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At Work With...Nikki Cyter

Dalí the dreamer

When she began research on a book about Salvador Dalí Ingrid Schaffner says she was sometimes embarrassed to admit to people what she was working on. Though Dalí may beat even Picasso to the title of best-known-artist ever, his reputation in the art world has never caught up with his fame. The artist’s endless self promotion, his zeal for pop culture and his willingness to caricature himself were, says Schaffner, “all things artists weren’t supposed to do,” and consequently his stock has faltered among the high art cognoscenti.

Penn School of Design Partnering with City of Philadelphia and Philadelphia Daily News to Handle Legalized Gambling Issues

Penn School of Design Partnering with City of Philadelphia and Philadelphia Daily News to Handle Legalized Gambling IssuesWHO:Penn School of Design students, Philadelphia Daily News,Mayor John Street, architect Stan EckstutWHAT:Planning session about legalized gambling in PennsylvaniaWHEN:Feb. 10-13, 2005WHERE:University of Pennsylvania campusThe University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Daily News are partners in a project to work on city planning and design issues involving legalized gambling in Pennsylvania.  

Self-Assembled Nano-Sized Probes Allow Penn Researchers to See Tumors Through Flesh and Skin

PHILADELPHIA -- Nano-sized particles embedded with bright, light-emitting molecules have enabled researchers to visualize a tumor more than one centimeter below the skin surface using only infrared light.  A team of chemists, bioengineers and medical researchers based at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Minnesota has lodged fluorescent materials called porphyrins within the surface of a polymersome, a cell-like vesicle, to image a tumor within a living rodent.

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Women of color luncheon on tap

At Work With...La Tanya Love

What’s On

Performances/Lectures/Events   JAN. 27 - FEB. 9 Thursday, Jan. 27 TALKS   LET’S HAVE LUNCH: Writers House Program Coordinator Tom Devaney (“Letters to Ernesto Neto,” 2004) hosts a lunch and conversation from noon to 1 p.m. at Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk. RSVP required to wh@writing.upenn.edu. Info: 215-573-WRIT or www.writing.upenn.edu/~wh/.

Hearing voices

Poets, says Al Filreis, are a technologically savvy bunch. That’s one reason the Penn English professor is so optimistic about PennSound, the web-based sound archive he’s created with fellow English professor Charles Bernstein that makes MP3 files of poetry readings available to anyone who cares to download them.

Ask Benny: Are those Roman ruins really Roman?

Dear Benny, I often walk past the Chemistry Building and canít help but notice what seems to be a collection of some old Roman-looking columns sitting in a little courtyard. Are those actually Roman ruins? If so, where did they come from?—Curious about columns

Movable Feast: A fine array of soups to keep winter chills at bay

Whether we eat chicken soup when we’re sick, mulligatawny with our curry, or miso soup with a side of sushi, it’s clear that soup is truly a universal dish. Hot soup is a mainstay of small cafes, diners and fine restaurants everywhere, and in the winter, it seems to warm the belly like nothing else. Around Penn, you’ll find a wide array of fine soups—from the simple to the unique—at restaurants and food carts alike. Here’s a sampling.