hacksaw" at University of Pennsylvania's WXPN, 88.5 FM.

Powelton Village, Philadelphia

The University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University both have significant presences in the neighborhood, as well as in adjacent areas to the south.

Reginald H. Jones

After graduating from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a brother of Phi Sigma Kappa, Jones joined the GE's Business Training Course in 1939.

Rhys Carpenter

In his retirement he held visiting professorships at the University of Pennsylvania (1960), was Andrew W. Mellon professor at the University of Pittsburgh (1961–62), and visiting scholar at the University of Washington (1963–64).

Robert Lewis Shayon

He was also a teacher at the Annenberg School for Communication and the University of Pennsylvania.

Stephen Albert

Following composition lessons in Stockholm with Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Albert studied with Joseph Castaldo at the Philadelphia Musical Academy (BM 1962); in 1963 he worked with George Rochberg at the University of Pennsylvania.

Stetson Kennedy

His contribution to the preservation and propagation of folk culture is the subject of a dissertation, "Stetson Kennedy: Applied Folklore and Cultural Advocacy" (University of Pennsylvania, 1992), by Peggy Bulger, who assumed the directorship of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress in 1999.

Tel Michal

Besides the Institute of Archaeology at Tel Aviv, participating institutions included the University of Minnesota Duluth, Brigham Young University, the University of Pennsylvania, the Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, Hamline University, the Central Michigan University and Macquarie University of North Ryde, Australia.

Who Stole Feminism?

In contrast, University of Pennsylvania professor Nina Auerbach excoriated the work for The New York Times Book Review, asserting that Sommers was a "muddled writer".

William R. Brody

This was postponed to March 3, 2009 upon Hopkins naming Ronald Daniels, the provost of the University of Pennsylvania its next President.

Wyższa Szkoła Menedżerska w Legnicy

The university is cooperating with the University of Pennsylvania in the area of multicultural theory of leadership with 61 academic units from all over the world.

Yakov Eliashberg

He delivered the Porter Lectures at Rice University (1992), the Rademacher Lectures at the University of Pennsylvania (1996), the Marston Morse Lectures at the Institute for Advanced Study (1996), the Frontiers in Mathematics Lectures at Texas A&M University (1997), and the Marker Lectures at Pennsylvania State University (2000).