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Penn Announces Vice President of Finance/Treasurer
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania has appointed Scott R. Douglass vice president for finance and treasurer. He currently serves as senior associate dean for finance and administration of Penn's Wharton School.
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Penn Report Challenges View that U.S. Students Are Losing Ground Internationally
PHILADELPHIA -- An analysis of major international achievement surveys since 1990 shows that, while the U.S. may not be first in the world in terms of education, U.S. students generally perform above average, according to Erling Boe, a professor in the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education.Among the biggest problems with many international surveys is the fact that they make inaccurate or unfair comparisons, Boe said.
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Penn Presents A Shocking Display For The Holidays: Electricity and Magnetism Demo for Area Students
WHAT: The 8th Annual University of Pennsylvania Physics Demonstration Show for area high school students. WHO: Santa Claus and the staff of the physics demonstration lab at Penn Department of Physics and Astronomy. WHERE: University of Pennsylvania, David Rittenhouse Laboratory, Lecture Hall A1, 33rd & Walnut Streets, PhiladelphiaWHEN: 9:30 1:30 a.m. and 12:00 2:00 p.m., Monday, Dec. 1312:00 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 14
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Analyzing Freud
Freud could have used an analyst. That’s according to University of Chicago philosopher and psychoanalyst Jonathan Lear, who spoke at Logan Hall Nov. 17 as part of the Penn Humanities Forum on Sleep and Dreams.
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Hitting the books
As Board Chairman Emeritus of Pearl S. Buck International and author of the acclaimed book, “Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography” (Cambridge, 1996), Interim Provost Peter Conn is the natural person to ask about Buck and her work. Apparently, Oprah Winfrey thinks so, too. Conn, who is also the Andrea Mitchell Term Professor of English, is acting as principal literary consultant to “Oprah’s Book Club”as the TV magnate and her viewers read the Buck classic, “The Good Earth.”
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Penn Playbook: Drexel win a hoops turning point?
After what could only be described as a turbulent start to its 2004 season, the Penn men’s basketball team found its footing in a late November matchup with West Philly rival Drexel. And it seemed, at least as of this printing, that the win may have marked an early turning point to the Quakers’ season.
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Come into my house
If you’re interested in the history of footwear, you’ll find a good selection—from Egyptian burial sandals to the ’70s platforms Sally Struthers wore in “All in the Family”—at Philadelphia’s Shoe Museum. If history’s your thing, be sure to stop by the Declaration (Graff) House, a replica of the residence where Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. And if you’re an art lover eager to see one of the area’s finest collections of contemporary art, the Pennsylvania Convention Center has the goods.
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University City hosts Winterfest University City District and Class of 1923 Ice Rink will host the 7th Annual Winterfest on Thursday, December 16th from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. For an admission fee of a dollar you’ll get complimentary cocoa, fountain sodas and holiday treats, plus free skate rental. For more information, visit www.ucityphila.org or contact Lori Klein Brennan at 215-243-0555. Bookstore offers chance to win
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AWARDS & HONORS
Albert J. Stunkard, professor emeritus of Psychiatry, has been awarded the 2004 Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health by the Institute of Medicine. The $20,000 prize was awarded for Stunkard’s contributions to psychiatry and mental health, particularly for his research on eating disorders.
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Diet for a dysfunctional planet
At the age of three, Anna Lappé accompanied her mother—“Diet for a Small Planet” author Francis Moore Lappé—on a research trip to Guatemala. Mother and daughter have taken many trips since then, including a journey round the world to explore food systems, hunger and poverty. That odyssey led in 2002 to “Hope’s Edge,” a sequel of sorts to “Small Planet.”