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CEO for real
Robert D. Martin, Ph.D., interim chief executive officer and chief operating officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, has been named to the CEO position on a permanent basis. President Judith Rodin announced the appointment May 14. During Martin’s tenure as interim CEO, the Health System returned to profitability after several years of losses. For the first half of fiscal year 2001, the system posted an $18.5 million operating profit, and indicators point to a profitable year overall.
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Late nights and jelly beans
In keeping with Wharton tradition, graduating senior Aaron Karo (W’01) delivered the address at the Wharton Undergraduate and Evening Division degree ceremony May 20. Here are excerpts from his look back across four years at Penn: Any discussion of the Wharton experience must, of course, begin with Steinberg-Dietrich Hall, or “Steiny-D” as it is affectionately called by its bleary-eyed inhabitants. Steiny-D is the place where we, the world’s future business leaders, learned the basics of finance, accounting and marketing.
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Were blind, but now dogs see
Bennett’s team tried the gene therapy on mice like the one on her shoulder before successfully repeating it in dogs like Lancelot (in photo behind her right arm). Bennett took Lancelot with her to Washington when she testified before Congress about the procedure May 23. Photo by Daniel R. Burke
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War and Slavery in Sudan
Jok Madut Jok 240 pages, 4 black-and-white illustrations, 2 maps, $24.95 paper Slavery has been endemic in Sudan for thousands of years. Today the Sudanese slave trade persists as a complex network of buyers, sellers, and middlemen that operates most actively when times are favorable.
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Mayor Street asks grads to stick around
John Street wore two hats when he spoke to the graduating class of the Graduate School of Fine Arts May 21—that of mayor of Philadelphia and that of proud Penn parent. The mayor, his wife, Naomi Post, and his son Sharif were all in attendance as his daughter Rashida Zakia Ng (a married name) received her master’s degree in architecture from the GSFA. Before Ng and her 167 fellow May graduates received their diplomas, though, Street had a few words for them.
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Penn Paleontologists Locate A New Genus Of Colossal Dinosaur Along An Ancient Coastline
PHILADELPHIA University of Pennsylvania researchers have unearthed a new genus of gargantuan dinosaur in a corner of Egypt that paleontologists had all but ignored since World War II, when earlier finds stored in German museums were blasted from existence by Allied warplanes. In the June 1 issue of Science, the Penn team reports on its discovery of Paralititan stromeri, one of the most massive animals ever to walk the earth, and presents evidence that the quadruped walked in ancient mangrove swamps in what is now the Sahara Desert.
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Fine Arts gets a state-of-the-art home
Fine Arts Undergraduate Chair Julie Schneider looked like a kid in a candy store as she led me through the new Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall a few weeks back. “I’m so pleased to be here,” she said, “and could not have imagined how well it all turned out.” It turned out that the fire that destroyed what was to have been Charles Addams Hall was a blessing in disguise, for the fine arts department wound up getting a larger building — the former Faculty Club — as a consolation prize.
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“Anything done to this picture could become a disaster.”
Leo Steinberg, professor of history of art emeritus, on a planned restoration of Leonardo da Vinci’s unfinished painting “The Adoration of the Magi” (The New York Times, May 23)
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“I guess I just love the festivities, the whole atmosphere.”
To hear Phyllis Pompa talk about Penn, you’d think she was an alumna herself. But she’s not. She’s merely a loyal and devoted staffer who sees her job as “spreading the gospel of Benjamin.” Benjamin Franklin and his university, that is. And each spring, she’s there to meet the faithful as they make their annual pilgrimage back to campus. Pompa is one of roughly 175 staff and faculty volunteers who, along with 60 undergraduate students, make the Penn grads who return for Alumni Weekend feel at home.
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John McCain
John S. McCain, the senator from Arizona whose independent spirit enlivened his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, delivered the 245th Commencement address. Here are excerpts from his talk: