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Furniture Guy, to teach non-credit courses at Penn
PHILADELPHIA Ed Feldman, better known as one of the Furniture Guys on the Learning Channel, will teach two non-credit courses offered by the College of General Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.One course, 20th Century Design Walking Tour: Furniture Galleries, will explore Philadelphias decorative-art heritage. The three sessions begin at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and continue through various furniture stores, galleries and salvage emporiums in Old City and Northern Liberties where students will learn first-hand about furniture heirlooms.
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Campus Buzz
And the winners are… First, a great big Thank You to all 259 faculty, staff and students who filled out our survey as of press time, readers and non-readers alike. Your feedback will help us serve you better. But that’s not the real reason you filled out the survey, is it? So without further ado, here are the lucky prize winners: Dinner at the White Dog Café and Black Cat gift certificate: Barbara Brooks, staff assistant, Genetics
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So proudly we hail the Class of 2003
This year’s graduating class entered Penn during a time of peace. They leave it to venture out into a time of conflict, with international tensions much in the news. It is perhaps appropriate, then, that the speaker at Penn’s 247th Commencement is a man whose work helped end the violence of the fight against apartheid in South Africa, 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
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Hot time, summer on campus
While the volatile weather—balmy one day, frigid the next—may have you wondering if winter is really behind us and if summer will ever make an appearance, there’s one person on campus who never doubts its arrival. You could even say that Valerie Ross, director of Summer Sessions, is the reason summer even happens at Penn.
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Pack your bags
You’ve been saving up those days the entire year and now the season to get away from it all has finally come. The Current asked around to see what you’ve got planned for those vacation days. Some of you are making the ritual trek to Jersey’s sandy shores, while others are hopping on a plane to more distant locales like Australia and Ireland. Wherever you’re headed, make sure you leave your work at home and turn off the cell phone.
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Home and work get a helping hand
Whether you want to improve the morale at work or lead a less hectic life, you can count on help from the folks at Human Resources. Take advantage of these upcoming Learning and Education classes and Quality of Worklife workshops to improve your career and personal well-being.
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The future in concrete and glass
With the opening of Levine Hall, the School of Engineering and Applied Science took a big step into the high-tech future. The next step will begin in mid-June, when demolition begins on the Pender Laboratories connecting the Towne and Moore buildings. In its place will rise Skirkanich Hall, the new home for the Bioengineering Department.
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Ask Benny: Plant fan wants the name of the rose
Dear Benny,I’d like to know what kind of roses are planted on the trellises at University Square. They have the loveliest flowers, and they appear to be quite durable—I can’t seem to get my own roses to climb that well.— Lover of Blooms
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Appointments
Effective June 15, Les Hudson will be joining Penn as Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives. Hudson, who comes to Penn from Pharmacia Corporation, will guide the University’s technology-transfer and entrepreneurial initiatives as well as corporate relations; integrate Penn’s involvement in regional economic-development initiatives; develop a cohesive approach to commercialization; and oversee the Center for Technology Transfer and the new Office of Corporate and Industrial Relations.
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Cashmore elected to NAS
For shedding new light on plant behavior, Professor of Biology Anthony R. Cashmore has been honored with election to the National Academy of Sciences. Cashmore, director of Penn’s Plant Science Institute, studies the mechanisms by which plants respond to light. His 1990s research that identified cryptochrome, a plant photoreceptor that detects blue and ultraviolet light, has since been extended by others to animals. Cashmore came to Penn from the Rockefeller University in 1986.