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The stage was dark at the Annenberg Center far too often when Michael Rose arrived at Penn three years ago. Since then, he’s lit up the stage not only at Annenberg, but in Irvine Auditorium and other places on campus.
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Participants in a day-long conference here on the African AIDS crisis found many things to blame. Panelists blamed the stigma, taboos and denial that surround the disease in Africa. They bemoaned the cultural attitudes that give men control over all sexual encounters and ostracize women who ask their partners to use condoms. They decried corruption, governmental incompetence and the lack of medical infrastructure in many African countries.
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The Rev. Beverly Dale stood preaching to her expectant flock in a soothing voice that sounded a little like Mr. Rogers. But the topic, “Celebrating the Sacred Erotic: A God of Pleasure,” was not exactly children’s television material. Dale’s presentation was the first public Christian Association event since the CA’s early-January relocation from its cavernous home on Locust Walk to a more compact space in Tabernacle Church at 37th and Sansom.
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It’s official University policy that everyone deserves respect in the workplace. But making sure that happens isn’t so much a matter of administrators handing down decrees as it is one of colleagues letting each other know where the boundaries are. To help its faculty and staff understand how to negotiate those boundaries, the School of Engineering and Applied Science brought the Cornell Interactive Theatre Ensemble (CITE) to campus last month for some educational drama.
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PHILADELPHIA The University of Pennsylvania is helping West Philadelphia non-profits keep up-to-date with computer technology through a grant from the Corporation for National Service. The Center for Community Partnerhips at Penn has hired two full-time coordinators to implement computer training and to distribute hardware and software to area churches and high schools. The three-year $171,000 grant began on Jan. 1.
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PHILADELPHIA There new evidence that the story of the legendary founder of the Mayan city of Copan is more than myth.
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PHILADELPHIA--Redleaf Group, Inc. and P2B, Ventures Inc., a subsidiary of The University of Pennsylvania, invite entrepreneurs to an open house for to learn more about PenNetWorks (www.pennetworks.com). PenNetworks enables early stage entrepreneurs to launch and prepare their ventures for first-round funding. PenNetWorks is a pre-seed business accelerator serving the Delaware Valley that is o wned by P2B and managed by the Redleaf Group, Inc., a privately held technology operating company.
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University of Pennsylvania President Judith Rodin and Provost Robert Barchi today announced the establishment of a new Genomics Institute that will spearhead future development in this critical new area. Professor of Biology David Roos has been named Director of the Institute. This initiative comes at a time when many schools and departments at Penn have made genomics research a priority, including the Departments of Biology and Genetics, and the new Cancer Genomics Program of The Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute [AFCRI] at the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center.
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PHILADELPHIA What do you get when you cross an organic chemist with the U.S. Secret Service? In at least one case, such a partnership has resulted in a means of developing fingerprints at crime scenes that less damaging to evidence, more sensitive and less expensive for law enforcement agencies. The class of chemicals the team ultimately fingered, known as indanediones, recently received a U.S. patent, and a European company has obtained a non-exclusive license to the technology.
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PHILADELPHIA In a program designed to connect undergraduate students with accomplished writers, award-winning playwright Tony Kushner will be the first 2001 Kelly Writers House Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Kushner is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize and many other awards for his seven-hour, two-part Broadway production of Angels in America. The other 2001 Fellows will be David Sedaris in March and June Jordan in April.