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Ground Breaking Oct. 4 For New Hillel Center At Penn
PHILADELPHIA Local Jewish leaders, University of Pennsylvania officials and scores of students will take part in a ground-breaking ceremony at 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 4 for a new $12 million Hillel Center on the campus.To be located on 39tth Street between Walnut and Locust streets, the 35,000-square-foot center will feature a dramatic two-story glass-enclosed entrance and recreation area, complete with coffee bar, and an outdoor terrace at the front of the building.
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Penn Alumnae Celebrate 125 Years Of Accomplishments; To Gather From All Over The World No. 1-2
PHILADELPHIA For 125 years Penn has served as a launching pad for women. It has provided the career foundation for such outstanding alumnae as Andrea Mitchell, NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent and Penn trustee; Ann Dore McLaughlin, former U.S. Secretary of Labor (1987-89); Susan Ness, former Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission; and Mary Ellen Mark, photo journalist.
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NSF grants $1 million
Toasters, cellular phones, and mammography machines are not as unrelated as they may first seem. These electronic devices, among many others, contain embedded computers which help them run. To promote the reliability of embedded computers, the National Science Foundation has awarded $1 million to a team of Penn researchers. Currently, embedded computers are tested after a product has already been designed, a procedure which decreases the dependability of embedded computers while driving up the cost of electronic devices.
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Ralph Lauren it ain't
Back in the ’60s, the future was something to behold. We would all commute by jet-pack, eat freeze-dried food pellets and wear unisex clothing. Well, the future is here, and it doesn’t look like that at all. Except for the unisex clothing part, where some variation on men’s casual wear has spread throughout society. But even that is not what the inventors of the future envisioned four decades ago.
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Dean named
Penn’s School of Nursing has found a “citizen of the world” in Afaf I. Meleis, Ph.D., said Associate Professor of Nursing Anne Keane. Keane, who is division chair of Foundational Sciences and Health Systems, participated in the year-long search for the new dean of the School of Nursing. She said Meleis’ global accomplishments distinguished her from other candidates. A native of Egypt, Meleis is a medical sociologist and international activist for women’s health issues. She presently serves as vice president of the International Council on Women’s Health.
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Help yourself to a better career
So you’re thinking you’d like to move up in the world, but have no idea how to advance up the career ladder and still remain at Penn. Here are some strategies suggested by your fellow employees. Take advantage of professional development opportunities. Robin Hartley, associate director of the Wharton e-Business Initiative, credits the Professional Development Program offered by Human Resources’ Learning and Education division with getting her focused on what her interests were and how she could pursue them.
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Cliff dwellings for the ages
Seven hundred years after the Native American cliff dwellings now in Mesa Verde National Park were abandoned, they were showing signs of decay — plaster peeling, walls deteriorating. The challenge was to preserve what was left, using all-natural materials — a requirement of the Native American tribes of the Southwest, who venerate the early pueblo dwellings in southwestern Colorado as a sacred ancestral site. Frank Matero, chairman of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, has been working with teams of graduate students since 1993 on preserving the site.
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“Football: The Ivy League Origins of an American Obsession”
Mark F. Bernstein 336 pages, 28 b/w illustrations, $29.95 cloth Every autumn American football fans pack stadiums to root for their favorite teams. Most are unaware that this most popular American sport was created by the teams that now make up the Ivy League.
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Praise for Penn women
“We can do better than that,” Judith Berkowitz (CW’64) thought to herself when she came across a sculpture celebrating 25 years of accomplishments by Yale women one day. We, meaning the women at Penn, who have been here for 125 years. This chance encounter came only days after Sandra Williamson (CW’63), a former chair of the Trustees’ Council of Penn Women, had approached her about heading the 125 Years of Women at Penn celebration. She agreed, of course.
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How to succeed in business at Penn
Like 21 other people, I was in a high-tech auditorium at the end of an ancient, marble-floored corridor in the School of Medicine one hot day in June, listening to a fast-talking, funny man tell me how to market my ideas. The talker was Seth Godin, author of “Unleashing the Idea Virus,” the most downloaded e-book on the Internet. Deepak Chopra could have taken a tip or two from Godin, so motivational, so inspirational was he. Larger than life, too, and almost like life, but not quite.