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Students organize ICA exhibit
Sue Ann Prince’s department head asked her last year to create a course that would allow Penn art history students to work closely with the Institute of Contemporary Art. Prince took the assignment on willingly, and delivered something new and different in the field — an opportunity for students to curate an exhibition at the ICA. The seven students in her new course, Contemporary Art and the Art of Curating, spent the fall learning how and why museums came to exist and the assumptions that shape how exhibits are organized and works displayed.
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Students win study grants here and abroad
Nine Penn students have been selected to receive Fulbright grants for study abroad next year. The undergraduate Fellows are: Ian Gelfand (C/EAS’01), a materials science major, who will study in Germany; Andrea Morton (C’01), a German/international relations major, who will study in Germany; Jasmine Park (C’01), an English major, who will study in Korea;
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Can’t get God off your mind? Here’s why
Andrew Newberg attracted a small crowd to his talk at the Penn Bookstore over a lunch hour last month. With a click of his laptop’s mouse, he projected a picture of the human brain onto the wall behind him. The brain rotated in space. Different areas of the brain were highlighted in different colors.
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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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Penn Faculty Members Named Fellows Of American Academy Of Arts And Sciences
PHILADELPHIA Three University of Pennsylvania faculty members who have distinguished themselves in communications, music and economics have been elected Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of Penn Annenberg School for Communication and director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center ; Robert Summers, professor emeritus of economics; and Gary Tomlinson, professor of humanities, will join the new class of 185 Fellows and 26 Foreign Honorary Members from 15 nations.