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Q&A: Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum
In a few short years, Penn has dramatically improved its reputation and sparked a renaissance in its home neighborhood. But its students, by and large, still head elsewhere to pursue their careers or further study.
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Ah-choo, flu With sneezes and sniffles, the flu season is beginning. Penn’s Occupational Medicine department will once again offer flu shots for faculty and staff. However, they will be available by mid-December, which is later than usual, and in smaller quantities, so people are urged to receive immunization from a personal physician. Those who are at high risk for complications with influenza, such as persons over 65 years old, residents of chronic-care facilities and pregnant women, will receive first priority for vaccination.
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Solar flair: A new documentary film, “Raycing the Sun,” chronicles the latest efforts of the Penn Solar Racing Team to beat the best at the 2001 American Solar Challenge this past July. (How’d they do? You’ll have to watch the film.) The film, produced by local production company GreenWorks, received its premiere at the Engineering School Nov. 7. Several members of the team, including electrical crew leader Gary Lam (EAS’02), who was featured in the film, were on hand to answer questions from the audience.
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Survey says...
We’ve tallied up the responses to our readers’ survey and you say you like The Penn Current. But you also say that you want more from the paper—longer stories and more coverage of workplace matters. So we’re making some big changes in content and appearance, starting with our Jan. 24 issue. Whether you read the paper in print or on-line, those of you who responded to our survey give the paper high marks for overall quality, quality of writing and appearance. And you find many of our regular features useful and interesting.
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For What It's Worth: Inequities on film
Feminism is not passé but it is somewhat in disrepute in and out of academe. In spite of the fact that many women have entered politics and the corporate world and have rallied for reproductive rights, most of the women throughout the world are still second-class citizens.
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Snapshot: Talk, music and lots of camaraderie
George Crumb, 72, and George Rochberg, 82, longtime friends, retired Penn professors and noted classical composers, reunited to hear their music played and to talk about the musical world they greatly influenced in a Nov. 10 event sponsored by the Society for Music Theory and Penn’s Department of Music. As I entered Irvine Auditorium for the event, a hushed audience waited with anticipation to hear music by “the Georges.”
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Editor's Pick: Yule cheer for Philadanco!
The Lord & Taylor light show. “Black Nativity.” The tree in Rittenhouse Square. Add “Xmas Philes” to this list of Philadelphia holiday traditions. The Philadelphia Dance Company’s exuberant tribute to the Christmas season, commissioned by Dance Celebration in 2000, returns to the Annenberg Center stage Dec. 6-9. Featuring a jazzy rendition of “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” and a childlike version of “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” choreographer Daniel Ezralow’s “Xmas Philes” was praised as “infectious fun” by The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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“Books and Readers in Early Modern England”
“Books and Readers in Early Modern England” examines readers, reading and publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. The essays draw on an array of documentary evidence to explore individual reading habits in a period of religious dissent, political instability and cultural transformation. This new book is the third in the Material Texts Series, edited by Penn Professor of English Peter Stallybrass et al.
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Kill-a-watt
Penn’s hard look at its energy use, which began last summer, is now reaping praise from external agencies. Associate Vice President of Facilities Operations Barry Hilts said the school has garnered recognition for its approach to energy conservation from governmental offices like Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection.
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Research: Little labs for quick reactions
What if you could carry a complex scientific experiment right in the palm of your hands? A recent $1.26 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration to Penn researchers can help make such portable laboratories a reality. Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics Haim H. Bau is leading Penn’s investigation of microfluidic systems.