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MacDiarmid shines twice more
Alan MacDiarmid, Ph.D., was honored in March by the School of Arts and Sciences as its longest-serving employee. The honor was bestowed at the annual SAS service awards recognition party.
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Show your daughter the ropes
On Take Our Daughters to Work Day, Thursday, April 26, girls 9 to 15 can learn about the world of work, careers, and other matters, including health, nutrition and fitness. Young girls and their sponsors can meet prominent Penn women at work, sit in on the Penn Relays, tour the David Rittenhouse Laboratory observatory and more. The event is sponsored by Penn’s Quality of Work Life Program. For information or to register for activities, visit www.hr.upenn.edu/quality/daughters.htm on the Web.
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Penn animal docs answer English SOS
Two Penn veterinarians are lending a hand in efforts to halt the foot-and-mouth disease crisis in the British Isles. Research associates Linda Baker and Helen Aceto, who work at the New Bolton Center, the University’s large-animal hospital and teaching facility, left for England two weeks ago for a month of volunteer work to help overwhelmed British veterinarians cope with the fast-spreading disease.
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Schuylkill’s Left Bank — c’est magnifique
The “April in Paris” gala at the new Left Bank Apartments was aglitter with well-heeled and well-coiffed building preservationists. They munched on mini-quiches, sausage en croûte, salmon on toast and asparagus spears wrapped in buttery phyllo cummerbunds. But the real gem of the event was the building itself, which only 12 months ago was a post-industrial eyesore. To celebrate the building’s resurrection, members of the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia (PAGP) turned out for the April 4 event, a benefit for PAGP.
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Big changes after years of Noh “women”
When Ayako Kano was an undergraduate in Japan, she became fascinated with traditional Japanese Noh theater and its Western adaptations. In her research, Kano said, she realized half of the human race was nearly absent from her subject matter. “I started wondering, Where are the women in Japanese theater?” She had good reason to wonder. For more than two centuries, there weren’t any.
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“The Sheik”
E. M. Hull 304 pages, $14.95 paper
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The world comes to Philly
For its tenth anniversary, the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema has broadened its horizons.
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Albright defends policies
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright combined reflection, humor and diplomacy in an address that received an enthusiastic response from a capacity crowd in Irvine Auditorium April 3. Reflecting on women’s changing role in the world and on her own life and career, Albright noted that as a student at Wellesley College in the 1950s, she was told that a woman’s highest duty was to get married and raise smart children. “There were limits to the horizons of any young woman,” she said — and then talked about her sky’s-the-limit career as an academic and then as a diplomat.
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Penn athletes score
In an exciting year for Penn athletics, these highlights shine: Academic all-stars The athlete-scholar leads a dual life. Success is fueled by a competitive edge both on the playing field and inside the classroom. The Ivy League has recognized the following students for their athletic prowess and their academic excellence:
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“Every day I wake up and make a decision to take care of my child.”
Being a single parent can be tough. There’s work, home and children to juggle, and the responsibility for all three falls on just one person. On top of that, finding support can be difficult. That’s no longer the case at Penn, though. Joy Keys — herself a single parent — has started a support group, the Single Parents Association, for people like herself. The group provides a way for single parents and their children to socialize, engage in activities and find support.