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Staff Q&A: Jeanne Arnold
Jeanne Arnold says affirmative action is no longer just about ensuring people access to opportunities. That much, she says, is now assured, thanks to laws recently upheld by the Supreme Court.
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Bookquick/“Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents”
“I have been a character in academic fiction at least twice,” Elaine Showalter writes, “once a voluptuous, promiscuous, drug-addicted bohemian, once a prudish, dumpy, judgmental frump. I hope I am not too easily identified in either of these guises . . . although I can tell you that I preferred being cast as the luscious Concord grape to my role as the withered prune.”
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Cool Composer
Anytime you hear a score in a Spike Lee film, chances are, it’s the work of Terence Blanchard. The 41-year-old trumpeter began composing film scores in 1991, for Lee’s “Jungle Fever,” and has continued with last year’s “She Hate Me.” Along the way, Blanchard has snagged several Grammy-award nominations (most recently, for his song, “Lost in a Fog,” from his 2001 release, “Let’s Get Lost”) and has handily composed scores for a few films not directed by Lee, such as 2002’s “Barbershop” and “Love and Basketball” (2000).
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Enron as an omen
Stephen Cooper is in the business of saving businesses. From Polaroid to Enron, Cooper has made a career of rebuilding bankrupt or near-bankrupt companies done in by poor leadership and shoddy business practices. Looking into the future, he doesn’t think he’ll have any problem finding more work.
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Expert Comment on Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Need for Early Detection in Children
Note to TV producers and assignment editors: The University of Pennsylvania has an on-campus television studio with live-shot capability for interviews with Penn experts.Jennifer Pinto-Martin, a professor in the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, is a leading researcher in the nature and detection of autism spectrum disorder.
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Interviews of Civil Rights Leaders to Be Heard for First Time at Penn's Kelly Writers House
WHO: The voices of Malcolm X, James Baldwin, Medgar and Charles Evers, Martin Luther King Jr. and more. Plus a panel of academics discussing "Who Speaks for the Negro," the 1965 book for which the interviews were conducted. WHAT: "When Civil Rights Was Only a Dream" a roundtable discussion of Robert Penn Warren's taped interviews for his book "Who Speaks for the Negro?"WHEN: Thursday, Feb. 24, at 6 p.m.WHERE: Kelly Writers House3805 Locust WalkUniversity of Pennsylvania
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Penn Astrophysicist Outlines a Multi-Pronged Approach in The Hunt for Dark Energy
WASHINGTON -- For the last few years evidence that we are living on a very "weird" universe has been growing: the expansion of the universe is accelerating, and one theory proposed to account for this acceleration is what has been termed "dark energy."
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Penn Appoints JoAnn McCarthy Assistant Provost for International Affairs
Penn Appoints JoAnn McCarthy Assistant Provost for International AffairsFeb. 17, 2005PHILADELPHIA JoAnn McCarthy has been appointed Assistant Provost for International Affairs at the University of Pennsylvania. She assumes her new position March 1.McCarthy will work closely with Penn President Amy Gutmann, the provost and deans to develop and implement the University's global strategy. She will oversee Penn's initiatives for increasing visibility in the international arena and provide leadership to move Penn's international agenda forward.
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Miniaturized Lab Permits Saliva Screening on the Go; Tests Could Detect Drug Use, Disease or Bioweapons
WASHINGTON -- A team of scientists and engineers led by Daniel Malamud at the University of Pennsylvania has developed a robust means of analyzing oral samples. They believe their work will lead to a kit, not much bigger than a credit card, which could detect exposure to a variety of substances, from narcotics to anthrax to common bacteria and viruses. Their plan would increase ease of detection and accelerate response time whether it was used in the middle of a public health incident or in a busy doctor office.
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Why Is the Helix Such a Popular Shape? Perhaps Because They Are Nature's Space Savers
PHILADELPHIA -- Something about nature loves a helix, the ubiquitous spiral shape taken on by DNA and many other molecules found in the cells of living creatures. The shape is so useful that, while researching the means of creating self-assembling artificial helices, physicists at the University of Pennsylvania believe that they have come across a plausible mathematical reason for why the helical shape is so common. Their findings appear in the Feb. 18 issue of the journal Science.