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Alum, professor helping turn former railway into urban promenade
Included in this special report: Penn's own environmental force of nature talks about preparing the next generation to save the planet Cultivating a "green" culture
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Eschenbach: Embrace music, life
Less than five minutes into Christoph Eschenbach’s Dec. 6 talk at the Annenberg Center there was barely a dry eye in the house. That’s because Eschenbach, the Philadelphia Orchestra’s maestro, was telling a wrenching story about how the power of music saved a young life—his own.
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Expert Comment on Supreme Court Rulings in U.S v. Booker and U.S. v. Fanfan
Expert Comment on Supreme Court Rulings in U.S. v. Booker and U.S. v. Fanfanfrom the University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolJan. 12, 2005Paul Robinson, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, is the former chairman (1986-88) of the U.S. Sentencing Commission and teaches, researches and writes about criminal code reform and criminal sentencing.His books include "Would You Convict? Seventeen Cases that Challenged the Law," "Structure and Function in Criminal Law," "Criminal Law Case Studies" and "Teacher's Manual for Criminal Law Case Studies."
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service Events at Penn
Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service Events at the University of PennsylvaniaWHO:Amy Gutmann, Penn presidentPenn students, staff, faculty and community membersWHAT:Day-long events in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.WHEN:Jan. 17, 2005WHERE:University of Pennsylvania campus9 a.m.Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service BreakfastPenn President Amy Gutmann and Penn Law School Professor Anita Allen-Castellito Location:Houston Hall, 34th and Spruce streets, Hall of Flags10.a.m.-2 p.m.
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Angela Davis, Mary Frances Berry to Speak at Penn's Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in Social Justice
Angela Davis, Mary Frances Berry to Speak at University of Pennsylvania Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in Social JusticeWHO:Angela Davis, activist and University of California at Santa Cruzprofessor Mary Frances Berry, Penn professor of history and former chairof the U.S. Civil Rights CommissionWHAT:Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in Social Justice:A conversation about sexuality and social justiceWHEN:Jan. 21, 2005, 5:30 p.m.WHERE:University of PennsylvaniaIrvine Auditorium34th and Spruce streets
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Penn Museum Begins Ground-breaking Project to Create Underground Image of Pre-Inca City
Philadelphia -- University of Pennsylvania Museum archaeologists working at the renowned ancient site of Tiwanaku in Bolivia site sometimes called the "American Stonehenge" have joined forces with a team of engineers, mathematicians, computer scientists and anthropologists from the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Computer and Information Science, School of Engineering, the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, University of Arkansas, and the Department of Anthropology, University of Denver, to begin a large-scale, subsurface surveying project using equipment and
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PennSound: All the Free Poetry You Care to Download
PHILADELPHIA-- The recording industry may not want anyone downloading music without paying for it, but a new project at the University of Pennsylvania encourages downloading right to MP3 players and hard drives all the poetry a listener might want. And it's all free for the asking.
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Expert Comment on the Dover, Pa School Board Plan to Include Intelligent Design in Its Curriculum
Expert Comment on the Dover, Pa., School Board Plan to Include Intelligent Design in Its Curriculumfrom the University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolJan. 4, 2005Theodore Ruger, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, teaches, researches and writes about constitutional law.
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The Penn Science Café Lecture Series Presents: Gene Warfare
The Penn Science Cafe Lecture Series Presents:"Gene Warfare: Genomics in the Fight Against Emerging Disease" WHAT: The Penn Science Cafe, a new lecture series, open to the public and free, that takes science out of the laboratory and treats it to a night on the town. WHO: David Roos, professor of biology and director of Penn Genomics Institute, hosts an evening of science and conversation.WHERE: The MarBar 40th and Walnut streets, Philadelphia
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Penn Business Services Names Ralph Maier Director of Purchasing Services
PHILADELPHIA -- Penn Business Services Division today announced that Ralph Maier has been promoted to director of Purchasing Services. Maier, who served as the department assistant director since 1990, will now lead all internal and external business processes to facilitate Penn almost $700 million in annual purchases.