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“I don’t think you can really manufacture remorse. It has to come from within.”
—Robert Sadoff, professor of psychiatry, on how prisoners subjected to shaming tactics, such as wearing a badge that advertises their crime, often react by becoming more violent (The Sacramento Bee, Oct. 11)
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Patusky Joins United Therapeutics Board
PHILADELPHIA- Christopher Patusky, deputy director of the University of Pennsylvania Fels Institute of Government, has been appointed to the United Therapeutics Board of Directors. United Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on combating chronic and life-threatening cardiovascular, infectious and oncological diseases with unique therapeutic products.
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Dental Education Forum: How the Profession Can Meet the Public's Future Oral Health Needs
WHO: Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of PennsylvaniaCaswell A. Evans Jr., director of the National Oral Health Initiative of the Office of the U.S. Surgeon GeneralU.S. Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania
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Former U.S. Health Secretary to Detail Factors Impacting Access to Oral Health Care in America
WHO: Louis Sullivan, president of Morehouse School of Medicine and former secretary of health and human services, will address the 125th Anniversary Dental Leadership Forum at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. WHAT: Sullivan will discuss access to oral health care across the country, as addressed in "Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General," published in 2000. The report found profound disparities in the availability of care across the country, a decline in the dentist-to-population ratio and a shortage of dental-school faculty.
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Penn Center for Africana Studies Announces 30th Anniversary Program Series
PHILADELPHIA -- Writers, artists and scholars of African-American and African Diasporic studies will come to the University of Pennsylvania for a year-long series of programs celebrating 30 years of African-American studies at Penn. The free, public programs are sponsored by the Center for Africana Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences. The Center for Africana Studies, formerly the Afro-American Studies Program, examines the factors that created and shaped the African-American and African Diaspora experience.
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Edwin Gordon Named Director of Mid-Career Program at Penn's Graduate School of Education
PHILADELPHIA --Edwin Gordon has been named director of the Mid-Career Doctorate in Educational Leadership program in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Penn, Gordon was a senior-level administrator in independent and public schools in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and served as an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Urban and Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Arlington.
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Middle East Center and International House to Host Penn's First Middle Eastern Film Festival
PHILADELPHIA-- Movie goers will be introduced to new works from Middle Eastern film makers and films about the region when the Middle East Center at the University of Pennsylvania joins with International House to host the area's first-ever Middle Eastern film festival. Seven films by film makers from Africa, Asia, the United States and France will be screened during the free festival Oct. 23-27 at International House, 3701 Chestnut St. in Philadelphia.
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Kelly Writers House Connects with Poet Carl Rakosi
WHO: Carl Rakosi, poetTom Devaney, poetAl Filreis, professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania WHAT: Poetry reading by Carl Rakosi via audiocast on his 99th birthday WHERE: Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust WalkWorld Wide Web (e-mail whrakosi@english.upenn.edu for connection) WHEN: Oct. 30 at 7 p.m. EDT
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Database Lets Researchers Worldwide Access the Genome of the Malarial Parasite Plasmodium falciparum
PHILADELPHIA – A database cataloging the genome of Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite responsible for the vast majority of the world's malaria deaths, will be distributed to tens of thousands of scientists worldwide via a CD-ROM inserted in the Oct. 31 issue of the journal Nature.
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People's Choice: Events galore
Whether it be a speaker, a concert or an open house, there’s always something interesting happening on campus. With this in mind, we asked some Penn staff who organize events which ones they attended and which they’d recommend. Here’s what they said.