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Search for Sabloff successor under way
Jeremy A. Sabloff C’64, Williams Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, has announced that he will be stepping down from the directorship on June 30, 2004. Sabloff will have completed 10 years of service as head of one of the world’s great archaeology and anthropology museums. Deputy Provost and Andrea Mitchell Professor of English Peter Conn chairs the search committee. Sabloff, who discovered archaeology as an undergraduate at Penn and has a Ph.D. from Harvard, is an internationally recognized expert on the ancient Maya.
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Veteran journalist to run Annenberg voter survey
The Annenberg Public Policy Center is poised to begin their second National Annenberg Election Survey (NAES), a rolling-cross sectional survey of the American electorate, on November 1. In the groundbreaking 2000 NAES, the most comprehensive academic survey to date on American political attitudes and behavior, researchers conducted more than 100,000 interviews, asking Americans about their political knowledge, media use and opinions about the candidates and issues.
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Body language
Let’s be frank here: We’re biased. We’ve been fans of Candace diCarlo, whose photos have graced the overwhelming majority of our front pages since the Current launched five years ago, for quite some time.
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Nominations now being accepted
Since the search committee evaluating candidates to succeed Judith Rodin as President is taking suggestions, we thought we would help them out by asking people who they thought should be Penn’s next president. We were surprised, to put it mildly, at how reluctant people were to recommend anyone. It’s not like the job is all that difficult—you just have to manage an institution with a $3.5-billion-a-year budget. Those of you who did go so far as to offer an actual candidate, though, had some serious suggestions.
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The policy wonk as editorialist
Mark Alan Hughes Gr’86 has an opinion about most things that happen in Philadelphia. As a distinguished senior fellow at Penn’s Robert A. Fox Leadership Program and professor of policy development and urban issues at the Fels Center of Government, Hughes is able to back up his opinion with scholarly expertise. As a weekly op-ed columnist at the Philadelphia Daily News, Hughes is able to take his ideas about the practical application of theories and offer concrete solutions—and criticisms—on the page.
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Staff Q&A: Susan M. Anthony
Staff Q&A/A friend lends Susan Anthony a book to read, and the next thing you know, she’s got a club going “I went on the web and found ‘Book Clubs for Dummies.’” TV host Kelly Ripa has a book club for people looking for a good beach read. “Good Morning America” features book clubs around the nation sharing their taste for the latest in the “self-help” genre. “Today” actually invites authors to recommend other authors. Even Oprah brought back her club and is recommending John Steinbeck.
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BOOKQUICK/New from the University Press
“Fire in the Plaça” is the first full-length study in English of the Patum, a Corpus Christi fire festival unique to Berga, Catalonia, Spain, celebrated annually since the 17th century. Participants in the festival are transformed through drink, sleep deprivation, crowding, constant motion, and the smoke and sparks of close-range firecrackers into passionate members of a precarious body politic.
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A do-it-yourself music scene
It can be difficult for a band to score a gig on a Saturday night, even for well-established groups. Bands with few fans, then, may totally be left out in the cold. Since the fall of 2001, some students have known where to turn. Aspiring musicians, stand-up comedians and actors have gained experience and built up a fan base through “Up On Stage,” the Penn Collective’s free Saturday night open mike. Now, the open mike’s promoters are trying to get faculty and staff in on the act.
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Bioinformatics Alliance promotes life sciences
A new alliance headed by a Penn computer scientist seeks to promote life science research in greater Philadelphia by spreading knowledge of bioinformatics. Bioinformatics is the use of computing technology to analyze the massive amounts of data generated by today’s biological experiments. The Bioinformatics Alliance, comprised of Penn and 10 other area non-profit education and research institutions, has been set up to train current and future life scientists in its techniques.
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HR programs offer help and ideas
Focus on your career and your well-being with help from the folks at Human Resources. Take advantage of these upcoming Learning and Education (L&E) programs and Quality of Worklife (QOWL) workshops. For course locations and more information on Learning and Education programs, call 215-898-3400 or visit www.hr.upenn.edu/learning. Registration required for most programs.