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JoAnn McCarthy is the new face of Penn’s international relations, as of March 1. McCarthy has been appointed Assistant Provost for International Affairs, and will work to develop and implement Penn’s global strategy, oversee initiatives to increase visibility in the international arena and encourage and promote international activities through the University, among other duties.
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“They’re second-tier athletes who would like to be in the first tier.”
—H. Lee Sweeney, chairman of physiology at the Penn School of Medicine, on the athletes who e-mail him inquiring whether gene therapy could make them better. Gene therapy, some say, could becoming a new doping fad, but Sweeney and others warn the practice has its dangers. (The Toronto Star, Jan. 16, 2005)
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Will Bush ‘overplay’ his hand?
The so-called “third rail” of politics is hardly a taboo subject these days. President Bush and members of his administration are working hard to advance a plan to partially privatize Social Security. Though short on specifics, Bush’s plan would allow workers to invest a portion of their payroll tax in the stock market, which would offset what they’ve called a looming crisis.
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Penn on the waterfront
Take one five-mile stretch of waterfront, mix in a forward-thinking mayor and two groups of creative, resourceful students, and what do you get? A collection of creative plans for the re-use of the Delaware River waterfront in the suburb of Bensalem—plus a rewarding experience for high school and graduate students.
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Out & About: A stroll left of center
Once a month, art galleries in Philadelphia throw open their doors to welcome the public late into the night while local jazz acts perform at restaurants and galleries for a nominal fee. In Old City, it happens on the first Friday of every month. In the Powelton Village section of University City, it happens on the second.
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Bookquick/“Art in a Season of Revolution Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America”
This lushly illustrated book about art-making in the 18th century positions both well-known painters and unknown artisans within the framework of their economic lives, their families and the geographies through which they moved. “Art in a Season of Revolution” departs from standard practice and re-situates painters as artisans. Moreover, it gives equal play to the lives of the makers and the lives of the objects, studying both within the interdependent social and economic webs linking workers, theorists, suppliers and patrons throughout the mercantile Atlantic.
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Enjoying a 'peculiar' retirement
Since her retirement, Ruth Schwartz Cowan’s career has really taken off. Not too long ago, frustrated with her job at the State University of New York at Stony Brook—a place that often made her feel, she says, like an academic “outlier,” despite her sterling reputation as a historian of science and technology— Cowan decided it was time to move on.
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Penn Appoints Michael Harris as Associate Vice President in the Office of the Executive Vice President
PHILADELPHIA -- Michael E. Harris has been appointed associate vice president in the Office of the Executive Vice President at the University of Pennsylvania. He assumes his new position Feb. 1.
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Two Penn Startups Receive Seed Funding from the Biotechnology Greenhouse of Southeastern Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA -- Two new companies based on technologies developed at the University of Pennsylvania are among the seven start-ups receiving seed capital today from BioAdvance, the Biotechnology Greenhouse of Southeastern Pennsylvania. Avid Radiopharmaceuticals, which develops diagnostic tools for Alzheimer disease, and Marillion Pharmaceuticals, which creates target cancer chemotherapies, will each receive $500,000 as part of the Greenhouse fund third cycle of investment.
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“Sam Maitin: A Life in Art” at Penn’s Arthur Ross Gallery: Tribute to a Celebrated Philadelphia Artist
PHILADELPHIA -- "Sam Maitin: A Life in Art" will be on display Feb. 10 through April 17 at the Arthur Ross Gallery, 220 S. 34th St., on the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia. Additional works will be concurrently shown at Steinhardt Hall, home of Penn Hillel. The Arthur Ross Gallery is open Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Saturday-Sunday, noon-5 p.m. Exhibitions are free and open to the public.