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MES program designed to turn out ‘pioneering, adventurous students’
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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Morris horticulturalist works to save Wissahickon, wetland
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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Penn prof joins elite group
Charles O’Brien gets frequent invitations to speak in Europe. The Penn psychiatry professor is fluent in French, which helps. And his area of expertise—the study and treatment of addictions—finds interested audiences wherever he travels.
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Movable Feast: Hearty dishes to keep warm
Now that winter has settled in to stay, midday thoughts are likely to turn to the predictable, sustaining pleasures of comfort food. But that doesn’t have to mean pizza or a cheesesteak every time the mercury plummets. On and around campus we’ve found a host of hearty dishes to keep the mid-winter chills at bay.
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Staff Q&A: Bart Miltenberger
Bart Miltenberger says working at Penn delivers some unexpected perks to aspiring musicians. Including access to some pretty good rehearsal space. There are the obvious spots, like historic Irvine Auditorium, and there are the not-so-obvious—like the echoing stairways at the Wharton School.
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“I wouldn’t dare. …because the bronze they were stored in is loaded with lead—at levels as high as 20 percent—and I’m not interested in a touch of lead poisoning.”
—Patrick McGovern, adjunct associate professor of anthropology, on not tasting his discovery of a 9,000-year-old Chinese fermented drink (San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 7).
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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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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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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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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