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Penn’s Libeskind and Hack Finalists for World Trade Center Project
PHILADELPHIA -- Daniel Libeskind, professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, has been chosen as a finalist for the design of the World Trade Center Project. Also serving on the Libeskind team, as the urban planner, is Gary Hack, dean of Penn's Graduate School of Fine Arts. PHILADELPHIA -- Daniel Libeskind, professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, has been chosen as a finalist for the design of the World Trade Center Project. Also serving on the Libeskind team, as the urban planner, is Gary Hack, dean of Penn's Graduate School of Fine Arts.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to Speak at University of Pennsylvania Law School
Note to editors: Please call Jeanne Leong if you're interested in covering Justice Scalia's talk. WHO: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin ScaliaWHEN: Feb. 13, 4:30 p.m.WHERE: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and AnthropologyHarrison Auditorium33th and Spruce streetsU.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will speak about constitutional interpretation.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: University of Pennsylvania Law School Students' Auction Helps Fund Public Interest Law Projects
WHO: University of Pennsylvania Law School students' Equal Justice Foundation
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Chinua Achebe to Speak at Penn
WHO: Chinua Achebe, author of "Things Fall Apart" WHAT: Speaking on the "Celebration of Black Literature" WHERE: Irvine Auditorium, University of Pennsylvania WHEN: Feb. 14 at 4 p.m. On Feb. 14, the University of Pennsylvania's Office of the President, Office of the Provost, Center for Africana Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences and Art Sanctuary will present acclaimed Nigerian author Chinua Achebe at the Irvine Auditorium at 4 p.m.
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Korean National University of the Arts Exhibition at Penn's Addams Gallery
WHO: Korean National University of the Arts fine arts faculty WHAT: Exhibition of recent work produced by 11 Korean artists in an exchange between KNUA and the University of Pennsylvania WHEN: Feb. 10-March 7, 2003 WHERE: Charles Addams Gallery, 200 S. 36th St. EVENT: Reception, Feb. 11, 2003, 5-7 p.m. The University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Fine Arts will host the third exchange exhibition with the Korean National University of the Arts. The fine arts faculty from KNUA will be exhibiting their artwork.
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Gelles to Participate in PBS Discussion on Child Welfare
PHILADELPHIA -- Richard James Gelles, interim dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Pennsylvania, will participate in "Failure to Protect: A National Dialogue," a PBS special airing at 10 p.m. (EST), Thursday, Feb. 6.
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A professional approach to public health
The University Trustees have approved the creation of a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree that will be Penn’s first university-wide professional degree program. The new degree is the culmination of a three-year process that required the collaborative effort of eight schools: the School of Medicine, which administers the program and offers the degree, and the schools of Arts and Sciences, Dental Medicine, Education, Nursing, Social Work, Veterinary Medicine and Wharton.
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Staff Q&A: Pamela Caudill
Pamela Caudill spreads a black fleece blanket on her desk. On one corner is an embroidered name flanked by pink roses on either side. Handcrafted by Caudill herself, the throw is intended as a present for one of her staffers.
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Bernstein, Sontag, Anderson to visit
Kelly Writers House has announced that screenwriter Walter Bernstein, performance artist Laurie Anderson and critic-turned-novelist Susan Sontag will each spend several days on campus this spring as Writers House Fellows. Walter Bernstein, once a regular contributor to The New Yorker, wrote the scripts for “Fail Safe” and “The Magnificent Seven” among others, but is best known as the blacklisted screenwriter during the McCarthy era who turned his story into an Academy Award-nominated movie, “The Front,” starring Woody Allen. He will be at Penn Feb. 17-18.
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Penn-in-Harrisburg I: There’s another bigwig in the Rendell administration with a Penn connection: Secretary of Conservation and Natural Resources Mike DiBerardinis. The longtime community activist had served as recreation commissioner in the administration of Mayor Rendell. This fall, he was named executive director of the Campaign for Working Families, a project housed in Penn’s Center for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society designed to help low-income families take advantage of state and federal programs that assist the working poor.