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Rubenstein named EVP and dean
The new executive vice president for the Health System and dean of the School of Medicine is an accomplished medical researcher and administrator. But Arthur H. Rubenstein, M.D., is still a teacher at heart. “It’s in my bones and blood,” he said at a July 31 news conference. “I hope to teach in any way I can” while running the system. Rubenstein, 63, was named to the dual posts July 30.
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Chinese opera meets Western symphony
May 26: We arrived at Tsinghua University in the late afternoon for our first rehearsal in China. This was our first time rehearsing with our guest musicians, Zhao Yihua and Li Yiping playing, respectively, the jinghu and the pipa, two traditional Chinese instruments. Sun Ping, Dr. Averbach, and the orchestra had all grown relatively accustomed to one another through our many rehearsals at Penn, but Mr. Zhao and Mr. Li were new to this cross-cultural music. They had to understand how they were to mesh with the orchestra, Sun Ping, and Dr. Averbach.
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"I'd love to be involved with policy, the policy decisions."
The new chair of the A-3 Assembly got there on the spur of the moment: A colleague invited Troy Odom (C’96) to attend an A-3 Assembly general meeting last spring. As luck would have it, the meeting was also the group’s general election, and the person who had planned to run for chair could not do so due to illness. So Odom decided to run on the spot, and won. And now he’s thinking, Wouldn’t it be great if more people knew about all the things Penn staff can take advantage of?
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A minute or two on...
After taking last summer off for the Republican Convention, Summer Programs’ popular 60-Second Lecture Series returned to campus this summer, featuring some of Penn’s best faculty speaking — briefly — on subjects of interest. Excerpts from the best of this summer’s lectures appear below.
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A tale of two thespians
This is a tale of two thespians. One is a major in theater arts and English. The other started out in pre-med and quickly switched to anthropology. One knew she wanted to explore acting from the age of 9. The other joined a Penn student-theater company because it sounded like something interesting to do. Now, both of them — actress Gabriela Ianoale (C’02) and technician Alison Fair (C’02) — are on their way to professional careers in the theater after spending this summer gaining new skills on Jane Wallace Memorial Theatre Internship Scholarships.
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Richard Gelles Named Interim Dean Of School Of Social Work At University Of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA Richard Gelles has been named interim dean of the School of the Social Work at the University of Pennsylvania, effective Sept. 1. His appointment was announced today by Judith Rodin, Penn president, and Robert Barchi, the provost.Gelles, the Joanne T. and Raymond B. Welsh Professor in Child Welfare and Family Violence, is, Rodin said, "an accomplished scholar, outstanding researcher and experienced administrator."
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Sabloff named to Smithsonian panel
In an effort to sharpen its scientific research, the Smithsonian Institution has appointed Jeremy Sabloff chairman of its science advisory commission. Sabloff, the Williams Director of the University’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and 17 other commission members will explore various topics, including the relationship between research and public programming. The commission members, whose areas of expertise span studies from anthropology to zoology, were selected by nationally recognized leaders in the scientific and academic community.
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Penn-Assisted School Opens Doors To K-1 Students Sept. 6
PHILADELPHIA While its future home may be only an outline in red and white steel girders, the new University of Pennsylvania-assisted public school at 42nd and Locust streets will open Sept. 6 for some 120 students in kindergarten and grade one.While the new building is under construction, classes will be held in a wing of a now-closed divinity school that occupies the site. Students at the still-to-be-named facility will benefit from a school designed from the ground up to incorporate the "best educational practices" that have borne the tests of research and time.
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NSF Awards Penn Scientists $1 Million To Identify Better, Earlier Means Of 'Debugging' Embedded Computers
PHILADELPHIA The National Science Foundation has awarded $1 million to a University of Pennsylvania team to identify better techniques for software development, particularly ways to get a jump-start, during product design, on debugging the embedded computers that run modern automobiles and a host of other electronic devices and appliances.
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Penn Freshmen Get A Start On Their Ivy League Education Even Before They Get To Campus
PHILADELPHIA -- It's easy to see the final line in Voltaire's "Candide" hanging on the wall above an executive's head in a neatly matted frame: "e must cultivate our garden." Or perhaps on an inspiring desk calendar in a clean crisp font? This phrase radiates an optimistic energy; a hard-work-pays-off spirit.Or does it?The ambiguity and multi-tiered interpretations are what makes "Candide" this year's choice for the Penn Reading Project.