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Twenty years after his untimely death at the hands of his father, Marvin Gaye has a secure place in the pantheon of pop music. At least four biographies, a memoir and a score of other works have explored his troubled life and groundbreaking music. Now comes Michael Eric Dyson to tell us there’s more to the story.
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Loretta Sweet Jemmott has been named Assistant Provost effective May 1. In her new position, which was announced by Provost Robert Barchi April 13, Jemmott will have primary responsibility for gender and minority issues at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Clear your mind and think of nothing. What do you see? Through the summer, the Institute of Contemporary Art shines the spotlight on a state of total, complete nothingness in its major group exhibition, “The Big Nothing.” Beginning May 1 in both gallery spaces, the ICA will feature more than 60 artists’ works from the 1970s to the present, including pieces from Yayoi Kusama that contemplate the metaphysical nothing, art by Jutta Koether that visualizes “nothing” as refusal or negation and Roe Ethridge’s delicate photographic image, “Moon” (left).
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Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorm of Thailand is greeted by two members of her 30-person delegation, (left to right) Siam University President Pormchai Mongkhovanit and National Education Council of Thailand Secretary-General Rung Kaedwang, as she arrives at the Inn at Penn for the second U.S.-Thailand Education Policy Roundtable on April 8. The summit, hosted by Penn’s Graduate School of Education and sponsored by the Starr Foundation, brought top American and Thai education officials together to discuss math and science teaching and higher education.
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How is Johnny doing in calculus? Not as well as he could be, according to Mathematics Professor Dennis DeTurck. In a Provost’s Lecture Series talk April 12, DeTurck explained why calculus matters and gave a history of efforts to improve math teaching in elementary and secondary schools.
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Dear Benny,Does Franklin Field host any events besides football games and the Penn Relays? What’s the average attendance at Franklin Field events? And why was the Army-Navy game played there? — Curious Researcher Dear Curious, Whew! Your grab bag of questions took Benny to several sources, starting with Dave Johnson, the Penn Relays director, and a good source for Franklin Field history .
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Nick Montfort wants you to know about a world of fiction and computers intricately balanced to create an experience as old as literature and as new as the modern age. In his book, “Twisty Little Passages” (MIT, 2003), Montfort, a Ph.D. student in computer and information science, explores this esoteric realm known to its aficionados as interactive fiction.
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The story of black professional baseball is one of entrepreneurs, fans, players and opportunities. As Neil Lanctot shows us in “Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution,” the history of this once-major enterprise provides a remarkable window into America’s past. Baseball functioned as a critical component in the separate economy catering to black consumers in the urban centers of the North and South.
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Steven Hahn did not set out to become a historian. “I was always sort of interested in it, and was good at it, but I wasn’t a history buff at all,” said Penn’s Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of History. “When I went to college, initially I wanted to be an astronautical engineer. I found out before I even got to college that this was probably not the best choice for me.”