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43 unusual facts about University of Pennsylvania


Amish doll

Wide interest in collecting Amish crafts began in the 1930s, and in 1939, Cornelius Weygandt, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, described his collection of Amish and Mennonite dolls, praising the "painstaking fidelity" of their costumes.

Bill Straub

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

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.

Castle an Dinas, St Columb Major

During the early 1960s it was excavated by a team led by Dr. Bernard Wailes of the University of Pennsylvania during two seasons of excavation.

Christopher S. Koper

Previously a research criminologist at the University of Pennsylvania's Jerry Lee Center of Criminology and the Firearm and Injury Center and the Director of Research at the Police Executive Research Forum, Koper specializes in research pertaining to firearms and gun violence, policing, research and statistical methodology, and white-collar crime.

Correlation does not imply causation

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

Corrupted Blood incident

Doctor Gary Smith, professor of Population Biology and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania, commented that very few mathematical models of disease transmission take host behavior into account, but also questioned how representative of real life a virtual model could be.

Edward Dewhurst

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

Electrochemical fatigue crack sensor

The technology behind EFS was devised by researchers from the U.S. Air Force and the University of Pennsylvania for use in the aerospace industry.

Hakim Warrick

Even with his high school's proximity to the City 6, comprising Division I programs Penn, St. Joseph's, Temple, LaSalle, Drexel, and Villanova, none of those schools heavily recruited Warrick.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mark Liberman

He has a dual appointment at the University of Pennsylvania, as Trustee Professor of Phonetics in the Department of Linguistics, and as a professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences.

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.

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.

Model Congress

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

Nazarbayev University

The Graduate School of Education has two international partner institutions: the Faculty of Education at Cambridge University and the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.

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 Sumerian Dictionary

It is run out of the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and funded by both private donors and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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.

Peter Wuffli

He is a Swiss citizen and a graduate of the University of St. Gallen (1981, doctorate 1984) and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (1989).

Philadelphia History Museum

They were joined in their efforts by the president of the University of Pennsylvania, the director of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the president of the Franklin Institute.

Property law

James Wilson, U.S. Supreme Court Justice and professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, in 1790 and 1791, undertook a survey of the philosophical grounds of American property law.

Reginald Ho

After graduating from Notre Dame, Ho attended medical school at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Shanghai Commercial Bank

Historically, the Shanghai Commercial Bank was originally founded in Shanghai in 1915 under the leadership of Mr. K.P. Chen (1881–1976), a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance.

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.

Stefan Fatsis

He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985 with a degree in American Civilization.

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.

University of Pennsylvania v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Rosalie Tung, then an associate professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, was denied a tenure position by a tenure review board.

Visual system

A 2006 University of Pennsylvania study calculated the approximate bandwidth of human retinas to be about 8960 kilobits per second, whereas guinea pig retinas transfer at about 875 kilobits.

We Are Smarter Than Me

Along with Pearson, the project's four core sponsors include research institutes of the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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

William Chandler Shrubsall

He served 16 months for that crime, as he was still a minor, and afterwards supposedly graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994, transferring there from two years at Niagara University.

William McCauley

After leaving Michigan, McCauely was a student in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania.

William Wilberforce Newton

Born 1843 in Philadelphia, son of Richard Newton and Lydia Gretorex, Newton studied at the University of Pennsylvania graduating in 1865.

Wroe Alderson

He began his business career at the U.S. department of Commerce, founded the internationally prominent marketing consulting firm of Alderson Associates, and served as a professor at Wharton University of Pennsylvania after joining it in 1959.


Albert Tobias Clay

He graduated at Franklin and Marshall College in 1889, and at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in 1892; was ordained to the Lutheran ministry in the latter year; was fellow in Assyrian and instructor in Hebrew at the University of Pennsylvania, to which, after being instructor in Old Testament theology at the Chicago Lutheran Seminary in 1895-99, he returned as lecturer in Semitic archæology.

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.

Anna Pou case

University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Arthur Caplan also stated that all nine of the deaths were homicides; the administration of the drugs was "not consistent with the ethical standards of palliative care that prevail in the United States," precisely in that the death of a patient must not be the goal of a doctor's treatment; and death, in his opinion, was the goal in these in cases.

Asad Naqvi

After completing his formal education, he held post-doctoral positions at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Amsterdam before joining the University of Wales, Swansea in October 2005 as an assistant professor.

Bill McDermott

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

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.

Chinedum Ndukwe

In 2008 Ndukwe attended the Harvard Business School, followed by the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in 2009 for the NFL Business Management Program.

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.

David Shepherd Nivison

Key to the Chronology of the Three Dynasties: The "Modern Text" Bamboo Annals, Philadelphia: Dept. of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1999.

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.

Foundation for New Era Philanthropy

After successfully completing that match, many major organizations such as the Philadelphia Public Library and the University of Pennsylvania joined, along with churches and other Christian organizations.

Genetically modified mouse

In 1981 the laboratories of Frank Ruddle from Yale, Frank Constantini and Elizabeth Lacy from Oxford, and Ralph Brinster and Richard Palmiter in collaboration from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Washington injected purified DNA into a single-cell mouse embryo utilizing techniques developed by Brinster in the 1960s and 1970s, showing transmission of the genetic material to subsequent generations.

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.

Givology

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

Helen Codere

Her academic years spanned over fifty years and included professorships at Vassar College, the University of British Columbia, Northwestern University, Bennington College, and the University of Pennsylvania.

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.

Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit

These consortium members included the three commercial partners GE Corporate R&D, Kitware, Inc., and MathSoft (the company name is now Insightful); and the three academic partners University of North Carolina (UNC), University of Tennessee (UT), and University of Pennsylvania (UPenn).

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.

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).

Kristin Hunter

Hunter was born Kristin Eggleston in Philadelphia, attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she received her bachelor's degree in Education (1951), and wrote for the Pittsburgh Courier, a black newspaper, until 1952.

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.

Model Congress

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

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.

Noel B. Salazar

Salazar studied psychology, philosophy, and development studies at the University of Leuven (Belgium), neuropsychology at the University of Essex (UK), and anthropology and African studies at the University of Pennsylvania (US).

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.

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.

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).

Slought Foundation

Since opening in Philadelphia in 2002 adjacent to the University of Pennsylvania, Slought Foundation has featured international figures such as Dennis Oppenheim, Werner Herzog, Helene Cixous, Hermann Nitsch, William Anastasi, Arakawa + Gins, Braco Dimitrijevic, and Lorand Hegyi.

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.

Tenth Presbyterian Church

Notable members have included C. Everett Koop, Surgeon General of the United States during the Reagan administration and one-time head of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

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 Craig Rice

After his studies at the University of Virginia, he taught at the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, at Temple University, and at the University of Pennsylvania; and then undertook graduate studies at the University of Michigan.