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Astronomers Gain Best Glimpse Yet Of What Our Universe Is Made Of - And Not Much Of It Is Matter As We Know It
PHILADELPHIA In the most accurate picture yet of the makings of our universe, astronomers have determined that a measly 5 percent of its mass comes from the ordinary matter that makes up planets, stars and gases. The finding, by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., and the University of Colorado at Boulder, is scheduled for publication next month in the journal Physics Review D.
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Penn Fine Arts Faculty Membres Design Cusano Environmental Education
PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia first "green building," the Cusano Environmental Education Center in the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum, has opened. The mission of the project is to demonstrate the importance of the environment to our quality of life. The building features extensive use of recycled materials and wood grown in sustainable, managed forests and an energy-efficient geo-thermal heating and cooling system. The architecture and the design of the site, including landscape, roads and paths, are closely integrated.
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More Current gold
Pennsylvania Current has received a gold award in the Internal and External Publications category of the 2001 Accolades Awards program, run by District II of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). The Current was the sole gold award recipient among the 32 periodicals submitted to the competition by schools in the Middle Atlantic states and Ontario, the region covered by CASE District II. Among other things, the judges cited the paper’s appearance and its fresh treatment of familiar stories.
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Family law responds to a shifting culture
Ozzie and Harriet have gotten divorced, had surrogate babies, have become single parents and may soon fight over the true parent of their cloned infant. All these changes in their lifestyle are being taken to court, and family law has to figure out what rights each of them and their children and the grandparents have.
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Justice O’Connor speaks
The Penn Law School has played a groundbreaking role in American legal education over the course of its 150 years. That much was made clear when Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, told the story of another trailblazing woman in her remarks at the Law School’s 150th anniversary celebration Nov. 17.
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How TV colors people
As part of the Provost’s Lecture Series, Larry Gross, Sol Worth Professor of Communications in the Annenberg School, delivered a lecture Dec. 5 adapted from his essay, “Visibility and its Discontents,” which appeared in the Winter 2000 issue of Images, published by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. The essay is excerpted here:
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Something fishy in the Amazon
Ancient pyramids, cliff dwellings, tools and artwork — and the sites where they’re found — are the bread and butter of traditional archaeology. But Clark Erickson, associate professor of anthropology and a curator at the University Museum, is changing the stuff of archaeology by paying close attention to the spaces between sites, where ancient people shaped the landscape itself. Erickson’s latest research deals with massive earthwork fish traps built hundreds of years ago on the savannas of northeastern Bolivia by the indigenous Baure people.
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Sweet harmony
This two-week “World Cafe” cycle opens in pure harmony with a salute to a cappella music featuring the Persuasions. After that, the folks who play instruments while singing take over again. Thursday, Jan. 18 The Cafe explores all things a cappella with a special visit from the Persuasions Friday, Jan. 19 Bob Weir stops by to talk about the latest Ratdog project, “Evening Moods” Monday, Jan. 22 An encore presentation of Kate Rusby’s visit Tuesday, Jan. 23 TBA
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Honors for lifetime achievements
Thomas P. Hughes, Ph.D., Mellon Professor Emeritus of History and Sociology of Science, has become the first historian and one of only a few Americans to receive an honorary doctorate from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Hughes received the honor along with three other recipients in a ceremony at Stockholm City Hall Nov. 10. The institute cited Hughes for his “groundbreaking contributions to the history of technology,” including noted works on the history of electricity and society and on major inventors.
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Lipika Goyal
A third of the way through our interview, Lipika Goyal (C’01) got a feeling of déjà vu. “I feel like I’ve said the same quotes in every publication that’s come out,” she said in response to a question about her summer research in India and Ghana. She’s been answering similar questions in one interview after another since her Rhodes Scholarship award was announced.