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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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Former Students Name Ancient Frog Fossil In Honor Of Peter Dodson
PHILADELPHIA Two former students have named a 75-million-year-old frog species in honor of vertebrate paleontologist Peter Dodson of the University of Pennsylvania. Dating to the Cretaceous era, the newfound species, Nezpercius dodsoni, also commemorates the Nez Perce tribe of Native Americans. The fossil frog was unearthed in central Montana, near where the tribe crossed the Missouri River as it was pursued toward Canada in 1877.
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Spurred By The WorldWide Fight Against Malaria, Scientists Release Parasite Genome Database
PHILADELPHIA An international team of scientists today unveiled an Internet-based database allowing genomic analysis of Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite responsible for the vast majority of malaria deaths worldwide. Developed as a collaboration between two research teams at the University of Pennsylvania, the Plasmodium genome database breaks new ground in bioinformatics by permitting detailed analysis of a genome even before its sequencing is complete.
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Police, museum each name two
Anthony Whittington has been named manager of administration and finance in the Division of Public Safety, Chief of Police Maureen Rush announced. Whittington, who was formerly a senior budget analyst for the Office of Budget and Management Analysis has worked at the University since 1986. He began in the Comptroller’s Office, quickly working his way up from file clerk to assistant supervisor. He then worked as an accountant for the Office of the Vice Provost for University Life, and then rose to associate director in the Treasurer’s Office.
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Jon Ang
Jon Ang (W’97) started out a typical Wharton student, moving from securities classes to summer internships to an entry-level analyst position at a New York financial firm. But something was missing. He’d done community service since high school, and the fast-paced, demanding world of investment banking left him no time for the activities he calls “giving back.”
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Whizzes, wannabes flock to classes
Even though Lisa Kucharski is a computer science engineering major, she plans to take all the different classes offered by College House Computing this semester.
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Chicago wows Philadelphia
All the 196 chairs in 200 College Hall were occupied 10 minutes before feminist artist Judy Chicago was due to begin her speech on March 27. Relative latecomers lined the room’s walls, and Chicago herself had to scrounge for seating. The acclaimed pioneer of feminist art gathered the folds of her maroon dress and sat herself on the stairs leading to the stage to wait for her introduction. She adjusted her large, rose-tinted glasses and smiled brightly at the first row of the audience sitting barely two feet away.
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Community schools go international
Penn hosted an international conference on community schools last week. The International Conference on Higher-Education-Assisted Community Schools held March 29 to 30, and sponsored by the Center for Community Partnerships, brought together faculty members from more than 45 higher education institutions and their school and community partners. We asked the center’s director to comment on the growth of college- and university-assisted community schools.
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“Acting out in a violent way is one way of demonstrating to the world that you exist, that you matter.”
Richard Gelles, Joanne and Raymond Welsh Chair of Child Welfare and Family, on recent school shootings (“CBS Morning News,” March 23)
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“I love this place. I walk in here and giggle every morning.”
Bill Berner bubbles over with enthusiasm as he shows a visitor around his workplace, a cavernous warehouse full of scientific equipment. The wild-haired, large-eyed Berner resembles Albert Einstein and would be right at home on a Saturday morning kids’ science show. And the job he has at Penn — designing, setting up and maintaining the equipment for demonstrations in physics classes — fits this image perfectly.