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The world comes to Philly (children’s version)
It really is a small world after all. At least it is while the Philadelphia International Children’s Festival is under way. This year’s 17th edition of the arts and crafts festival for kids, which continues through Sunday, May 6, showcases the world’s diversity in an entertaining and educational fashion, with feature performances from eight groups representing seven countries — Belgium, Canada, China, Italy, Japan, Uganda and the United States.
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Koop prescribes hard work
C. Everett Koop, the former U.S. Surgeon General under Ronald Reagan, had a message of professional pride for more than 300 physicians, nursing students and faculty, and other University affiliates. “For years, when magazines took polls on the most-admired profession, medicine was always number one,” he told his audience during his April 24 talk at the Nursing School. “Now doctors are number 17. Do you know who’s first?” “Nurses,” blurted at least 20 audience members.
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Dialogue begins
“We have begun to have conversations with members of our community on issues of great importance to all of us, and we intend to continue the dialogue.” So said President Judith Rodin and Provost Robert Barchi in a statement they issued following the Penn Police Department’s release of the final investigation report on an altercation at Campus Copy that led to a campus-wide discussion on race and violence.
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Get a house, sha n’na na, sha n’na n’na na
The Office of Community Housing is offering workshops for homeowners and prospective homeowners who are members of the Penn community. Here’s a list of upcoming classes: Community Housing 101: Get general home buying information and learn about Penn’s Guaranteed Mortgage Program. Wednesday, May 16 and June 20, noon to 1 p.m. and 1 to 2 p.m. in Room 720, Franklin Building, 3451 Walnut St.
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“The theory has to be raked over by our colleagues.”
Burt Ovrut, professor of physics and one of the authors of a breakthrough theory on the origin of the universe that brings the Big Bang theory into question (Arizona Republic, April 17)
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“I have this urge to express all this pent-up emotion.”
Panna Naik, a cataloguer in Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, writes books of poetry that hold first prize from a state government, are required reading at her alma mater and have earned her a national reputation as a pioneering feminist poet. Haven’t heard of her? That might be because all these accolades take place in Naik’s native country of India. She moved to the United States with her husband more than 40 years ago but remains relatively unknown here because she writes in her native tongue, the northwest Indian language Gujarati, and has not yet published any volumes in English.
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Two lead social science academy
Lawrence W. Sherman, Ph.D., the Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations in the department of sociology, was elected by the American Academy of Political and Social Science to be its next president for a three-year term effective May 1. The Academy, founded by the first faculty members of Penn’s Wharton School in 1889, publishes the Annals, one of the oldest social-science journals in the United States. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., dean of the Annenberg School of Communication, was elected chair of the Board of Directors of the group.
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Neville Strumpf
Although nurses have long known that they play a critical role in healing the sick, not everyone agreed. Now, Neville Strumpf, interim dean of the School of Nursing, has proof. In her most recent study, Strumpf’s research team documented how elderly patients who had cancerous tumors removed lived longer when advanced practice nurses — nurses with post-baccalaureate training in specialty care — were on hand to monitor conditions, deal with complications and provide advice to family caregivers.
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Wolfe: Fiction is just the facts, ma’am
Good facts make for great fiction. That roughly sums up the message best-selling author Tom Wolfe delivered in a chat with one of his admirers April 18 before a packed Kelly Writers House audience. Wolfe, on campus to deliver the keynote address at the annual School of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Forum, spoke with Professor of English and former Washington Post Style section reporter Paul Hendricksen.
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Veni, vidi, freshgrocer conquered me
I confess that I fell in love with the displays of yellow and red tomatoes, the strawberries and melons, the bats of sugar cane and giant cactus leaves. The bins of olives, the fennel, the red bananas. The initial word on the street and my neighborhood listserv about freshgrocer, the new supermarket at 40th and Walnut streets, open 24 hours a day, was even better than the official hype.