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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.
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A Grammy and four Fulbrights
George Crumb, D.M.A., Annenberg Professor Emeritus of the Humanities, won a Grammy in February for Best Classical Contemporary Composition for his piece “Star Child,” on his “70th Birthday Album” (Bridge Records). Crumb won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1968, and his piece was recorded under the baton of Thomas Conlin by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Warsaw Philharmonic Chorus with soloists including Joseph Alessi on trombone and Susan Narucki, soprano.
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Funny stuff of the universe
Max Tegmark, who recently helped quantify the universe’s list of ingredients, came to his field by accident. “My interest in cosmology is the product of a failed relationship,” said the assistant professor of physics and astronomy. “She was doing physics and I was doing econ, and all her books looked much more interesting than mine.” Today, Tegmark is contributing research and discoveries to the sorts of books that captured his heart as an undergraduate in his native Sweden. His latest work gives us the most precise measurements of what the universe is made of.
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Scientists Receive $3 Million to Develop Biologically-based Artificial Vision Systems
PHILADELPHIA A team of researchers from three universities, led by a University of Pennsylvania bioengineer, has won a $3 million grant for work toward artificial-vision technologies that might detect patterns as robustly as the human brain. The work could lead to satellite-based means of detecting environmental destruction, automated systems to detect abnormalities in mammograms and other medical images and computerized approaches to other tasks now possible only through the discretion of the human eye.
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University of Pennsylvania Study Finds Evidence Of Telephone-Based Discrimination in Housing Rentals
PHILADELPHIA Voice mail has become a way for some housing rental agents to discriminate on the basis of race, class and gender. A just released University of Pennsylvania study offers strong new evidence for the existence of telephone-based discrimination in the rental housing market and concludes that some rental agents discriminate by using linguistic cues to screen callers over the phone. The study, conducted in Philadelphia and its suburbs by Penn sociologist Douglas Massey, postdoctoral fellow Garvey Lundy and undergraduate students, concluded that:
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University Of Pennsylvania Prof. Ian McHarg Dies
PHILADELPHIA Ian L. McHarg, 80, an Emeritus Professor of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania, died Monday, March 5 of pulmonary disease at Chester County Hospital. Born in Scotland on November 20, 1920, Prof. McHarg was a U.S. citizen and lived in Unionville, Pa. He was the founder of the Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning Department at Penn and was perhaps best known for introducing environmental concerns in landscape architecture.
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“Early Carolingian Warfare: Prelude to Empire”
“Early Carolingian Warfare” is the first book-length study of how the Frankish dynasty, beginning with Pippin II, established its power and cultivated its military expertise to revive the Roman empire in Western Europe under Charlemagne.
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Research to cure a field in turmoil
The U.S. health care system is in turmoil. And the people who run it and shape it are looking for good advice on how to manage the upheaval. The folks at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI), which brings together faculty from four Penn schools — Medicine, Dental Medicine, Nursing and Wharton — have plenty of advice, based on the latest research in the field. And the institute gets that advice to those who need it — health care executives, legislators and others with a stake in how health care is delivered in America.
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A cool $16 mil.
An archaeologist has given $16 million to the University of Pennsylvania Museum — the largest individual contribution ever made to the Museum and one of the largest to any university museum. The donor, Charles K. Williams II (Gr’78), was field director from 1966 to 1997 of excavations in Greece where many Penn students have done field work. This donation caps his prior gifts to the Museum, totaling more than $5.3 million.