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New Book Chronicles Lessons in Volunteerism at Philadelphia AIDS organization
PHILADELPHIA One of the founders of MANNA, a renowned Philadelphia AIDS organization, has chronicled his experiences in a new book. "MANNA in the Wilderness of AIDS: Ten Lessons in Abundance," by Kenwyn Smith contains many vignettes and insights about the growth that comes from serving others. "The greatest teachers in my life so far have been people living with AIDS," Smith said. "What I have learned from being with them is far greater than the cumulative insights I have gleaned from all the books I read and all the courses Ie taken."
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Master French Printmakers to be Featured at Penn's Arthur Ross Gallery
PHILADELPHIA--- "Leaving a Mark: The Art of the Print in 19th Century France" will open April 6 at the University of Pennsylvania Arthur Ross Gallery. The exhibition includes woodblock prints, etchings and lithographs by French masters including Czanne, Degas, Delacroix, Gauguin, Manet and Pissarro. Nearly 80 prints from the Arthur Ross Foundation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and private collections will be featured.
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Penn Students Fight Blight in Las Vegas
PHILADELPHIA When students from the University of Pennsylvania looked at blighted Fremont Street East in Las Vegas, they saw the outline of a swan rather than an ugly duckling. And, in the contrast between Las Vegastowering casinos and down-and-out Fremont Street East, the international and interdisciplinary team from Penn Graduate School of Fine Arts saw the difference between what succeeds and what doesn't.
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The Path to a Neatly Folded Protein, Long the Subject of Debate, Appears in many Cases to be Long and Winding
PHILADELPHIA It a long-simmering debate in the world of physical chemistry: Does the folding of proteins into biologically active shapes better resemble a luge run fast, linear and predictable or the more freeform trajectories of a ski slope? New research from the University of Pennsylvania offers the strongest evidence yet that proteins shimmy into their characteristic shapes not via a single, unyielding route but by paths as individualistic as those followed by skiers coursing from a mountain summit down to the base lodge.
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Penn Professor Solves Mystery from 'Hamlet'
PHILADELPHIA Curiosity about a line from "Hamlet" has led a University of Pennsylvania English professor to discover a tablet that was something of a Renaissance precursor of today personal digital assistants.Teaching a Penn course on "The History of the Book in Early Modern Europe," Peter Stallybrass and history professor Roger Chartier were puzzled by a line in Shakespeare's "Hamlet." Having seen the ghost of his father, Hamlet says: Yea, from the table of my memoryI'll wipe away all trivial fond records,
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Time piece
All this year, the Penn Humanities Forum has been exploring the concept of time—how humans came to understand it, how various cultures kept track of it, what forces shape it—with a series of lectures, discussions and performances.
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“You have to come up with a whole whack of cash just to get into the business.”
—Jon F. Merz, assistant professor in the Center for Bioethics, on how high fees charged by gene patent holders are squeezing small labs (The Ottawa [Ontario] Citizen, Feb. 7)
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EVP John Fry to leave Penn
Executive Vice President John Fry was named last week president of Franklin & Marshall College, in Lancaster, Pa. He will complete the academic year here on campus before moving on in the summer. “This is a great loss to the University, but it is an incredible opportunity for John,” stated President Judith Rodin in a memo to the Trustees. Fry’s accomplishments since his arrival at Penn in 1995 include sweeping changes to the University’s business practices that have led to significant cost savings.
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Hail to 28 who broke the mold
The University has selected 13 employees as 2002 Models of Excellence Award winners for work above and beyond job expectations that made a significant contribution to the University. An additional 15 staff members will receive honorable mentions, the president, provost and executive vice president of the University announced. The awards, to be presented in April, were first introduced by Human Resources in 1999 in honor of people who cut through red tape, showed leadership and thought out of the box, to make things happen.
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Faculty Feature: A Johnny Appleseed shares growing passion
Though the Red Delicious at the grocery store may look enticing with its waxy sheen and perfect heart shape, in taste it’s not worth much, at least according to William Dailey. Dailey, an avid fruit grower, is a self-professed apple connoisseur. He also happens to be a professor of chemistry at Penn. But he’d rather spend his time talking apples, not molecules.