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Bookquick/“The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti”
Michelangelo’s paintings in the Sistine Chapel, his sculpture “David” in Florence, and his “Pietà” at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome are among the most admired works of art in the world. Over the centuries, Michelangelo’s life has been the subject of many biographies, but it was not until John Addington Symonds’ “The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti,” in 1893, that a biographer had complete access to the artist’s family archives.
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D.C. beckons: Penn’s fundraiser-in-chief, Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations Virginia Clark, is off to Washington to fill the nation’s attic with cash. Clark will leave Penn at the end of the summer to become director of external affairs at the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum and research complex.
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Get a Grip, Colonel: Next-Generation Training of U.S. Peacekeepers is One Part Technology, One Part Psychology
PHILADELPHIA American troops may soon prepare for their assignments by pitting themselves against virtual "mobs" and "terrorists" developed by computer scientists at the University of Pennsylvania. The goal of the project, rooted in studies by social scientists, is computer-generated figures that mimic the complex behavior of real-life adversaries. Barry G. Silverman, lead researcher on the three-year effort, will present a behavioral framework for the training system May 7 at the annual Computer-Generated Forces and Behavioral Representation Conference in Orlando, Fla.
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Public Sculptor Robinson Fredenthal Exhibit at Penn's Architectural Archives
WHO: Robinson FredenthalWHAT: Off the Wall: Current Work by Robinson Fredenthal.A Special ExhibitionWHERE: Kroiz Gallery, Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania, 220 S. 34th St.WHEN: May 11 through Sept. 30Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays, weekends by appointment. Open Penn's Alumni Weekend, Saturday and Sunday, May 11-12, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m.EVENT: Opening reception, May 11, 5-7 p.m. RSVP at 215-898-8323
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Troubled Youth Leads to Academic Honor for University of Pennsylvania Student
PHILADELPHIA Brian Kauffman failed 10th, 11th and twelfth grades. The height of his potential seemed to be his job as second assistant manager at a car wash. But on May 13th, Kauffman, now 29, will earn his bachelor degree in Classics from the University of Pennsylvania College of General Studies and receive the highest academic prize given by Penn to an adult undergraduate student.
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Penn Professor Inducted into American Academy of Arts and Sciences
PHILADELPHIA Robert Boruch, a professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and a statistics professor at Penn Wharton School, has been named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Class of 2002. Boruch is also a professor at the Fels Center of Government and the Annenberg School for Communication Summer Institute and a fellow at the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, all at the University of Pennsylvania.
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HR classes for your career
Human Resources has classes that can make all the difference in your career. Classes meet at 3624 Market St., Suite 1B South, unless otherwise noted. For information, call 215-898-3400 or visit www.hr.upenn.edu/learning. Registration required. Negotiating to Win
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Activist bureaucrat
In the 1960s and 1970s, when Ira Harkavy was a student at Penn, its reputation with its neighbors was that of an 800-pound gorilla throwing its weight around West Philadelphia. The mistrust was so deep that even a laboratory high school proposed for the neighborhood met with strong objections.
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“If Jesus Christ himself were the leader of the Palestinians over the past number of years, he could not have done much different, much more than Yasir Arafat.”
—Ian Lustick, Richard L. Simon Chair in the Social Sciences, on the Middle East conflict (“Alan Keyes is Making Sense,” MSNBC, April 11)
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“An Archaeological History of Japan, 30,000 B.C. to A.D. 700”
A notion widely shared among the Japanese is that a unique culture has existed uninterrupted on the archipelago since the first human settlements more than 30,000 years ago. “An Archaeological History of Japan,” the inaugural volume in Penn Press’s new series “Archaeology, Culture, and Society,” challenges this notion by critically examining archaeological evidence and the ways in which it has been interpreted.