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Drive for the score

“Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War”

The Civil War is one of the most documented, romanticized, and reenacted events in American history. In “Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War,” Lisa A. Long charts how its extreme carnage dictated the Civil War’s development into a lasting trope that expresses not only altered social, economic, and national relationships but also an emergent self-consciousness.

Fulbrights for four faculty, four visitors from abroad

Four Penn professors have been awarded 2003-2004 Fulbright Scholar grants to lecture or conduct research abroad. There are also four international scholars who have visited or are visiting the University as Fulbright grant recipients this cycle. Approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals were awarded Fulbright grants this year, joining about 86,000 U.S. and foreign scholars who have participated in the program since its inception in 1946.   2003-2004 Faculty Grantees

Princetonian picked to run Penn

Distinguished scholar-educator Amy Gutmann has been nominated to serve as the eighth President of the University of Pennsylvania. Gutman, who is currently Provost and Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics at Princeton University, will assume office July 1, subject to approval by Penn’s Board of Trustees. That approval is expected at the Trustees’ Feb. 20 meeting.

“Service, social justice, equality has always been part of my upbringing.”

If planning the annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Symposium were left up to one person, it would be a full-time job all year. As it is, Machamma Quinichett spends a good chunk of her time each fall overseeing the planning effort for the two-week series of events. But the only paid member of the symposium’s planning committee—it’s part of her duties as associate director of the African-American Resource Center, the symposium’s sponsor—has plenty of dedicated volunteers from the entire Penn community to help her with the job each year.

Their primary concern

The folks in Iowa and New Hampshire have had their say on who the Democrats should choose as their presidential candidate. Unfortunately, we Pennsylvanians don’t get our say until late in the spring, by which time the nomination is usually in the bag. So we thought we’d offer you a chance to cast your straw vote now, while the prize is still up for grabs. The responses we got appear to confirm Marie Gottschalk’s observation (see “Election,” page 5) that for Democrats, ousting President Bush is priority number one.

2004: Déjà vu all over again, with a twist

The sight of a horde of Democrats pounding one another as they tromp through Iowa farms and New Hampshire hamlets has become a familiar election-year ritual. Associate Professor of Political Science Marie Gottschalk says that there’s a special twist to the 2004 version, though.

Nancy Whitfield and Ann Anderson

Innovators welcome at Weiss Tech House

A student with a novel idea walks into a state-of-the-art facility to use the computer between classes. While there, the student bumps into a classmate with a knack for marketing. They start talking about ideas, and decide to partner on a project. They get funding and a place to work, and meet with a Penn Law student who specializes in intellectual and property law for advice on how to bring their project to fruition.

Dyson, Singley trade riffs

Two dynamic speakers from two generations with two very different life experiences took the podium in Huntsman Hall Auditorium on January 13 to speak about race in America. The standing-room-only crowd heard Penn’s Michael Eric Dyson, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, and former Temple Law School Dean Carl Singley in a program sponsored by Philadelphia magazine and the Wharton School. Kenneth Shropshire, David W. Hauck Professor of Legal Studies at Wharton, hosted the forum.