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A Grammy and four Fulbrights
George Crumb, D.M.A., Annenberg Professor Emeritus of the Humanities, won a Grammy in February for Best Classical Contemporary Composition for his piece “Star Child,” on his “70th Birthday Album” (Bridge Records). Crumb won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1968, and his piece was recorded under the baton of Thomas Conlin by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Warsaw Philharmonic Chorus with soloists including Joseph Alessi on trombone and Susan Narucki, soprano.
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Funny stuff of the universe
Max Tegmark, who recently helped quantify the universe’s list of ingredients, came to his field by accident. “My interest in cosmology is the product of a failed relationship,” said the assistant professor of physics and astronomy. “She was doing physics and I was doing econ, and all her books looked much more interesting than mine.” Today, Tegmark is contributing research and discoveries to the sorts of books that captured his heart as an undergraduate in his native Sweden. His latest work gives us the most precise measurements of what the universe is made of.
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U.S. Senator John S. McCain To Speak At University of Pennsylvania Commencement
PHILADELPHIA -- John S. McCain, U.S. Senator from Arizona and recent presidential candidate, will deliver the Commencement address at the 245th Commencement ceremony of the University of Pennsylvania on Monday, May 21. The ceremony will begin at 9:30 a.m. at Franklin Field, 33rd and South streets. Approximately 6,000 degrees will be conferred.
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Michael A. Fitts
For Law School Dean Michael A. Fitts, returning to the city of his birth and to Penn was a process of taking up the family business. His grandfather was dean of Wharton in the 1930s, and his father chaired the surgery department at the Medical School in the ’70s. As Fitts finishes up his first year in the job, he said he is loving every minute of it.
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Reporters examine endless postelection
The nation may have waited 36 days in the fall for results of the presidential election, but the crowd eager to hear two New York Times reporters reflect on postelection coverage waited not at all for the event, which began promptly at 4 p.m. Feb. 28 in Houston Hall. Times Metro Reporter Somini Sengupta told about life as low woman on the totem pole for the Times team in Florida, speaking to the 250 people packed into Bodek Lounge for the event sponsored by the Times and the Provost’s Spotlight Series.
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Tuskegee Airmen flew in the face of bigotry
For most white Americans, World War II was a battle against Nazism and fascism. But for pilot Eugene J. Richardson Jr., maintenance crew chief Eddie Moore and their comrades in the all-black 99th Fighter Squadron — the Tuskegee Airmen — it was also a bitter fight against racism. So it was perhaps no surprise that Richardson and Moore drew a racially mixed crowd — about 50 in all — of both civilians and fellow veterans when they brought their living tribute to the 99th and its legacy to campus Feb. 28.
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The envelope, please
We’re trying to get over our depression that “Ghost Dog” didn’t get an Oscar nomination for anything. Here’s what the campus crowd picked as winners. Jennifer Landsidle, College ’01 “I thought ‘Traffic’ was a very accurate portrayal of the drug world, and I’m obsessed with Benicio Del Toro as the supporting actor.”
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“We try to utilize every moment we have to the max, because everything is Rush! Go! Fast!”
The speed demons of emergency medical transport are in a funk. The PennSTAR 2 medevac flight crew has rushed to Lakewood, N.J., to transfer a critically ill patient to Presbyterian Medical Center, only to find that the attending physician insisted the man have dialysis first. So now the three crew members have to cool their heels for 2 1/2 hours, keeping them from responding to an accident in Lower Merion. Since I’m following them around on this day, I’m stuck there too.
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Scientists Receive $3 Million to Develop Biologically-based Artificial Vision Systems
PHILADELPHIA A team of researchers from three universities, led by a University of Pennsylvania bioengineer, has won a $3 million grant for work toward artificial-vision technologies that might detect patterns as robustly as the human brain. The work could lead to satellite-based means of detecting environmental destruction, automated systems to detect abnormalities in mammograms and other medical images and computerized approaches to other tasks now possible only through the discretion of the human eye.
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University of Pennsylvania Study Finds Evidence Of Telephone-Based Discrimination in Housing Rentals
PHILADELPHIA Voice mail has become a way for some housing rental agents to discriminate on the basis of race, class and gender. A just released University of Pennsylvania study offers strong new evidence for the existence of telephone-based discrimination in the rental housing market and concludes that some rental agents discriminate by using linguistic cues to screen callers over the phone. The study, conducted in Philadelphia and its suburbs by Penn sociologist Douglas Massey, postdoctoral fellow Garvey Lundy and undergraduate students, concluded that: