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'Hi, Mom' Meets High-Tech At Graduation Ceremony For Penn's School Of Engineering And Applied Science
PHILADELPHIA Students graduating from the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science next week will have a much more advanced means of communicating their sentiments than the traditional masking tape atop mortarboards: As each one passes onto the stage to receive a diploma, the scan of a personalized bar code will bring onto a giant overhead screen a web site displaying the student name, hometown and personal comments.
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Two Guggenheims; three named to AAAS
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation provides about 200 fellowships each year for advanced professionals in all fields (natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, creative arts) except the performing arts.
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Forever to the future
Pianist, composer and bandleader Chick Corea has been delighting jazz fans around the world since the 1960s, when he performed with the likes of Mongo Santamaria, Herbie Mann and Stan Getz. In the fusion era, his band Return to Forever explored electronic jazz. And like his fellow fusionists Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock, Corea has since joined the ranks of musicians that have breathed new life into the mainstream jazz tradition, most recently with his three-horn acoustic sextet, Origin.
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Nobel laureates honored
Twenty-five years since they were in the same room together at Penn, three honored scientists reunited on their old stomping grounds for a special symposium. The symposium honoring Nobel laureates Alan MacDiarmid, Alan Heeger and Hideki Shirakawa May 4 and 5 brought them back to Penn’s Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter (LRSM), where the three had conducted the work on conducting polymers — plastics that conduct electricity — that earned them the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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Penn through other eyes
Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Jane Von Bergen, who usually reports what other people have to say, had plenty to say — about students, faculty, The Daily Pennsylvanian — after completing a semester on campus as a Richard Burke Fellow.
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Summer daze
On one of the last days of finals, our correspondent stepped onto campus to find out what amusements and employments Penn students have lined up for the summer months. With the bulk of finals behind them, the students seemed to walk more slowly, to smile more. The afternoon sun suffused Locust Walk with a lazy, partial light. Summer was definitely on its way. TORI KATZ, COLLEGE ’01 “After I graduate, I’m going to attempt to find a job. I’m applying to magazines in New York.”
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Penn Women's Basketball Team Receives Alice Paul Award
PHILADELPHIA -- Two months after the conclusion of the most celebrated season in the program history, the University of Pennsylvania women basketball team has been named one of the 2001 winners of the Alice Paul Awards by the Association of Women Faculty and Administrators at Penn. The team members were honored for their "accomplishments as individuals, as a team and as a representation of the significant contributions Penn women students make to the campus on behalf of women."
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Money, he wrote
At the ripe old age of 19, Arthur Bochner (C’04) is technically no longer a child author. But once upon a time, he published two books, appeared on “The Tonight Show” and “Oprah” and went on two 10-city book tours, all before entering high school. These are hard things for people to forget about. So Arthur Bochner, former child author, still submits cheerfully to interviews about his unusual youth and about the books about money and business for kids which made him a star when he was 11 years old.
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ÒGreater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest
Carl Abbott 256 pages, 35 black-and-white illustrations, $19.95 paper
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Founder Of Penn's Bread Upon The Waters Scholarship Wins Service Award From The College Of General Studies
PHILADELPHIA The University of Pennsylvania College of General Studies will honor Elin Danien with the 2001 CGS Service Award. Danien, 71, is being honored as the founder of the Bread Upon the Waters Scholarship Fund, a program that provides full tuition support to women older than 30 who are earning undergraduate degrees through part-time study at Penn. Since its inception in 1987, the Fund has grown to support nearly 70 women, 32 of whom have graduated.