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Ivy League First: Criminology Department at Penn

PHILADELPHIA- The University of Pennsylvania has become the first Ivy League institution to establish a criminology department.Lawrence W. Sherman, director of Penn's Jerry Lee Center of Criminology and the Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations, will chair the new department in the School of Arts and Sciences.Since the founding of Penn's Jerry Lee Center of Criminology in 2000, criminology research at the University has grown geometrically, with research projects being conducted from Australia to England.

Judith Rodin to Step Down as President of Penn in June 2004

PHILADELPHIA -- Judith Rodin, president of the University of Pennsylvania since 1994, announced today that she intends to step down from the office when she completes her 10-year term in June 2004. The announcement came following a regularly scheduled meeting of the Board of Trustees on Penns campus.

University of Pennsylvania Honored with Clery Award for Campus Safety Improvements

PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania is one of two institutions of higher education selected to receive the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Award for 2003.Established in 1994, the award is presented annually by Howard and Connie Clery in memory of their daughter Jeanne Ann to schools and individuals who have done extraordinary things to make college and university students safer.  Jeanne Ann Clery was murdered in her Lehigh University dorm room in 1986 by a fellow student who was unknown to her.

AWARDS & HONORS

The Pennsylvania Gazette took away a Gold Medal in the 2003 Council for Advancement and Support of Education’s Periodical Staff Writing contest. The winning package of five articles included a piece about 9/11 search dogs and a profile of Penn’s Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center. CASE also recognized the Research at Penn web site with a 2003 Circle of Excellence Silver Medal. Developed to share research advances from across the University, Research at Penn was selected from 154 entries.

Blast from the past at record conference

“Don’t Hang Up” by the Orlons rattled the Gothic-style rafters of the Class of 1949 Auditorium in Houston Hall, but no one got up to dance. Two of the men who made Philadelphia one of the brightest lights in the popular music galaxy, Joe Tarsia, founder of Sigma Sound Studios, and Dave Appell, who worked as a composer, engineer and producer at Cameo-Parkway Records, nodded their heads in time to the driving beat. They were at Penn as featured speakers when the national conference of the Association of Recorded Sound Collections met here May 28 to June 1.

A big check is a minor headache

Illustration by Bo Brown Dear Benny,I recently received an e-mail and saw an item in the Almanac about cashing checks drawn on Penn’s account at Mellon Bank. What are we supposed to do with checks over $5,000? I need to cash an advance in excess of $5,000 annually and haven’t found an easy way to do it. Does the University have a system in place to help individuals like me? — Need Cash in a Hurry

BOOKQUICK/New from the University Press

At the heart of the tumult that marked the 1960s was the unprecedented scale of student protest on university campuses around the world. Identifying themselves as the New Left, as distinguished from the Old Left socialists who engineered the labor protests of the 1930s, these young idealists quickly became the voice and conscience of their generation.

Fine Arts faculty lend sculptor a hand

Former Penn student and world-renowned cartoonist Charles Addams (FA’34,Hon’80) would not have missed the reference. The new entryway into the Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall—the Kelly Family Gates—bears a striking resemblance to one of Addams’ most memorable characters, Thing of the Addams Family.

Water served with every meal

STAFF Q&A/David Millar

STAFF Q&A/Penn network security guru Dave Millar fiddles around with friends and colleagues If it’s noon Thursday, it must be string-along time. That’s the time when Dave Millar and a bunch of his friends and colleagues on and off campus gather in Steinhardt Plaza behind Steinberg-Dietrich Hall for a folksy jam session.