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Penn Graduate School of Education Professor Earns National Head Start Award
PHILADELPHIA -- John W. Fantuzzo, a University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education professor, has received the Head Start Research Mentor Award from the federal Administration for Children and Families.Fantuzzo is the third recipient of the award, which previously has gone to Ed Zigler and Julius Richmond, the two people most responsible for the creation of the program.In addition to Fantuzzo's own groundbreaking research of the Head Start program, he has shepherded Penn graduate students interested in Head Start research.
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Penn Professor Appointed to Commission of Fine Arts
Penn Professor Appointed to Commission of Fine ArtsJune 25, 2004
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Food for Thought: "Café Nothing" at Penn's Arthur Ross Gallery
PHILADELPHIA -- In the tradition of the cafe as a place where ideas are raised and discussed, the Arthur Ross Gallery presents "Cafe Nothing," an open forum for visitors to interact with and respond to intangibles and nonexistent objects. The Arthur Ross Gallery is at 220 S. 34th St. on the Penn campus. Summertime hours of operation are noon-5 p.m., Monday-Friday. The exhibition is free and open to the public and will be on view July 9-Aug. 9.
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Penn Names New Chief Investment Officer
PHILADELPHIA Kristin A. Gilbertson has been named chief investment officer for the University of Pennsylvania, according to Craig Carnaroli, senior vice president for finance at Penn. Gilbertson will begin her new duties on August 15.Gilbertson was previously Managing Director, Public Equities at Stanford Management Company in Menlo Park, California.
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Aggressive Copyright Laws Hampering Academic Scholarship; Issue to Be Examined at Penn Conference
PHILADELPHIA- Joseph Turow and other academic researchers wonder if Walt Disney ever intended that the world of academia should be hamstrung by his company's desire to guard Mickey Mouse. "That is just what's happening," said Turow, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. "Aggressive copyright laws, often tied to companies desire to protect intellectual property, are making the future of innovative scholarship precarious."
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CAMPUS BUZZ
Vanna Play?: Ben Franklin—Ben on the Bench, that is —gets to hang with plenty of famous people. Over the years, he’s schmoozed with visiting dignitaries from Desmond Tutu to Bill Cosby. And just a few weeks ago, Dr. Bono stopped by to swap notes. On a recent sunny morning, Ben enjoyed some female company, in the shapely form of Vanna White. Not that the two got much privacy, what with the film crew, the cue-card holder, the sound man and the hangers-on.
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A role model returns
Growing up in North Philly, Salome Thomas-EL dreamed of slam-dunking his way to fame and fortune as a basketball star. That never happened, but Thomas-EL, a gifted child, aced his way through school, graduated from college and quickly landed a high-profile Manhattan media career.
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Ask Benny: How to donate your bike to charity
Dear Benny,What is the policy regarding removal of abandoned bikes from Penn-owned bicycle racks? Who’s responsible for removing them, and how often is this done? — Wondering About Wheels
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In good company Among the many honors bestowed upon Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Marie Curie was membership in the American Philosophical Society. Now a Penn professor and the chairman of a Penn Museum board have been added to those exalted ranks: Bruce Kuklick, the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History and A. Bruce Mainwaring, chairman emeritus of the Museum’s Board of Overseers from 1991 to 1995.
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Whether he tackled controversial subjects like sex and violence (“A Clockwork Orange,” 1971), injected stunning visual effects and innovative music into the sci-fi genre (“2001: A Space Odyssey,” 1968, left) or toyed with the film noir narrative structure (“The Killing,” 1956), director Stanley Kubrick’s style was always recognizable. It’s an amazing feat, considering that the notoriously detail-obsessed—and later reclusive—director had only 14 fiction films to his credit from 1953 until his death in 1999.