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A Nobel for Penn physicist
A 2002 Nobel Prize in physics for work that revolutionized our understanding of how the sun generates energy will be awarded to Raymond Davis Jr., 87. Davis, research professor of physics at Penn and research collaborator at Brookhaven National Laboratory, was the first to detect neutrinos, ghostlike particles produced in solar nuclear reactions. His work, which found only one-third the number of predicted neutrinos, sent astrophysicists into a mad search for the missing particles.
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Telephones: Speak and you shall find
Cell phones. Pagers. Fax machines. There is no shortage of numbers to remember these days. You will have more room in your memory box now that Information Systems and Computing Networking & Telecommunications has launched its new automatic speech recognition directory. The software, which is linked to Penn’s main phone number (215-898-5000), acts like a voice-activated phonebook. To test the software now, just dial 215-746-4242, speak the complete name of the person or department you wish to reach and the system will route your call to the appropriate number.
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Staff Q&A: Karlene Burrell-McCrae
An island girl moves to the big city at age 10 and then discovers she’s a despised minority at age 18 when she goes off to college in small-town America. Karlene Burrell-McCrae (GEd’96, SW’00) has experienced anger and success, something worth sharing with black students who come to Penn and feel lost or in need of help. As director of Makuu—formerly called Umoja—the black student cultural center, Burrell- McCrae is finding a way to bring black students together and to smooth their way to the services and events of the University.
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At home or work, HR is there
The folks at Human Resources are there when you need them, whether at work or at home. Take advantage of these classes for your professional career. For course locations and more information, call 215-898-3400 or visit www.hr.upenn.edu/learning. Registration required. Howard Schultz on Leadership
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Mural guru, students paint the town
In a small storefront church at 34th Street and Haverford Avenue, the Rev. Cornell A. Smith Sr. and some of his neighbors waited patiently for a group of Penn students. Their business was planning a new mural at 35th and Wallace with the students.
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Top good guy Penn has grabbed the top position in U.S. News & World Report’s new ranking of programs that use community service as an instructional strategy. The poll coincides with the 10th anniversary of Penn’s Center for Community Partnerships, which has worked with schools from across the University to promote community service as a way to better integrate Penn and West Philadelphia. Because of this collaboration, students can now choose from more than 120 classes defined as academically-based community service courses.
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Woodward cannot tell a lie
Today’s politicians still have not learned the lesson of Watergate, the scandal that brought down the Nixon White House. That was the message that Bob Woodward brought to about 900 people in Irvine Auditorium as part of the University Honor Council’s Third Annual Integrity Week earlier this month. Woodward, who as a young man broke the story of the Watergate scandal with fellow Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein, said neither Sen. Bob Toricelli nor former President Bill Clinton understood the lesson: “When you make a mistake, don’t try to excuse it.”
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Sensitive dentists for sensitive smiles
For many elderly African-Americans, it is not all smiles when it comes to making a trip to the dentist. According to a new study by Ann Slaughter, assistant professor in the School of Dental Medicine, dentists’ chair-side manner is one reason why elderly African-Americans are staying away from the dentist in greater numbers compared to the general population. Misperception about the state of their oral health is another.
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Ask Benny: The Ivy League, from fiction to the facts
Dear Benny,How did the Ivy League get its name? —I Bleed Red and Blue Dear Loyal Quaker, There are a number of apocryphal tales about the origins of the term “Ivy League,” including a widely-circulated one that attributes it to an 1890s alliance among Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Penn known as the “IV league,” after the Roman numeral four. The answer to this question, though, is found in the preface of Mark F. Bernstein’s “Football: The Ivy League Origins of an American Obsession” (Pennsylvania, 2001).
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Empowered
In politics, even a loss can be turned to advantage if one plays one’s cards right. And that’s exactly what former broadcast journalist Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky has done with her brief tenure as a U.S. representative.