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Penn Hosts Feast of Fools Festival April 1
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Penn Chemist Virgil Percec Receives American Chemical Society Award in Polymer Chemistry
PHILADELPHIA -- Virgil Percec, a professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, will receive the American Chemical Society Award in Polymer Chemistry at the society 277th national meeting in Anaheim, Calif. A prolific scientific author, Percec is recognized for the breadth of his creative work, from the discovery of cyclic and dendritic liquid crystals to the synthesis of self-assembling chemicals that can spontaneously form organized structures.
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University of Pennsylvania Museum Awarded Three-Year, $301,000 Grant from the National Science Foundation for Native American Research Opportunities for Undergraduates
PHILADELPHIA, PA 2004 - The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has been awarded a three year, $301,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to support an innovative research experience for undergraduates: "Native Voices, Past and Present, Studies of Native American Collections at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology."
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Joann Mitchell Named Vice President and Chief of Staff at University of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA Joann Mitchell has been named vice president and chief of staff at the University of Pennsylvania, effective July 1. Her appointment was announced today by Amy Gutmann, who becomes president of Penn July 1.Mitchell is currently vice provost for administration at Princeton University. Prior to going to Princeton in 1993, she was director of affirmative action at Penn for seven years.
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Penn's Jerry Lee Center of Criminology Awarded $1.6 Million to Test U.K.'s "Justice Without Court"
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania's Jerry Lee Center of Criminology has been chosen to lead the United Kingdom's test of a program known as Restorative Justice as a Diversion from Prosecution.The project will be the most substantial test ever conducted of diverting serious offenders from prosecution to "justice without court," said Lawrence W. Sherman, director of the center and a Penn professor of human relations.
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Penn History Professor Steven Hahn Wins Bancroft Prize
PHILADELPHIA -- Steven Hahn, professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, has won the Bancroft Prize for 2004 for his book "A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South From Slavery to the Great Migration." One of the most coveted honors in the field of history, the Bancroft Prize is awarded annually by the Trustees of Columbia University to authors of exceptional books in the fields of American history, biography and diplomacy. The 2004 awards recognize books published in 2003.
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Penn's Graduate Program in Folklore Marks 40th Anniversary
WHO: University of Pennsylvania Center for Folklore and Ethnography, Graduate students in folklore and folklifeWHAT: "Gathering/Place: Folklore, Aesthetic Ecologies and the Public Domain" Conference and ReunionWHEN: Friday, April 2, noon-8 p.m., Saturday, April 3, 9 a.m.-9p.mWHERE: Logan Hall on the University of Pennsylvania campus
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Kids Are the Judges, Not Competitors, in March 26
WHAT: "Penn Kids Judge! Fair," where kids will actually judge the projects of Penn undergraduate, post-baccalaureate and graduate science students. WHO: Some 140 schoolchildren from the Penn Alexander and Lea schools in West Philadelphia WHERE: Penn School of MedicineWHEN: 9 a.m., Friday, March 26; the best interaction between the school students and the college students will most likely be after 10 a.m.
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People's Choice: Speak to us
While this year’s Commencement speaker is something of a departure—Bono is the first rock star to deliver a Commencement address at Penn—his record of social activism places him solidly in the tradition of honoring those who have made significant contributions to society. That also holds true for many of the people our respondents suggested when we asked them who they would pick for Commencement speaker. While politicians dominate the list, other choices reflect a desire to hear about current news events or the issues facing Penn. Maybe one of these will speak in 2005.
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Faculty Feature: Good chemistry between Dai and his singers
The ethnic Chinese population of Greater Philadelphia is less than 50,000. Yet this small population, which includes immigrants and their descendants from the mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong, supports five community choirs. One of these groups, Chinese Musical Voices, is conducted by Hirschmann-Makieni Professor of Chemistry Hai-Lung Dai. Why the great interest in music among Chinese Philadelphians? “The people who join like to have some contact with Chinese culture, and through music, they have that contact with their cultural heritage,” said Dai.