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New Penn/Gallup Poll Measures "Spiritual State of the Union"
March 4, 2003PHILADELPHIA – Faith and spirituality guide the lives of three out of four American adults, according to a new report byNew Penn/Gallup Poll Measures "Spiritual State of the Union" researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, the Gallup Organization and the George H. Gallup International Institute.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Terrorism and the Constitution to Be Discussed at Penn Law School Symposium
WHO: Seth Kreimer, David Rudovsky and Kim Lane Scheppele,University of Pennsylvania Law School Nancy Chang, Center for Constitutional RightsDavid Cole, Georgetown Law School Marwan Kreidie, Muslim community leader in PhiladelphiaJules Lobel, University of Pittsburgh Law School Robin Wagner-Pacifici, Swarthmore CollegeJudy Rabinovitz, ACLU-San Francisco Immigrants' RightsMichael Wishnie, New York University Law School WHAT: Symposium, "Terrorism and The Constitution: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in a Global Society"
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Performer Laurie Anderson to Visit Penn's Kelly Writers House
WHO: Laurie Anderson, performer and poetWHAT: Participating in the Kelly Writers House Fellows programWHEN: March 25 at 6:30 p.m. and March 25 at 10 a.m.WHERE: Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, University of Pennsylvania
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Paul Hendrickson to Discuss "Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and its Legacy" at Penn Humanities Forum
WHO: Paul Hendrickson, professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and author of "Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and its Legacy"WHAT: Discussion and signing of his latest book, "Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and its Legacy"WHEN: March 25 at 6 p.m.WHERE: 3619 Locust Walk, University of Pennsylvania
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National Science Foundation Gives $1.5 Million to Boost Math and Science in K-12 Classrooms
PHILADELPHIA -- Schools in West Philadelphia will be supported by a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to boost their mathematics and science curricula in grades K-12. An original grant to the University of Pennsylvania's Mathematics Department from NSF four years ago founded Access Science, an academically based community service project supported by Penn's Center for Community Partnerships. The new funding, which is approximately $500,000 for three years, will allow Access Science to continue through 2006.
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Penn-Led Team Wins WTC Design Competition
PHILADELPHIA - A design by the Daniel Libeskind team, which includes two professors at the University of Pennsylvania, has won the international design competition to rebuild the World Trade Center site in Manhattan. Libeskind, a Penn professor of architecture, and Gary Hack, a professor of city planning and the dean of Penn's Graduate School of Fine Arts, are the principal designers for the scheme. Their design was chosen from among an original 435 plans submitted.
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Libeskind in running to rebuild WTC
A team headed by a prominent member of Penn’s architecture faculty has been chosen as one of two finalists for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center in New York. Studio Daniel Libeskind, headed by the Paul Philippe Cret Professor of Architecture, submitted a proposal that includes a 1,575-foot tower, which would be the world’s tallest structure if built, two public parks and a museum in addition to office and retail space. Gary Hack, dean of the Graduate School of Fine Arts, served as the urban planner on the Libeskind team.
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Staff Q&A/Margaret Kruesi
Margaret Kruesi’s (Gr’95) affinity for the uncommon goes beyond her day job as a manuscripts librarian at Penn’s Annenberg Rare Books and Manuscript Library. Earlier this year, she spent several days waiting on a hard bench at a park station in Costa Rica just for a glimpse of one of the world’s most ancient animals, the leatherback sea turtle. Kruesi and her group—which included Professor of Anatomy and Geology Peter Dodson—are worried about the ever-dwindling population of these marine reptiles. Here she shares with the Current her passion for conservation.
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Campus Buzz
Clearing out the cob-Webs: A couple of popular Penn Web sites have undergone early spring cleaning with updated interfaces. The Penn Library’s Web site (www.library.upenn.edu) got a facelift Feb. 3. The home page design incorporates some of the new Penn Web design elements while keeping the overall feel of the old site. You can also now search the library’s electronic collections as well as the Franklin online catalog from the home page.
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Hey, guys, let’s write a book!
Lucy’s Legumes. Neanderthal Nibblers. Upper Paleolithic Cake. These are just some of the many recipes you’ll find in Professor of Anthropology Harold Dibble’s new chef-d’oeuvre, the “Human Evolution Cookbook” (University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications, 2002). With the help of illustrator Brad M. Evans and chef Dan Williamson, both of whom had worked with Dibble at archaeological dig sites in France for over five years, Dibble traces the prehistory of mankind from the earliest humans to the modern Homo sapiens, all the while making corny jokes and poking fun at archaeology.