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Chicago wows Philadelphia
All the 196 chairs in 200 College Hall were occupied 10 minutes before feminist artist Judy Chicago was due to begin her speech on March 27. Relative latecomers lined the room’s walls, and Chicago herself had to scrounge for seating. The acclaimed pioneer of feminist art gathered the folds of her maroon dress and sat herself on the stairs leading to the stage to wait for her introduction. She adjusted her large, rose-tinted glasses and smiled brightly at the first row of the audience sitting barely two feet away.
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Community schools go international
Penn hosted an international conference on community schools last week. The International Conference on Higher-Education-Assisted Community Schools held March 29 to 30, and sponsored by the Center for Community Partnerships, brought together faculty members from more than 45 higher education institutions and their school and community partners. We asked the center’s director to comment on the growth of college- and university-assisted community schools.
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“Acting out in a violent way is one way of demonstrating to the world that you exist, that you matter.”
Richard Gelles, Joanne and Raymond Welsh Chair of Child Welfare and Family, on recent school shootings (“CBS Morning News,” March 23)
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“I love this place. I walk in here and giggle every morning.”
Bill Berner bubbles over with enthusiasm as he shows a visitor around his workplace, a cavernous warehouse full of scientific equipment. The wild-haired, large-eyed Berner resembles Albert Einstein and would be right at home on a Saturday morning kids’ science show. And the job he has at Penn — designing, setting up and maintaining the equipment for demonstrations in physics classes — fits this image perfectly.
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Three Sloans for research
Three Penn scientists have received research awards from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation this year. Intended to enhance the careers of the very best young faculty members, 100 of these grants are awarded across the nation annually in six fields: chemistry, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience and physics.
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The right stuff
Novelist Tom Wolfe has spent more than three decades chronicling American culture and its foibles with uncanny accuracy and wit. His latest novel, “A Man in Full,” explores the New South and American race relations today, just as his celebrated novel “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” first serialized in Rolling Stone, captured the class structure and politics of New York in the 1980s.
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He who integrated circuits
Jack St. Clair Kilby did not set out to change the world when he began tinkering with the idea of an integrated circuit back in the 1950s. “In 1958 my goals were simple — lower the cost, simplify the assembly and make things faster and cheaper,” he said of the research effort he led at Texas Instruments that produced the first integrated circuit.
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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.