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Studying Sugar Ray
As a kid growing up in Los Angeles, Kenneth Shropshire knew quite a bit about Sugar Ray Robinson, both the boxer and the Hollywood showman.
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Behold RAVI-Bot! Penn Students Build Improvisational Robot That Plays Classical Indian Music
PHILADELPHIA -- RAVI-bot, a senior design project built by mechanical engineering students of the University of Pennsylvania, is an electromechanical, robotic sitar that mimics the techniques and improvisational style of the North Indian Hindustani classical stringed instrument.Part of ArtBots 2007, an international robotic talent show held this year in Philadelphia, RAVI-Bot will be on display beginning April 13 at the Esther M. Klein Art Gallery at the University City Science Center, 3701 Market St. in Philadelphia.
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Thomas W. Evans
Photo credit: University Archives Penn Dental’s Evans Building is named after the school’s first major benefactor, Thomas W. Evans, a man who lived most of his life on the other side of the Atlantic, in Paris, France.
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Head case
Penn Bookstore Assistant General Manager Steve Schatten measures the head of Graduate School of Education student Hannah Tran for her graduation cap. Photo credit: Mark Stehle
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Royalty fees may hurt webcasters, including WXPN
Roger LaMay says WXPN has no problem paying royalty fees to the artists it plays on its airwaves and webcasts. So long as those fees are reasonable. Unfortunately, says LaMay, a recent ruling by the federal Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) is downright unreasonable—and if the ruling is upheld, the future of webcasting will be put in serious peril.
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Researchers link water pollution, invasive plants
Candace diCarlo Drive up I-476 to the northeast corner of Pennsylvania and it’s easy to find pristine lakes and ponds—beautiful bodies of water that look the same today as they did decades ago.
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Penn's Annenberg Public Policy Center Hosts Online Philadelphia Mayoral Primary Primer
PHILADELPHIA -- The Annenberg Public Policy Center's Student Voices - Philadelphia website, student-voices.org/local.php?SiteID=10, is a virtual one-stop clearinghouse of information designed to help Philadelphia voters make informed choices on primary election day, May 15.
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The Henry Charles Lea Library
Where: 6th floor of Van Pelt Library Why: Because this magnificent wood-paneled library, complete with a fireplace, leaded skylight and 7,000 books was moved in its entirety from Dr. Lea’s Center City brownstone, creating an art-museum-worthy “period room” in the midst of Van Pelt’s sleek, modern spaces.
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The danger of extremism
Extremism seems to be everywhere these days, from the inflammatory political rhetoric of “us” vs. “them” to the abject poverty found in some of this nation’s cities and towns. And the extremist rhetoric and acute inequality are only getting worse, said Penn President Amy Gutmann, speaking at a March 30 conference sponsored by Penn’s Fontaine Society and Graduate Student Center. The solution, she believes, may lie in education.
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Peggy Dever
The Current Staff Photo credit: Mark Stehle NAME: Peggy Dever YEARS AT PENN: 3 WHO SHE IS: Hard Surface Custodian, Housekeeping What she does: “We clean up and empty trash. I have a certain area, Levy Park and Penn Commons.” WHY GOOD WEATHER MEANS MORE WORK: “When you get a nice day you get a lot of trash. People enjoy being out.”