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A high-tech home
When the sparkling new Skirkanich Hall opens next month, it will do more than just give Penn engineers access to world-class lab space. It will also finally give Penn’s stellar bioengineering department a real home—which is something the department, and several of its faculty, hasn’t had for some time. “There is one researcher right now whose office is down at 30th and Market streets,” says Ira Winston, director of facilities for Penn Engineering. “We have some faculty in Hayden, some in Towne, and some don’t have labs at all.”
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Four Penn Professors Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
PHILADELPHIA -- Four professors at the University of Pennsylvania are among the 195 members of the 2006 Class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1780, the Academy is an independent policy research center that brings together scholars, scientists, artists and civic, corporate and philanthropic leaders to study complex and emerging problems.
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Fischl on the body
Top Stories Penn’s annual impact? $9.6B, report says Fischl on the body
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Morris Arboretum
Take advantage of the long days and warm evenings by visiting the Morris Arboretum’s Garden Railway. Opening on June 17, the railway is a miniature world set in a beautiful summer garden, with historic buildings, train tunnels and overhead trestles made entirely of natural materials. Train enthusiasts can bring their kids (and a picnic dinner) to the Arboretum on June 21, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., for a celebration of the new railway, “Fairy Tale Rail II.” Kids are encouraged to dress up.
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Out and About: Wyeth’s worlds
As well as being one of the most celebrated artists in America, Andrew Wyeth, now 88 years old, is one of our own, a Chester County native who still calls Chadds Ford home. For that reason alone, a major exhibit of his work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art stirs a certain amount of interest.
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Penn triples wind power purchase
Top Stories Penn’s annual impact? $9.6B, report says Fischl on the body
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For The Record: The rites of spring
Beginning in the 1920s, Penn’s female students welcomed in spring with dancing, song and the crowning of a May Queen. The May Day tradition is no longer in practice, but in its heyday, the celebration included a procession, dancing, pantomime—which the women’s student newspaper, Bennett News, called “a whimsical affair”—and, finally, the crowning of the queen whose identity was “cloaked in mystery” until the celebrations of May Day.
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John MacDermott
WHO HE IS: Director for Instructional Technology, SAS Computing YEARS AT PENN: 18, on and off. WHAT HE DOES: MacDermott oversees computing support for several humanities departments, but his specialty is “instructional uses of technology.” That means supervising the computer labs, helping with online instruction and overseeing support for users of Blackboard, an online course management system.
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Movable Feast: Zocalo
Top Stories Ask Benny: What's the oldest tree on campus?