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University-Assisted Urban Revitalization Highlight of April 20 Address by Penn President Judith Rodin
WHO: University of Pennsylvania President Judith Rodin will speak to Washington policymakers at the inaugural Penn in Washington Seminar Series luncheon about the role universities can play in urban revitalization.The lunch is being hosted by NBC Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell and U.S. Rep. Harold E. Ford.
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Dr. Ruth has several songs in her heart
If you hear the word “rhythm” in the same sentence as “Dr. Ruth,” you may be more inclined to think about sex than music. But judging from her latest book, “Musically Speaking: A Life Through Song” (Penn Press, 2004), renowned psychosexual therapist Ruth K. Westheimer is just as eager to discuss songs as sexuality.
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Kid tested
Even though the Philadelphia International Children’s Festival is turning 20 this year, it’s still young at heart. Running from April 25 through May 1, this year’s festival showcases creative and magical theatrical troupes from around the world, such as Jack-Five-Oh, whose show brings Newfoundland fairy tales to life, and Canada’s BAM (left), which features creative drumming on everyday objects.
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Food scholar prepares an intellectual feast
In order for meat to pass Islamic dietary laws, it must be slaughtered by a butcher who first cries out, “I do this in the name of God! God is great!” Celebrated diarist James Boswell suggested that it was cooking, not reasoning, that distinguished humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. Betty Crocker, that icon of American cookery, was invented by the marketing department of a Minneapolis flour mill.
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BOOKQUICK/"The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter”
Known chiefly as the basis for Puccini’s great opera “La Bohème,” and resurrected more recently as the musical “Rent,” “The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter” is one of the most culturally influential French novels of the 19th century, but one that has been overshadowed by its more popular musical adaptations.
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Campus Buzz
Oh, Superman!: Christopher Reeve stands by that controversial TV ad, first aired during the 2003 Super Bowl, that shows him walking unaided at some unspecified time in the future. From his souped-up wheelchair on the Irvine Auditorium stage March 30, the actor-turned-activist said, “I don’t mind controversy when people get engaged with something. I like them to use their brains.” His defense of the ad came in response to a question after his talk, which was sponsored by Connaissance.
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Frank Furstenberg Awarded Fulbright to Uruguay
PHILADELPHIA -- Frank Furstenberg, professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, has received a Fulbright Senior Specialists grant in sociology to work in Uruguay.Furstenberg will spend two weeks lecturing at Uruguay's Instituto de Economa and planning a study, "Family Change in the Southern Cone Nations."
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Mitchell heads to Penn with Gutmann
Joann Mitchell will join the University on July 1 as vice president and chief of staff, filling the position recently vacated by Pedro Ramos. Mitchell is currently vice provost for administration at Princeton, where she manages the Priorities Committee, which consists of faculty, staff and students, and which recommends the operating budget and sets all departmental budgets. Mitchell also oversees Princeton’s policies on equal opportunity and affirmative action and has worked on the President’s Task Force on health and Well-Being.
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Pulitzer for Hahn
One of the newest members of Penn’s faculty is now its sixth Pulitzer Prize winner. Steven Hahn, the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History, received the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for history for his book “A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration” (Belknap/Harvard, 2003). The book documents the ways in which Southern blacks organized and fought for political power and rights, in the process challenging conventional views of slaves and their descendants as politically passive.
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Mail service survey
The Business Services Division is requesting feedback from faculty and staff on Penn’s mail services. Opinions and suggestions may be submitted before April 30 through the annual online survey, available at www.upenn.edu/mail/survey. Upon completion, participants may enter a drawing to win a $50 gift certificate to the Penn Bookstore.