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Charitable staff turn trash to treasure
Every September, a tide of some 10,000 students rolls into University City to begin another year at Penn. And when the tide rolls out the following May, it leaves behind a mountain of material goods that have to be disposed of somehow. Of course, one person’s trash is another’s treasure, and the stuff Penn students leave behind underscores the truth of the old saying. “It looked like a thrift shop in the lobby,” said Mike Latimore, front desk manager at Harrison College House, of the food, clothing and household goods departing students donated to charities.
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Power tools for your career at Penn
These Learning and Education courses from Human Resources will help boost your career. For information, call 215-898-3400 or visit www.hr.upenn.edu/learning. Registration required. The Penn Perspective Understand the business of running an institution as large and diverse as Penn. Come away with an appreciation for the role you play in this process - June 25 and 26, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall, $50, continental breakfast and lunch included
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Penn Undergraduate Thesis Exhibition Goes SoHo
PHILADELPHIA -- Some artists dream of having their work displayed in an illustrious gallery in New York City. For a group of University of Pennsylvania undergraduate fine-art students this is becoming a reality. An opening reception on June 6 will present the "2002 Senior Thesis Exhibition, Undergraduate Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania" at the Louis K. Meisel Gallery at 141 Prince Street in New York. The show runs through June 19.
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Penn Historian Adds New Dimension to Modern Era: A Distinctive 'Soundscape' Shaped by Technology
PHILADELPHIA – "Modernism" calls to mind the literature of Joyce, the art of Picasso, the music of Stravinsky, the architecture of Le Corbusier. A new book by a University of Pennsylvania historian suggests that the new "soundscape" that emerged between 1900 and 1933 – an aural environment shaped by technologies such as acoustical tiles, public address systems and microphones – represents an equally distinctive facet of the modern era.
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Study Finds Cognitive Therapy at Least as Effective as Drugs in Long-Term Treatment of Severe Depression
PHILADELPHIA – A new study indicates that cognitive therapy is at least as effective as medication for long-term treatment of severe depression, and it is less expensive. The findings, by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt University, undercut opinions now held by many in the psychiatric profession.Principal investigators Robert J. DeRubeis of Penn and Steven D. Hollon of Vanderbilt and their colleagues will present the work Thursday, May 23 at the annual conference of the American Psychiatric Association in Philadelphia.
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"At the Cutting Edge: The State of the Art Quilt " at the Arthur Ross Gallery
WHO: Philadelphia artists Cindy Friedman, Amy Orr, Leslie Pontz, Emily Richardson, Lonni Rossi and Deborah SchwartzmanWHAT: "At the Cutting Edge: The State of the Art Quilt" exhibitionWHERE: Arthur Ross Gallery, Furness Library Building, University of Pennsylvania, 220 S. 34th Street.WHEN: June 15 through July 28, 2002.
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Scientists Find a Gene That's Key to Cloning Success but Also Hints at Serious Hurdles to Reproductive Cloning
PHILADELPHIA – Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have found that the activity of a single gene is a powerful predictor of whether newly cloned mammalian embryos will survive and thrive, but the gene's sporadic expression in cloned mouse embryos casts fresh doubt on prospects for reproductive human cloning.The findings, by a team led by K. John McLaughlin and Hans R. Schöler of Penn's School of Veterinary Medicine, are described in the May 15 issue of the journal Genes & Development.
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Michael Eric Dyson Named to Faculty at Penn
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania has announced the appointment of Michael Eric Dyson as Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities. Dyson, 43, is currently the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Professor and Professor of Religious Studies at DePaul University. He has taught at the Chicago Theological Seminary, the University of North Carolina, and Columbia and Brown universities. At Penn, he will teach courses in the Religious Studies department and in the Afro-American Studies program.
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Penn's Judith Rodin: U.S. needs "a constant infusion of brainpower from all over the world"
All knowledge, including the fruits of our research, is not the birthright of a nation, but a gift to the world. As America's first University, Penn embraces this truth. We welcome students and scholars from around the globe. While they come to Penn to pursue opportunity and excellence in their chosen fields, they dramatically expand our body of knowledge, raise our cultural awareness, and invariably make spectacular contributions to the world.
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Jim Lehrer's Commencement Address to the 246th Graduating Class of the University of Pennsylvania
Thank you very much. It is a supreme honor and pleasure to be with all of you here this morning, in the Pennsylvania sunshine. I am most particularly pleased to be honored in the same breath with Joan Ganz Cooney, Eric Hobsbawm, Irwin Jacobs, Richard E. Smalley, and all of you, our sister and brother classmates in the class of 2002. If we are in fact known by the company we keep, I know I will never do any better than this.