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Profs dig a freshman’s talk on dinosaurs
The heavy hitters in Penn’s earth and environmental science department — including the heaviest hitter of all, Professor and Chairman Bob Giegengack — turned out March 23 to hear a freshman talk about dinosaurs over a catered lunch.
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Looking to buy? Come to the fair
If you’re a faculty or staff member who’s in the market to buy a new home — even if it’s not in University City — the Office of Community Housing’s annual Home Buyers Housing Fair is for you.
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Spring Break highlights
A beach does not necessarily a spring break make. So we asked some students, What made their spring break great? Alas, one of the answers was unprintable. Wasn’t he worried his mother would read this publication? Well we were, even if he wasn’t. So we blue-penciled the hot details. After all, this is not “Temptation Island.” But not everybody went someplace hot, hot, hot. Some headed for the cold, cold, cold and some just headed for home, where they still found some unexpected highlights that made their spring breaks special.
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Student discovers his Latino soul
Ramon Marmolejos (C/W’01) emigrated from the Dominican Republic to the multicultural mecca of New York City with his parents when he was five. But he didn’t get plugged into Dominican and Latino culture until he came to Penn. This may sound strange, but he has an explanation. “Most of the Dominicans in New York live in Washington Heights” in upper Manhattan, he said. “I lived most of my life in Queens and went to a semi-private day school. “So when I got here, I had a thirst for learning about Latino culture.”
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Thanks To Internet2's First Educational, International Video Conferences, Penn Students Gain 'High-Tech Pen Pals'
PHILADELPHIA Like so many other things in our society, the time-honored tradition of the faraway pen pal is about to be radically transformed by the Internet age.
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University Of Pennsylvania Police Department Receives National Accreditation
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania Police Department (UPPD) received national accreditation through the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (CALEA), at CALEA spring conference held in Greensboro, North Carolina this past weekend. The University of Pennsylvania Police Department becomes the first nationally accredited campus police agency within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Twenty eight other campus police agencies across the United States are also currently accredited by CALEA.
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“The History of the Mongol Conquests”
J. J. Saunders 296 pages, $19.95 paper The Mongol conquests, culminating with the invasion of Europe in the middle of the 13th century, were of a scope and range never equaled. These nomadic central Asian peoples briefly held sway over an empire that stretched across Asia to the frontiers of Germany and the shores of the Adriatic. Known chiefly through the charismatic leaders Chingis Khan and Kublai Khan, surprisingly little has been written on this vast and immensely influential empire.
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U.S. Senator John S. McCain To Speak At University of Pennsylvania Commencement
PHILADELPHIA -- John S. McCain, U.S. Senator from Arizona and recent presidential candidate, will deliver the Commencement address at the 245th Commencement ceremony of the University of Pennsylvania on Monday, May 21. The ceremony will begin at 9:30 a.m. at Franklin Field, 33rd and South streets. Approximately 6,000 degrees will be conferred.
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Social reform, legal reform
An annual Law School conference that has always brought the worlds of public interest law and social science together took an academic turn this year. The presenters at the 20th Edward V. Sparer Symposium, entitled “Social Movements and Law Reform,” were all professors. And for the first time, the proceedings of the symposium will be published — in the fall 2001 issue of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.
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Campus plan
The Nursing and Biomedical Research buildings are hidden behind the Medical School. And the School of Dental Medicine is out at 40th Street. Integrating those far-flung buildings into the center of campus and bridging the gap between campus and Center City were some of the issues tackled by the new Campus Development Plan approved by a Trustees’ resolution last month. The proposal advocates preserving and extending the three main paths through campus — Locust Walk, Woodland Walk and 36th Street — as physical conduits for the exchange of academic ideas.