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Penn TCPW to Present Beacon Award to Marjorie Rendell Friday at the Law School
WHO: Marjorie O. Rendell, a judge with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and a 1969 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, will be honored with the 2005 Beacon Award from the Trustees' Council of Penn Women.WHAT: TCPW's Beacon Award, presented only six times in the past 18 years, recognizes an individual whose dedication and commitment to issues affecting women have achieved results.WHERE: Levy Conference Room, 2nd Floor, Penn Law School, 3400 Chestnut St., Philadelphia
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Beacon Award at Penn Will Go to Marjorie O. Rendell
PHILADELPHIA -- Marjorie O. Rendell, a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit since 1997, will receive the 2005 Beacon Award from the University of Pennsylvania's Trustees' Council of Penn Women during a luncheon ceremony April 15.TCPW's Beacon Award, presented only six times in the past 18 years, recognizes an individual whose dedication and commitment to issues affecting women have achieved results.
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Women's Health Summit at Penn Explores Safe Womanhood in an Unsafe World
PHILADELPHIA -- In an initiative to generate new solutions to improve the plight of women across the globe, the University of Pennsylvania is convening the Penn Summit on Global Issues in Women's Health: Safe Womanhood in an Unsafe World, April 25-26. The summit will bring together world leaders in health, human rights, law and education to discuss far-ranging topics that relate directly to the safety and well being of women worldwide. The meeting is led jointly by Penn's School of Nursing and School of Medicine.
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Penn's Arthur Ross Gallery Presents Burmese Textiles from Two Prominent Collections
PHILADELPHIA -Four ethnic clusters from two major American collections are the focus of "Textiles of the Burma Hills" at the University of Pennsylvania Arthur Ross Gallery, 220 S. 34th St., April 23-June 26. The selection of traditional textiles on view provides a window to the minority cultures of the hill tribes.
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Cognitive Therapy Works As Well As Antidepressants, But With Lasting Effect After Therapy Ends
PHILADELPHIA -- Cognitive therapy to treat moderate to severe depression works just as well as antidepressants, according to an authoritative report appearing today in the Archives of General Psychiatry. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt University, challenges the American Psychiatric Association guidelines that antidepressant medications are the only effective treatment for moderately to severely depressed patients.
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From Minesweepers to Intelligent Lightbulbs, Student Inventors Shine as PennVention Heads to the Finals
PHILADELPHIA -- A field of 56 has been winnowed to 11 as University of Pennsylvania students compete in PennVention, a contest for teams of Penn students to develop, patent and commericialize their inventions. The inventions range from high tech gadgets to fashionable consumer products, from potentially life-saving devices to an improved medical implant, with teams representing Penn School of Arts and Science, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Law School, School of Nursing and Wharton School.
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Tsunami aid—the long view
EDUCATION/Penn offers educational expertise to tsunami recovery. So many donations have poured into aid agencies helping the victims of the Southeast Asia tsunami that some groups have stopped requesting funds. Others have begun turning them away. But even after the estimated $12 billion needed for reconstruction is collected, plenty of work will remain, and Penn plans to offer help in an area it knows a little something about—education.
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Lights, cameras and action in Philly
As the 14th annual Philadelphia Film Festival prepares to take up residence downtown and in University City from April 7 through 20, Penn students enrolled in the new cinema studies program are getting ready to hit the theaters to catch films they would never normally see. It¹s a way of making connections between what goes on in the classroom and the outside world of film, says Professor of English and Director of the Cinema Studies Program Timothy Corrigan. It tells the students, "What we¹re doing here is not a hothouse activity. Let¹s get out in the streets."
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Out & About: Back to basics
Let's say youíve worked at Penn for a while and know the neighborhood pretty well. You know where to find ginger-pomegranate green tea, sea salt face scrub and gourmet chocolates, and you know where to go for an eco-friendly gift or a new suit. But do you know where to go for the basic necessities most of us need on a daily basis? Do you know where to pick up clear fingernail polish to stop a run in your stocking? Where to fill up your tank before you battle the rush hour traffic home? Where to buy a spontaneous bouquet of flowers for your sweetie?
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Shaping the future of Fresh Kills
Landscape architecture has come of age in recent years, and it’s a transformation James Corner, chair of Penn’s landscape architecture department, is only too happy to see. Yes, he says, practitioners in the field still design parks and gardens and open spaces, but increasingly they’re also being called on to reinvent blast furnace sites, former strip mines and other post-industrial remains that “nobody knows what to do with.”