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Buzz Bissinger prays for the city
Pulitzer Prize winner, best-selling author and Penn graduate Buzz Bissinger has vivid memories of the kinds of images and emotions a city should evoke, and they're not of lavish stage shows or Center City glitz or the posh retail and restaurant emporiums of Walnut Street. "I'm a product of cities; they're places that are alive, that when you're walking down the street, they're an onslaught upon the senses," Bissinger said. "And I do fear that's being lost."
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John Glick
For more than a decade, John Glick, M.D., has served as director of the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center. Last month he was named director of the newly established $100 million Leonard and Madlyn Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute within Penn's Cancer Center. "As a cancer survivor for 12 years, I understand the importance of patient-centered approaches in research and clinical activities," said Madlyn Abramson. "To that end, personalized and compassionate care will be the goal of all Abramson Institute efforts."
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Provost committee reports secondaryviolations in Marrow eligibility
The University, on Jan 2, self-reported violations of the NCAA Bylaws to the Ivy League, the result of a student-athlete practicing and playing in Penn football games this fall while not enrolled full-time. "A cardinal principle of [our] athletic programs is that participation in sports and games be strictly, in all respects, by the rules," said Provost Stanley Chodorow in his report to the Ivy League. "Penn strives to teach its athletes, from their first day on campus, that playing fairly is as important as playing well.
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Foreign exchange Nearly 3,000 of Penn's students come from other countries. That makes Penn 11th in foreign enrollments among U.S. research institutions, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported Dec. 12. The research institution with the highest number of foreign enrollments is Boston University, a school that actively recruits, followed by NYU and USC. In terms of percentages, Penn ranks fifth highest: 2,949 foreign students translates to 13.3 percent of students here. Tops in percentages is Columbia, followed by Harvard. Penn is second among U.S.
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SAS appoints new dean
After conducting a national search, the University named one of its own, Samuel H. Preston, Ph.D., as dean of the School of Arts and Sciences Dec. 18. Preston, the Frederick J. Warren Professor of Demography, known internationally for his population studies, has been on the faculty of the Department of Sociology since 1979, and is long-time director of the Population Studies Center here.
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Rodin to Clinton: More money for research
Penn President Judith Rodin last month asked President Bill Clinton to increase federal investment in basic research. Noting bi-partisan proposals that would double federal support for research in the next 10 years, Rodin called upon Clinton "to take the lead on this issue." Rodin, who serves on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, urged Clinton to boost budgets for science across the board. She noted that investments in science today will determine the quality of our lives in the future.
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Skeleton may be Maya king
Two clues from an ancient skeleton led a research team headed by Professor of Anthropology Robert J. Sharer to think they had an extraordinary find. The researchers were burrowing under the mound of a major Mayan ruin deep in a tropical forest, participating in the Early Copán Acropolis Program, a cooperative effort between the University of Pennsylvania and the Honduran government to explore the mound's interior.
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Roadside Fossil Find Provides Key to the Development of Limbs in Animals
PHILADELPHIA --- Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia have discovered dramatic new evidence of how arms and legs developed from the fins of ancient fish. The evidence was discovered in a rock found in a pile of boulders lying along a busy highway in north-central Pennsylvania.The scientists reported their findings in the Jan. 8 issue of Nature.
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Alum's Moving Documentary Played at IH
An award-winning film at International House caught our eye. Annenberg School of Communication alumna Nilita Vachani documents the life of a domestic worker who struggles to support her own children in Sri Lanka by taking care of someone else's child in Greece. First prize winner at the Festival dei Popoli in Florence, an important documentary film festival, "When Mother Comes Home for Christmas" was screened at numerous international festivals before arriving at Annenberg Feb. 19.
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As Penn faculty publish books, an occasional column appears on these pages to inform the University community of new releases. Modernism as Déja Vu All Over Again A collection of essays by Jean-Michel RabatŽ, Marjorie G. Ernest Term Professor of English, questions whether modernism and postmodernism can be separated from the past, from the future and from each other.