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2006 Commencement Events
Sunday, May 14 UNIVERSITY-WIDE EVENTS BACCALAUREATE CEREMONY: Speaker: Marc Morial, president and CEO of National Urban League. 1 and 3 p.m. in Irvine Auditorium, 3401 Spruce St. SCHOOL CEREMONIES
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Pick up the phone Penn’s non-commercial, member-supported radio station WXPN is planning its Spring Fund Drive June 6-12 and needs friendly volunteers. Sign up to answer phones, take donations and provide membership information to callers. Shifts run 3 to 4 hours. Food and drinks are provided. For more information, contact Melissa Brown, volunteer coordinator at 215-746-5457 or go to www.xpn.org/volunteer.php. Crossing disciplines
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A growing campus
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Art in the open
Domus, the eight-story luxury apartment building under construction at 34th and Chestnut streets, will have plenty of eye-catching features when its finished, from a heated outdoor pool to 10-foot-high apartment ceilings. Here’s one more: A dramatic installation by renowned performance artist, sculptor and photographer Dennis Oppenheim. The work, titled “Wave Forms,” will liven up the building’s outdoor plaza with steel sculptural forms, a design incorporated into the paving and plantings for all seasons.
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Study finds Boston mass transit difficult for disabled
It’s rare that a company will commit to spending hundreds of millions of dollars based on the findings of one study. But that’s just what happened when Boston’s transit system, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, agreed to spend $310 million improving access to trains and buses, in part because of a study by Ross Koppel, a lecturer and adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology.
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Staff Q&A: Isabel Boston
STAFF Q&A/Twenty years after leaving college to start a family, Isabel Boston took a job at Penn—and soon started the long journey of finishing her degree. “I thought I’d be a fool not to do it.” Ask Isabel Boston what it’s like to go back to college after a 20-year absence—taking Ivy League courses in everything from Medieval music to Latin while also balancing a husband, five kids, and a day job—and she’ll tell you: It’s really hard.
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Alice Parker
WHO SHE IS: Accounting Clerk, Department of Transportation and Parking YEARS AT PENN: 12. Parker started her Penn career as a temporary employee.
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Artists in residence
Taking up residence from May 12 through June 5 in the ICEBOX Project Space—a new visual arts gallery in Fishtown—is a collection that includes hand-cut paper mandalas, a light-based installation and, at right, the delicate charcoal work, “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” by Phillip Adams. Intrigued? You should be, since this is the work of recent Penn MFA recipients. Work by 19 emerging artists—selected by Institute of Contemporary Art Senior Curator Ingrid Schaffner—is feaured in the show, including painting, video and performance, photographs and sculptures.
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Penn's David Brainard to Receive Macbeth Award for Research on the Psychology of Color
PHILADELPHIA -- David Brainard, professor and chair of the Department of Psychology in the University of Pennsylvanias School of Arts and Sciences, is the recipient of the 2006 Macbeth Award, chosen by the Inter-Society Color Council for his ground- breaking research on how people experience the phenomena of color. Brainard will receive the award May 14 at the society's 75th Anniversary Annual Meeting in Ottawa.
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Looking east
We’ve been hearing about the “Postal Lands” for a while now, and finally, next spring, the University will officially acquire the 24 acres of real estate that stretches between the campus and the river and includes the 30th Street Post Office Building and Postal Annex. Taking possession of the Postal Lands is a very big deal, says Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli, who, with Provost Ron Daniels, heads up the Campus Development Planning Committee.