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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.
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Penn’s Landing a key opportunity?
When Mayor John Street announced last month that development plans for Philadelphia’s Penn’s Landing had once again been put on hold, Harris Steinberg, unlike many other Philadelphians, wasn’t disappointed. In fact, he was optimistic.
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Penn, Harvard on collision course
The Penn football team hasn’t always won pretty this year, but they’ve won nonetheless. And, as a result, the Quakers’ dominance over the Ivy League continues. With a 17-7 win over Yale on Oct. 23, Penn extended its Ivy League winning streak to 18 games, and upped its season record to 5-1. The 18-game win streak breaks the previous Ivy League record of 17 straight wins—also set by Penn, from 1992-1995.
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Cracking the code of an ancient culture
After Simon Martin left a successful design career to spend his days deciphering Mayan hieroglyphics, some of his colleagues thought he was “bonkers.” But for the British-born Martin, now a research specialist in Mayan epigraphy at Penn Museum and an internationally renowned Mayan hieroglyphics expert, the career move made perfect sense—and it was a long time coming.
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Bookquick/“The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel”
Set in Alabama and Washington, D.C., in the early 20th century, W. E. B. Du Bois’s first novel weaves the themes of racial equality and understanding through a stark narrative of prejudice and bias.
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“The corporation is a difficult place for black people to navigate. I saw a lot of 'floating'... where people make all these work friends, but never took them home.”
— Elijah Anderson, sociology professor, on the difficulty of racial assimilation in the workplace (St. Petersburg Times, Oct. 22).