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Penn Commencement Live on the Web
PHILADELPHIA Family and friends unable to attend Penn's 247th Commencement in person will be able to view the entire ceremony online thanks to a live Webcast. Coverage of the ceremony at Franklin Field from processional to recessional and all the pomp and circumstance in between will be broadcast live on the Internet beginning at 9 a.m. (EDT), Monday, May 19.
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NSA Designation Identifies Penn as a Leader in Computer Security Education
PHILADELPHIA The National Security Agency has designated the University of Pennsylvania as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education, part of a program intended to safeguard the nations information infrastructure by encouraging universities to offer coursework in computer security. Penn becomes one of about 30 such centers nationwide.
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New Website Allows Tracking of Philadelphia's Murals
PHILADELPHIA -- A new Website created by the Cartographic Modeling Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania is being launched to document the beauty and diversity of Philadelphia's 2,500 murals.In partnership with the Philadelphia Department of Recreations Mural Arts Program, the project is part of Penns Neighborhood Information System that focuses on vacant properties and neighborhood change in Philadelphia. Community development efforts to reclaim vacant land and buildings can be easily traced by studying the growth of murals.
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University of Pennsylvania Doubles Its Purchase Of Wind-Generated Power to 10 Percent of Energy Need
PHILADELPHIA Under a new 10-year agreement, the University of Pennsylvania will now purchase 10 percent of its energy needs from wind-generated power, in effect doubling its nation-leading wind-energy purchase to the output from 10 wind turbines.Penn will purchase 40 million kilowatt hours annually from Community Energy Inc. of Wayne, Pa. This agreement represents the largest retail purchase of wind-generated energy in the nation. The 10-year commitment will also lead to the construction of a new wind farm in Pennsylvania.
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During Earth Festival, Penn to Announce Agreement Doubling Wind Power Purchase
WHAT: Earth Festival 2003, sponsored by the Penn Environmental Group, with the theme "Thinking about Alternative Energy" and highlighted by the announcement of Penn's latest commitment to using renewable wind energy. The event will also feature displays on environmental issues and research, including displays of Penn's alternative-fuel vehicles, powered by natural gas and electricity. WHO: Omar Blaik, vice president of facilities and real estate services at the University of Pennsylvania Brent Alderfer, president of Community Energy Inc.
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Campus Buzz
Good morning, Baltimore: We must be doing something right with our West Philly initiatives—other cities have been picking off the people who made them happen, one by one. The latest catch: Associate Vice President Jack Shannon, who has been tapped to head a new nonprofit organization, East Baltimore Development, Inc. The group seeks to revitalize the neighborhood around Johns Hopkins Hospital. We believe that Jack will prove more than capable of bringing the vision to fruition, based on what he’s done here at Penn.
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Scholars criticize, defend war against Iraq
As hostilities continue in the Middle East, Penn scholars gathered in Houston Hall to weigh in on the motivations and consequences of the war on Iraq. “Iraq: The End of the Beginning?,” a symposium cosponsored by the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict and the School of Arts and Sciences, took place April 3 in front of a capacity crowd.
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CCP celebrates a decade of civic service
The Center for Community Partnerships (CCP) is the heart and soul of Penn’s commitment to civic engagement. It is also the arms and legs. Led by Director Ira Harkavy and an extraordinarily dedicated staff, the center has galvanized faculty, staff and students in a decade-long effort to reach out to Penn’s West Philadelphia neighbors and heal the town/gown rift that for too long divided “us” from “them.”
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“It would be a mistake to try to make pets of wild rats.”
—Karen Rosenthal, director of special species at Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine, on the dangers of welcoming these disease-carrying rodents into the home (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 26)
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A very special delivery
The Annenberg Library of Rare Books and Manuscripts on the sixth floor of Van Pelt Library could be described as the un-Rosengarten. No undergraduates cramming for finals mar its perfect serenity. A large oriental rug worn to soft shades of beige and blue and burnished wood cases displaying green and red morocco-bound volumes greet the visitor.