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People's Choice: Children's Center picks gifts Mom wants
They changed your diapers, bathed you, bought your favorite cereal, packed your lunch, drove you to soccer practice, fed you dinner and kissed you goodnight. Now it’s time to return the love.
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Beck heads Penn IT
- Vice President for Information Systems and Computing Robin Beck succeeds outgoing Vice Provost James J. O’Donnell as Penn’s senior information officer. In this additional role, Beck will have management responsibility for ISC and oversee technology planning and implementation. She will also replace O’Donnell as an ex officio member of the University Council Committee on Communications.
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Track yourself on-line at U@Penn
A new service will make it easier for faculty and staff to keep track of payroll, benefits and personal information. U@Penn, which will go live May 14, offers on-line access to pay stub information, said Comptroller Ken Campbell. Faculty and staff can also view benefits choices, and payroll and personnel data, including addresses, emergency contacts, tax filing status, tax withholding and direct deposit information. In addition, non-exempt (weekly-paid) employees will also be able to view their paid-time-off balances using the system.
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Color teen smokers blue and vulnerable
So why is it that more than one in every three adolescents currently smoke? Janet Audrain-McGovern, professor of psychology in psychiatry, is one of a team of researchers at Penn and Georgetown University who are in search of answers to that question. Her latest study, published in the March issue of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology, suggests that while the effects of tobacco advertising have something to do with the rate of teenage smoking, advertising is not the only influence that gets teens to light up.
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Ask Benny: A reader challenges Benny's facts
Dear Benny,
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“If they buy the team, I know that Mark DeRosa (W’97) and I will be guaranteed jobs.”
—Phillies outfielder Doug Glanville (EAS’93) on the Penn students who organized a buy-the-Montreal-Expos campaign (National Post [Toronto], April 20)
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Out and About: How I got on top of old smoking
Staring at my 36th birthday, I realized I had been a smoker for more than half of my life. On my own, I “tried everything” to quit—many times. I needed help. Then in November, I discovered an advertisement for the Penn Tobacco Use Resource Center, so I called, answered some questions, and learned I was eligible to participate in the ongoing Quit for Health program, a study that examines smokers’ responses to different forms of stop-smoking treatments.
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Chief of Penn's finest
Let’s start out by disposing of the question everyone asks the chief of the Penn Police: Do you get kidded about your name? “What I get is just that question,” Thomas Rambo said. “That’s about it. ‘I guess you get kidded about your name.’ Then they go, ‘Well, what do they say?’” They probably don’t say much, for Rambo is about as far from Sylvester Stallone’s hungry-for-revenge Vietnam vet as it is possible to get. The affable 38-year-old is eager to show off the department he runs and takes pride in the way it has gone about making the campus and the area near it safer.
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Two gold medals for Summer Sessions team
- The University Continuing Educational Association awarded two gold medals to Penn Summer Sessions for excellence in marketing and publications. The Penn Summer Sessions team—Valerie C. Ross, Bryan Lathrop, Emma Foley, Mandy Danti and Elizabeth Sachs—beat out 400 entries this year to win honors in the publications and campaign categories.
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Anderson examines code of the suites
Thanks to the civil rights movement and affirmative action, blacks now occupy positions in numbers and at levels that were unimaginable as recently as the 1960s. But that success has created a new set of problems, and at a May 1 talk sponsored by the African-American Resource Center, sociologist Elijah Anderson examined some of them.