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Girl Talk links two worlds — campus and North Philly
Every Wednesday, Beandrea Davis (C’03) leaves Penn behind and travels to Edison High School in North Philly. In lives of the students there, Davis said, she sees a world that could have been hers. “It makes me appreciate things I’ve been given,” said Davis, a French and Afro-American Studies major who spent 11th and 12th grades at a selective boarding school in Connecticut. To her, it’s just an accident of fate that she grew up with the parents she has, getting the education she got.
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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.
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Penn Freshman Is A Contestant on TV's "Hollywood Squares" Game Show
PHILADELPHIA University of Pennsylvania student Joey Tini is among 14 college students from across the nation competing for thousands of dollars in cash and prizes on the television game show, "Hollywood Squares."
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Beck recognized for cognitive therapy research
Aaron Beck, Ph.D., University Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, has received this year’s Heinz Award for the Human Condition from the Heinz Family Foundation. The $250,000 cash prize is one of six awarded each year to recognize outstanding leaders in areas where the late Sen. H. John Heinz III had active interests. Beck’s groundbreaking research in the 1960s created the field of cognitive therapy, which is now the fastest-growing and most extensively studied form of psychotherapy in the United States. Influential Hispanist honored
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'Twas Brillo! The art world took notice
It was just a carton of soap pads. Then Andy Warhol copied it. After that, it became an icon that forced everyone to ask anew, What is art? Arthur Danto, Columbia philosophy professor and art critic for The Nation, has spent more than three decades examining the effect of Warhol’s “Brillo Box” on our understanding of art. And on Jan. 31, in what he called “the last of the ‘Brillo Box’ talks,” Danto mused again on what makes art art.
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Penn seeks wisdom from Pequot rep
In the early days of what became the United States, colonial settlers and Native Americans studied and broke bread together at such places as Harvard, William and Mary and Dartmouth. Now, more than three centuries later, one would be hard pressed to find Native American faces among the students and faculty of these schools and their peers, including Penn.
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Greenhouse helps greenhorns cultivate Web sites
Everybody is doing it. Maybe even your grandmother has posted her own Web page complete with photos of her favorite grandchildren and fluffy white cats. Or maybe you think that Javascript is something to read during a coffee commercial. Perhaps you do know a little something about the Web, but you or your student organization is finding it hard to attract others because you’re using outdated programming languages, the Web equivalent of scrawls on a cave wall.
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"Our universe is a very strange cosmic cocktail."
Max Tegmark, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, on recent research supporting evidence that most of the universe is composed of undetectable “dark matter” (United Press International, Feb. 2).