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Battling society's sleep gap
Like eating five servings of vegetables a day, getting enough sleep is one of those lofty goals many of us aspire to but few reach. “The reality is we have too much to do,” says Mark Rosekind. “We’re always shedding tasks, and one of the things we get rid of is sleep.” As part of the Penn Humanities Forum on Sleep and Dreams, Rosekind will visit campus Nov. 3 to tell us why we need to make sleep more of a priority and what to do when we inevitably fail to do that.
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Finding slaves’ place in early American politics
The title of Steven Hahn’s recent Provost’s Lecture—“Can Slaves Practice Politics?”—sounds like a bit of a riddle. For Hahn, though, Penn’s Roy F. and Jeanette P. Nichols Professor of History, it’s been the central question of his career. “It’s a deceptively simple question,” he told the crowd assembled in the Amado Recital Hall at Irvine Auditorium Oct. 7. “But it was a question for which I didn’t have adequate answers.”
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Right and wrong in the 21st century
When Anita Allen was young, she attended Sunday School every week, Vacation Bible School in the summer and sang in her church choir. She began reading philosophy as a teenager, studied the subject in college and graduate school and began her career teaching ethics at Carnegie Mellon University. But Allen, the Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law at Penn, says that even with a strong background in ethics and an intense curiosity about issues of right and wrong, she’s still made mistakes.
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British invasion
Jamie Cullum has been playing music since he was 8 years old. Apparently, all that practice was worth it. Cullum’s most recent release, Twentysomething, has earned rave reviews from critics and even gotten the young Brit some airplay—no small feat for a jazz artist. Cullum, who will play World Café Live on Oct. 23, counts Oscar Peterson and Dave Brubeck among his influences, but his recent work more closely mirrors the borderline pop-rock-jazz of Norah Jones. Not that this is a bad thing.
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Penn's Center for Community Partnerships Wins National Partnerships for Health Award
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania Center for Community Partnerships has received an honorable mention at the 2004 third annual Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Awards. The awards highlight the power and potential of partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions as a strategy for improving health.The Center was recognized for helping create university-assisted community schools that function as centers of education, services, engagement and activity for students, their parents and other West Philadelphia community members.
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Ask Benny: Where can I find day care at Penn?
Dear Benny,I’m looking for a day care center for my daughter. Does Penn have any child-care programsóand if so what kind of discount is there for Penn employees? —Need A Sitter Dear Working Parent,First, the good news: Yes, the Penn Children’s Center—the University’s day care center—does offer discounts for faculty, staff and students. Now, the bad: The center is so popular, there are currently lengthy waiting lists to get in.
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Time to take debate to a new level?
Stephen Steinberg says civility is overrated. Especially in politics. So as he watches John Kerry and George W. Bush banter during presidential debates, he can't help but wish the candidates would stop being so nice.
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Vaccine shortage puts Penn flu shot program in doubt
As you’ve probably heard by now, the flu vaccine is in short supply. Because of the unexpected shortfall, Penn may or may not run its flu shot program this year. As more information becomes available, Penn’s Human Resources department will keep our community updated.
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Voting rights for all?
During the manual recount and examination of Florida ballots from the 2000 Presidential election, late-night comedians and editorial cartoonists had a field day with jokes about aging Florida voters. One cartoon from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune went as far as to call some voters “confused, simple-instructions-challenged Florida retirees.”
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Faculty Q&A: Peggy Reeves Sanday
FACULTY Q&A/A renowned anthropologist searches for stories and meaning in the Australian desert. When Peggy Reeves Sanday began researching the sacred stories about Australia’s Wolfe Creek Crater—a crater discovered by her father in 1947—she found the Aborigines who live near the crater decidedly tight-lipped. To them, everything about the 2,850-foot-wide crater is sacred and secret. So Sanday, Penn’s R. Jean Brownlee Term Professor of Anthropology, had to find a way to both tell their story and respect their culture.