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Nine undergrads selected for study overseas
Thouron awards Eight outstanding students from this side of the Atlantic will be studying in England, come the fall, as Thouron Fellows. The prestigious exchange program allows exceptional U.S. and British students to immerse themselves in the culture and the thinking of another country. The students were selected for qualities — academic excellence, leadership and personal abilities — that would lead them and their home countries to benefit from the exchange. This year’s winners from the University are:
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Cherry blossom time
No need to schlep all the way to Washington to catch the cherry trees in bloom when you can catch this rite of spring right here at the Morris Arboretum.
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Neighbors welcome school
Despite bitter cold, the neighbors were out in force for the groundbreaking for the new neighborhood school at 42nd and Spruce Streets March 1. The preK-8 school is a cooperative effort of the University, the School District of Philadelphia and the teachers union. “I think this school’s going to be an incredible resource,” said neighbor Kate Stover, 44, with her children Lydia Wood, 6, Henry Wood, 3, and husband Tim Wood.
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Election 2000: when the law doesn’t count
The Florida election law was clearly incomplete, and into the gaps jumped the political strategy of both the Bush and Gore camps, and also the politically motivated discretion of public officials charged with important but incompletely regulated functions under the law. Gore could challenge the vote tallies precisely in the places where he was most likely to pick up votes while ignoring counties that might have had more votes for Bush. But it was, apparently, not only a perfectly legal challenge under the statute as written but the only sort of legal challenge envisioned in the law.
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Time to think about summer camp
Yes, it’s still cool out, and the flowers have yet to bloom. But now is the time to get your junior athlete enrolled in one of the many summer sports camps offered at Penn. Day and overnight camps offer kids a chance to learn new skills with Quaker coaches and players and participate in other stimulating activities. To get more information about the camps listed below, including registration fees and deadlines, call the contact person listed for each camp.
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Students show Shakespeare is meant for the stage, not the page
It’s almost like something out of one of those old Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland movies. A couple of students meet for lunch, talk for a while, and then one of them says, “Hey! Let’s put on Shakespeare!” “That’s just about how it happened,” said Nigel Caplan, a master’s student in the Graduate School of Education who, along with Akiva Fox (C’02), started the Underground Shakespeare Company in January after a lunchtime chat led the two to conclude that the campus was ready for low-budget, high-fun Shakespeare plays.
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Total Undergraduate Charges At The University Of Pennsylvania Will Increase 4.9 Percent For 2001-2002
PHILADELPHIA -- Total undergraduate charges for tuition, fees, room and board at the University of Pennsylvania will increase 4.9 percent for the 2001-2002 academic year from $32,996 in 2000-2001 to $34,614 in 2001-2002. The increase was approved today by the Board of Trustees. Tuition and fees for undergraduate students for the 2001-2002 academic year will increase 5.8 percent, from $25,170 to $26,630, and average residential charges will increase 2 percent, from $7,826 to $7,984, yielding an increase in total charges of 4.9 percent.
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“The History of the Mongol Conquests”
J. J. Saunders 296 pages, $19.95 paper The Mongol conquests, culminating with the invasion of Europe in the middle of the 13th century, were of a scope and range never equaled. These nomadic central Asian peoples briefly held sway over an empire that stretched across Asia to the frontiers of Germany and the shores of the Adriatic. Known chiefly through the charismatic leaders Chingis Khan and Kublai Khan, surprisingly little has been written on this vast and immensely influential empire.
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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.