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10 things you didn’t know about Judith Rodin
Included in this special report: Judith Rodin: Her decade at Penn Excerpts from a decade of discourse on the issues that mattered.
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Treasures of Ur: tip of the iceberg?
Dear Benny,I read with interest the story about the Iraqi museum curators who came to Penn to look at the “Royal Tombs of Ur” exhibit. What portion of the Museum’s collection of objects from Ur is on display? How many of the finds from the 1922-1934 excavations are in the Museum’s collection? Are any of these on permanent display, or will they be? — Fascinated by Finds
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A sharper image Attendees at an April 29 symposium sponsored by the Franklin Institute and Penn Health System’s Department of Radiology got a crash course in the history of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and how it’s used at Penn. The real draw, though, was MRI’s inventor, Raymond Damadian, who was recently—some say scandalously—passed over for the Nobel Prize.
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Rodin wins double honors for her service to the community
Penn President Judith Rodin CW’66 became the first woman to receive the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce’s William Penn Award. The award recognizes business leaders whose professional and community contributions have enriched the region. Rodin, who received the award in late April, was credited with revitalizing University City while raising Penn’s standards and following through on her commitment to improve the region’s public schools.
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Best of seven: A round of applause, please, for Shani Boston C’07, the second member of the Penn women’s track team ever to win a Penn Relays event. Boston took the heptathlon medal at the 110th Relays April 21 with a total score of 5,049 points, 40 more than the second-place finisher, teammate Kai Ivory C’04. Boston joins Frances Childs C’88, who also won the heptathlon in 1988, in this most exclusive sorority.
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Musing about mortality
The convergence of tools, money and technology make this the most important period of scientific discovery since the Renaissance, said writer and journalist Stephen S. Hall in a talk at The Wistar Institute on May 4.
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A Rodin Decade Timeline: Highlights from Judith Rodin's 10-year tenure as Penn's President
1994 Judith Rodin assumes office as first woman to head an Ivy League university Walter Annenberg gives $120 million to Penn, the largest single gift ever from an individual 1995 Rodin announces Agenda for Excellence, a comprehensive five-year strategic plan to strengthen the University on all fronts
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SPECIAL REPORT/Judith Rodin: A decade of leadership
When Judith Rodin steps down next month after 10 years as Penn’s president, she will leave behind an enduring legacy of growth and improvement. The timeline highlights landmarks from Dr. Rodin’s presidency, but this is just a sampling. Some of her achievements are strikingly tangible; everywhere on campus we see bricks-and-mortar testaments to her leadership and vision.
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Do stiffer rules deter criminals?
Rewriting criminal laws as a means of deterring criminals may be a waste of time. That’s according to Colin S. Diver Distinguished Professor of Law Paul Robinson, who shares his findings in the forthcoming Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. “ The assumption,” said Robinson, who co-authored “Does Criminal Law Deter?” with Princeton psychology professor John Darley, “is that if they pass or change a law it will have some influence in the real world.” But for that to happen, he says, three conditions have to be met.
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Appointments
Doug Lynch has been named the new vice dean for graduate admissions and executive education in the Graduate School of Education. In this role, Lynch—who came to Penn April 1—oversees admissions policies for GSE’s traditional and non-traditional programs. Lynch will also assist faculty in the development of executive model and continuing education programs.