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43 unusual facts about University of Pennsylvania


A. R. Kennedy

He played college football at both the University of Kansas, three seasons from 1895 to 1897 including one as team captain, and at the University of Pennsylvania, for one season in 1899.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jesús T. Piñero

He also attended the School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

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".

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.

Lou Young

He served as the head football coach at the University of Pennsylvania from 1923 to 1929, compiling a record of 49–15–2.

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.

Model Congress

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Richard Root

He launched the infectious disease division at the University of Pennsylvania while a professor there in 1971.

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.

SS Arctic

Henry Hope Reed – Professor of rhetoric and English literature of the University of Pennsylvania, also travelling with him was his sister-in-law Miss Bronson.

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.

University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education

U.S. News & World Report ranked the overall graduate program seventh in the country (tied with the University of Pennsylvania), with three departments—Curriculum & Instruction, Educational Psychology and Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis—receiving the number one ranking in 2006.

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.

Vivian Nickalls

The family had connections and property in the United States, and in 1914 Nickalls went to America to coach at the University of Pennsylvania.

William McCauley

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

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.

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.


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.

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.

Andrew Schultz

He studied at the Universities of Queensland and Pennsylvania and at King's College London and he has received awards, prizes and fellowships including a Fulbright Award (1982), the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award (1985), APRA Award (1993) and the Schueler Award (2007).

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.

Charles Katz

He received a BS in mathematics at Temple University in 1950 and an MS at the University of Pennsylvania in 1953, then went to work at Remington-Rand with Grace Hopper on the development of compilers for her Univac programming languages beginning with A-2, followed by MATH-MATIC and FLOW-MATIC.

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.

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.

Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape

Sojo graduated from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies (ITESM) with a bachelor's degree in Economics and received both a master's degree in Economics and a doctorate in Industrial Organization and Finance from the University of Pennsylvania, where he published several papers on econometrics and time-series with Lawrence Klein, the 1980 laureate of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Emily Frances

After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in communications and a minor in marketing from the Wharton School of Business, she joined the staff at CNN in Atlanta as a production assistant, and covered the Republican National Convention.

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.

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.

George Stuart Fullerton

Fullerton was born at Fatehgarh, India; graduated in 1879 from the University of Pennsylvania and in 1884 from Yale Divinity School; and returned to Pennsylvania to be an instructor, adjunct professor, and dean of the department of philosophy, dean of the college, and vice provost of the university.

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.

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.

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.

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.

James Jay

He was instrumental in obtaining the endowments for Benjamin Franklin's projected college (now the University of Pennsylvania) in Philadelphia (with William Smith, 1755) and King's (now Columbia) College, New York.

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 Diliberto

John grew up in Massachusetts and attended the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he was a DJ on the university-owned public radio station WXPN.

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.

Martha McClintock

McClintock then obtained her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania with Norman Adler in 1974 and obtained a faculty position in the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago in 1976.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Ronald G. Beckett

Following the initial work in the Cardiopulmonary Sciences laboratory, Beckett began to apply endoscopy in concert with radiography on the Max Uhle collection of mummies from Pachacamac Peru at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Shuruppak

In March and April 1931 a joint team of the American Schools of Oriental Research and the University of Pennsylvania excavated Shuruppak for a further six week season with Schmidt as director and with epigraphist Samuel Noah Kramer.

Sohn Kyung-han

Henceforth, he pursued education in the United States; he graduated from University of Pennsylvania, School of Law (LL.M, 1985; SJD abd, 1986), passed the New York Bar in 1986, and became a member of the American Bar Association (1986–2000) and the New York State Bar Association (1998–2007).

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.

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 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.

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.

Younan Xia

Dr. Xia received his PhD degree in physical chemistry from Harvard University (with Professor George M. Whitesides) in 1996, his M.S. degree in inorganic chemistry from University of Pennsylvania (with the late Professor Alan G. MacDiarmid, a Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2000) in 1993, and his B.S. degree in chemical physics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1987.