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The science of teaching
Q&A/The winner of this year’s Ira H. Abrams Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching talks about why clarity is so important, how he learned to accept his own blunders—and why he still gets nervous. When Paul Sniegowski got the call telling him he’d won the School of Arts and Science’s top teaching award for 2005, his mind began reeling. Sniegowski had forgotten all about the award.
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2005 Commencement Events
Saturday, May 14 SCHOOL CEREMONIES EDUCATION: Doctoral Hooding Ceremony, 3 p.m., Penn Museum, 3260 South St. FELS INSTITUTE OF GOVERNMENT: Ceremony and reception at 5 p.m., Fels Institute of Government, 3814 Walnut St. Sunday, May 15 UNIVERSITY-WIDE EVENTS BACCALAUREATE CEREMONY:Speaker: Eboo Patel, founder and executive director of Interfaith Youth Core. 1 and 3 p.m. in Irvine Auditorium, 34th and Spruce sts.
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Top Stories Look, just don't eat Running with the stats
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Penn's President Amy Gutmann to Deliver Commencement Address at Wesleyan University
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. - University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann will deliver the May 22 commencement address to 850 graduates at Wesleyan University during the school's 173rd commencement exercises.Gutmann also will be one of four people to receive honorary degrees from Wesleyan that day.
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Penn Partners with Philadelphia Orchestra to Bring Recitals and Music Lessons to Students in Dorms
PHILADELPHIA -The University of Pennsylvania Music Department and the Philadelphia Orchestra are tuning up to make beautiful music together -- not in concert halls but in College Houses. Philadelphia Orchestra musicians will be coming to the Penn campus to give informal recitals for students "where they live" as part of the Orchestra Raising the Invisible Curtain Program.
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Donald Kettl Named Director of Fels Institute of Government at Penn
PHILADELPHIA-- Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences Rebecca Bushnell has announced that Donald Kettl, professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named director of the 68-year-old Fels Institute of Government at Penn. He will assume the post July 1.
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Kofi Annan, Five Others to Receive Honorary Degrees During Penn's 249th Commencement May 16
WHAT: University of Pennsylvania's 249th Commencement ceremony WHO: U.N. Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan will present the main commencement address and receive an honorary doctor of laws degree.Other honorary degree recipients are Grammy-award winning musician and producer Quincy Jones, philosopher Saul A. Kripke, Comcast founder Ralph J. Roberts, journalist Judy Woodruff and Nancy Fugate Woods, dean of the University of Washington School of Nursing.WHERE: Franklin Field, 33rd and South streets
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Penn Partnership Schools Present "Strings for Schools" Student Concert
Penn Partnership Schools Present "Strings for Schools" Student ConcertWHO:Strings for Schools and children from West Philadelphia Penn Partnership Elementary Schools WHAT:Community concertWHEN:Thursday, May 19, 9:30 a.m.WHERE: Lea School auditorium, 47th and Locust streets
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Clutch Hitters and Choke Hitters: Myth or Reality?
PHILADELPHIA Sports announcers already know it, and now Elan Fuld has proven it: clutch hitters really do exist. The 21-year-old University of Pennsylvania junior studied the phenomenon of clutch hitting in baseball, and his calculations provided statistical evidence that players such as Eddie Murray, Frank Duffy and Luis Gomez were clutch hitters.A surprising finding in the study was that Bill Buckner, who has gone down in history as one of the game's worst "choke artists" for his Game 6 World Series error, was statistically proven to be a clutch hitter.