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"Red Flags" Save Failing Students
A second semester senior with only two courses to complete fell into a serious clinical depression and was unable to complete his work and graduate that spring. Thanks to the alert faculty member who passed his name on to Alice Kelley, the faculty liaison to Student Services and an associate professor of English, the student returned to Penn in the fall to complete his degree, took five courses and got A's in all of them.
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Look Here: Best Art on Campus
We asked two experts to pick their favorite campus treasures. David Brownlee's List Brownlee is professor and graduate chairman of Penn's history of art department. Fisher Fine Arts Library (Furness Building), Frank Furness - architect - 1888-91, 220 S. 34th St. Frank Furness, in solving the problems posed by a modern library, also created a work that physically embraces the viewer with great, almost animal-like power--and captures the imagination in the process.
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Why Other Railroads are Wooing Conrail
After being quoted in several articles on the would-be Conrail merger, UPS Foundation Professor of Transportation and Professor of Systems Engineering Edward K. Morlok seemed like the right man to answer our questions about why we, as nonshareholders, should care about which suitor--CSX or Norfolk Southern--won Conrail's hand. He did answer our questions, and now we do care. Q. Why are Norfolk Southern and CSX pursuing Conrail?
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Still Publishing Significant Scholarship
The best seller at the University of Pennsylvania Press is "Witchcraft in Europe," by Alan Kors and Ed Peters, which has sold 15,000 copies in 25 years. "It's a perennial," says Eric Halpern, director of the Press, "It's heavily used in courses." But the mission of university presses in general, and Penn's press in particular, is broader than printing academic bestsellers. It's to "advance the scholastic and educational aims of the University," Halpern says. That's not to say that salability doesn't count. No profits, no press.
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Field Trip From the Moon
Geologist and former U.S. Sen. Harrison Schmitt (left), a member of the Apollo 17 lunar mission, displays a poster commemorating all the American astronauts who traveled to the Moon at a meeting of the Philadelphia Science and Space Club in David Rittenhouse Laboratory. Schmitt spent the afternoon of Feb. 7 at Penn, speaking to an audience of Penn students at the University Museum prior to meeting with the 9- to 13-year-old members of the Science and Space Club, which meets monthly at Penn.
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On the Shelf
As Penn faculty publish books, an occasional column appears on these pages to inform the University community of new releases. The Meaning of Photography "The age of mechanical reproduction begins with photography. Its discovery not only stands as one of the most important and signature events of the Industrial Revolution, it represents the first analog medium, predating recorded sound by nearly 40 years and the motion picture by over half a century."
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Future Physicians Practice Disabilities
Twenty Penn medical students assumed the roles of people with disabilities and their caregivers or their support people, among them (left to right) Joseph Pace, Sue Sun Yom, Mike Ganetsky, Jason Stoller, Adam Simmons, Su-Jean Seo, Kevin White, Jolanda White, Malaka Jackson and Louis Littman for a two-day seminar to increase awareness among future physicians of the challenges experienced by people with disabilities.
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Kidnapped by Books
"A book is like a burr. It's got to challenge you and make you think and keep making you think. Books have been my best friend. I was an only child and I was kidnapped by books." The speaker, book artist Susan Barron, was not alone. She was surrounded by people kidnapped by books. Twenty-five of them. And she was surrounded by books--on witchcraft and the Inquisition.
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To the Wire for Quiz Kids
The buzzer sounded. Regulation play had ended. The whole crowd sat on the edge of their seats waiting to see who would be declared the winner of the first ever National Academic Quiz Tournament (NAQT). Run similarly to the NCAA basketball tournament, the competition started at Penn Friday, with 64 college teams answering batteries of questions on topics ranging from classical studies to modern rock music a la the old "College Bowl" television show. And now it was down to this.
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Innovation Corner: Professional Development and Quality of Work Life: New Programs for Penn Employees
The University has begun a major effort over the past year to broaden the range of programs it offers to address employee development, job satisfaction and the quality of work life at Penn. In the Agenda for Excellence, Penn stated its commitment to "provide administrative employees with greater opportunities to improve their skills, grow professionally, and enhance their careers within the University." Following a lengthy examination of existing employee-related programs,