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"Smiles, Laughter and Friends" Is the Theme for the Penn Museum's Annual Free Family Celebration
PHILADELPHIA-- The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology will hold "Smiles, Laughter and Friends," its ninth annual Peace Around the World Dec. 5 from 1 to 4:30 p.m. It's a free, multicultural, family-oriented afternoon with choir music plus international music and dancing, international cartoons, holiday card and craft making, magic, exotic face-painting, a treasure hunt, free treats for children and more. Attendees can get special reduced-rate parking in Penn Garage 7, Convention Avenue at South Street.
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Expert Comment for Pending U.S. Supreme Court Rulings
EXPERT COMMENT FOR PENDING U.S. SUPREME COURT RULINGSfrom the University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolWhether the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines are unconstitutional because they allow a judge to increase a sentence based on issues that were never presented to a juryPaul Robinson, professor of lawAreas of expertise: Criminal law, criminal code reform, criminal sentencing. He is the former commissioner (1986-88) of the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
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Penn Materials Scientist Wayne Worrell Awarded Edward Goodrich Acheson Medal
PHILADELPHIA -- University of Pennsylvania Professor Wayne Worrell has received the 2004 Edward Goodrich Acheson Award at the 206th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society. The award consists of a gold medal and $10,000. Worrell, who joined the faculty in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in Penn School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in 1965, received the award in recognition of his scientific achievements and outstanding service to the materials-science community.
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Cinema Paradiso
Foreign film fans, take note: your best chance to see some of the finest work being produced by new Italian directors is coming soon to a theater near you. The five-day film festival, “New Authors of Italian Cinema, 6th Edition,” runs from Nov. 17 through 21 at International House and gives the Penn community and general public the chance to see groundbreaking films unavailable anywhere else.
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Improve your quality of work life
Whether it’s navigating the pressures of parenthood or dealing with the finances of elder care, upcoming Quality of Work Life workshops from the Division of Human Resources can teach you the skills you need to succeed.
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Does brain damage improve artistic skills?
It’s hardly surprising that brain damage can change the way some people express themselves artistically. For people with Alzheimer’s, autism, or affected by stroke—three very different kinds of brain damage—the art may even get richer and more nuanced, or cleaner and simpler, depending on the effects of the disease, according to one Penn researcher.
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Ask Benny: Where can I find day care at Penn?
Dear Benny,I walk past College Hall just about every day—and I can’t help wondering how old that building is. So tell me, how long has College Hall been around? —Curious Bypasser Dear Campus Walker, The short answer to your question is this: College Hall has been sitting in West Philly as long as Penn has been sitting in West Philly.
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On a sacred quest
Following the success of “Historic Houses of Philadelphia” (Penn Press, 1998), Roger Moss has spent the last three years working on a second volume, “Historic Sacred Places of Philadelphia” (Penn Press, 2004). Teaming up once again with architectural photographer Tom Crane, Moss takes readers of the newly published book on a history-rich visual tour of some of the city’s finest places of worship. Though packed with scholarly insight and historic research, it’s as much a coffee table book as an academic tome. And that’s just how Moss wants it.
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Flu risk could have easily been avoided
Newspapers and television news stations have been reporting for weeks about the shortage of influenza vaccines in the U.S.—and Americans’ sometimes frantic attempts to get a flu shot. But just how big a deal is this national shortage? According to Dr. Neil Fishman, an expert in infectious diseases at Penn, it’s a very big deal indeed. And the worst part is, he says, it could have easily been avoided.