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New dean
After serving as interim dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science since Aug. 1, 1998, Eduardo Glandt, Ph.D., hit the ground running upon his Nov. 8 appointment as dean. Just days later, he listed a seven-point agenda ofthings he wanted to accomplish immediately. One of his new missions was to take advantage of “the strategic location we have in Philadelphia. It’s a great place for an engineering school,” he said.
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Undergraduates publish on the Web
Richard Kiok knows a good thing when he sees it. When he got a mass e-mail from one of the founders of the Journal of Young Investigators, he immediately wrote back to find out how he could assist in the production of the fledgling Web site. “I love undergraduate science and I also love the use of the Web to disseminate information,” Kiok said. “I thought JYI was a good way to combine both.”
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M-word break
The winter break of the so-called millennium is fast approaching (aaargh, we mentioned it), and some of you have noticed and made some pretty wild plans. But only a few of you seem really worried about just another calendar date. Far more scary and far less airy is the prospect of final exams. Pass or die. And then go home and recover. Adam McCabe, Engineering ’99 “I’m Snoop Doggy Dogg trying to get a jobby job, and for New Year’s I’m taking a cruise.”
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TV news grabs student intern
“I’m sitting here as proof that sometimes things just happen,” said Tracy Leeds (C’00). “I had no idea in May that I’d be sitting here talking to you as a full-time employee.” A desk assistant at ABC headquarters in Washington, D.C., Leeds works behind the scenes for news shows like “World News Tonight” and “Nightline.” Leeds, who is an American history major, began at ABC as a summer intern under the aegis of the University’s Washington Semester Program, working with media moguls Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts on “This Week.”
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“Daphne du Maurier, Haunted Heiress”
Nina Auerbach 192 pages; $24.95 cloth “My experience with Daphne du Maurier has always been the same. I devour her, leave her, and vaguely decide that she satisfied some immature neurotic need in me that I no longer have. Then some years later I read her again and I fall into her world. . . . She’s a complex, powerful, unique writer, so unorthodox that no critical tradition, from formalism to feminism, can digest her.”
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Panel examines experimental college
As the School of Arts and Sciences feels its way towards a new curriculum, it might be helpful to learn from earlier efforts to transform undergraduate education. With this in mind, more than 50 students and faculty packed Kelly Writers House Nov. 8 to hear about one of those earlier reforms and review it in a modern context.
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Penn grows the region
A new study of Penn’s impact on the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania economy shows that the University is one of the region’s — and the state’s — main engines of growth.
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People do make the difference
Flo Griffin, manager of finance and administration in Public Safety, donates blood, time and money to the Red Cross and numerous organizations serving children. She was also a beneficiary of the Red Cross’ work during Hurricane Floyd, when she had to stay in a Red Cross shelter in Darby. “Experiencing that first-hand gave me a heightened sense of awareness” of what the Red Cross does, she said. She has since received a pin for donating more than four gallons of blood, and is well on the way to her fifth.
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A better Viagra?
Who would have thought impotence could ever be so chic? Once a subject to be discussed only in hushed tones, the release of the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra has made impotence a hot topic. Impotence affects half of the male population over 40, according to a 1994 study. Now it seems a promising new treatment may be underway. David Christianson, Edmund and Louise Kahn Professor of Chemistry, and three collaborators have published a paper in the Nov. 1 edition of the journal Nature Structural Biology on a potential impotence drug that may work where Viagra does not.
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Sweet stuff and Sting
Like the rest of us this time of year, the folks at “The World Cafe” are caught up in the holiday frenzy, and had only enough time to give us a brief sampling of what’s coming up over the next month. But that sample is enough to show that it’s going to be a swingin’ season. Here’s what’s up for the next week or so; after that — well, tune in and find out. Thursday, Dec. 2 Ethereal folk-popsters The Innocence Mission perform music from their new album “Birds of My Neighborhood”