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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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Students From Area Colleges Become Military Officers at Penn Navy ROTC Ceremony Aboard the USS New Jersey
WHO:Eighteen midshipmen from the University of Pennsylvania NROTC unit, which includes students from Penn and Drexel and Temple universities, guest military speakers and hundreds of on-looking family members.WHAT:In a time-honored military ceremony, the midshipmen will get ensign and lieutenant bars and officially become officers in the Navy and Marine Corps.WHEN:May 15, 2002, at 2 p.m.WHERE:Battleship USS New Jersey, Camden WaterfrontMore than 300 family members and guests are expected to be in attendance on
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Penn Researchers Describe Newly Found Dinosaur of the Montana Coastline
PHILADELPHIA -- Through the cycads and gingkoes of the floodplains, not far from the Sundance Sea, strode the 50-foot-long Suuwassea, a plant-eating dinosaur with a whip-like tail and an anomalous second hole in its skull destined to puzzle paleontologists in 150 million years. According to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, Suuwassea emilieae (pronounced SOO-oo-WAH-see-uh eh-MEE-LEE-aye) is a smaller relative of Diplodocus and Apatosaurus and is the first named sauropod dinosaur from the Jurassic of southern Montana.
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New school journal Those who care about urban education have a new online resource, “Perspectives on Urban Education.” Created by the Graduate School of Education, the electronic journal carries feature-length articles, reports of studies in progress, reviews and commentaries on issues affecting today’s urban school districts. The journal also gives readers the chance to respond directly to authors via email.
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Penn to Present Honorary Degrees to Bono, Four Others At the University's 248th Commencement May 17
PHILADELPHIA -- Bono, lead singer and songwriter for the rock group U2 and a social-justice activist, will speak at the University of Pennsylvania's 248th Commencement ceremony Monday, May 17, at Franklin Field, 33rd and South streets. The procession of graduates begins at 9 a.m.Bono co-founded the organization Debt AIDS Trade Africa, which seeks to raise public awareness of and action against AIDS and poverty in Africa. For his tireless efforts and use of his celebrity as a force for change, Penn will award Bono an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.
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Penn Student Kelly George Receives Women in Science Award from L'Oréal USA
PHILADELPHIA -- University of Pennsylvania graduate student Kelly George is among five women to be honored for their achievements and promising scientific research as part of the L'Oreal USA for Women in Science Fellowship Programme. George will be awarded an education and research grant of $20,000 during a reception to be held at the New York Academy of Sciences.
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Penn Engineer, George Pappas, Honored with Presidential Early Career Award by President Bush
Philadelphia -- Today, University of Pennsylvania professor George Pappas was named as one of the nation's most promising young scientists and engineers by President Bush with a 2002 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
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Star search turns up fewer new ones
With few new stars being formed, will the twinkling lights above our heads soon disappear into the night sky? According to Raul Jimenez, assistant professor of physics, there is now very little gas—the main component of stars—available in the galaxies, so few new ones are forming. But since stars tend to have a lifetime of 10 to 100 billion years, and our universe is a youthful 13 billion years old, we don’t need to worry that the lights above will dim anytime soon.
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Center explores ties that bind people, animals
Like most animal lovers, when James Serpell thinks about the stray dogs of Taiwan or Philadelphia’s own canine abuse problem, he gets upset. As director of Penn’s Center for the Interaction of Animals and Society, a multi-disciplinary research center within the School of Veterinary Medicine, he gets to explore the root causes and work toward solutions. Doing research on how animals fare in their relationships with people is a big part of the center’s mission. It also looks at the other side of the equation—how people are affected by their interaction with animals.