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Middle Eastern blues
Southern blacks weren’t the only ones who sang the blues. From the 1920s to the 1950s, Turkish musicians blended classical and folk forms to produce songs about hardship and perseverance that have been called the “Middle Eastern blues.” No musician did it better than Udi Hrant Kenkulian, a blind Armenian master of the oud, a 12-string fretless lute. His fame further grew through numerous world tours, including stops in the United States, prior to his death in 1978.
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The road to Rhodes
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.
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Safer teens
A new Annenberg Public Policy Center institute will draw together scholars across campus engaged in research on reducing risky behavior in teens. The new Institute for Adolescent Risk Communication is backed by a $25 million endowment from the Annenberg Foundation, President Judith Rodin announced Dec. 13. The new center’s goal is to help communicators devise strategies for reducing high-risk behavior such as drug use, smoking, suicidal behavior and transmission of sexual diseases.
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Penn Law Professor Dissects The Law Behind The Holocaust
PHILADELPHIA -- Harry Reicher, a University of Pennsylvania adjunct law professor, will teach "Law and the Holocaust," a course which has been termed a world first. The class will be offered in the spring semester beginning Jan. 17th at the Penn Law School. "Law and the Holocaust" will be held on Wednesday evenings from 4:50 to 7:50 p.m. Members of the media are invited to attend a class by prior arrangement with Reicher.
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Penn Sociologist Leads African Census Analysis Conference In Senegal
PHILADELPHIIA -- Tukufu Zuberi, a University of Pennsylvania sociology professor, will lead a Jan. 15-17 conference in Dakar, Senegal, addressing the development and use of African census data to understand social changes in the continent. The gathering will bring together African scholars, officials from various African census bureaus and policy makers from different African nations to share census findings and to plan future research activities. Representatives from more than 20 African nations will attend.
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Recognizing Current Limitations, Scientists Begin Quests For A New Approach To Imaging Brain Cells' Activity
PHILADELPHIA Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are aiming to develop a novel imaging system that can capture snapshots of activity across large swaths of individual brain cells. Their interdisciplinary approach, supported by a new five-year, $1 million grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, could be a boon for neuroscientists hampered by the imperfect techniques now available for viewing the microscopic changes wrought neuron by neuron as the brain works.
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Head Start Partners With Penn's Graduate School of Education to Understand School Readiness
PHILADELPHIA Two professors at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education will study how early learning behaviors contribute to school readiness. In partnership with Head Start, Paul McDermott and John Fantuzzo will research learning behaviors as indicators of school success for K-12 students. Their research, titled "Learning-in-Time and Teaching-to-Learn," is supported by a multi-year grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Computer Security Experts Say FBI's Internet Surveillance System Raises Concerns Over Privacy and Functionality
PHILADELPHIA An Internet wiretapping system developed by the FBI raises serious privacy and functionality concerns despite a favorable outside review, a group of prominent computer security experts says in a report to the U.S. Department of Justice. The group, which includes some of the top names in Internet security, says that previous analyses have overlooked potential legal and operational flaws with the FBI "Carnivore" system. Carnivore monitors Internet traffic, such as e-mail sent or received by suspected criminals or terrorists.
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$27.5 Million Endowment from Annenberg Foundation to Fund Institute on Adolescent Risk at Penn's Annenberg Public Policy Center
PHILADELPHIA -- A $25 million endowment from the Annenberg Foundation of St. Davids, Pa., will be used to establish a new Institute for Adolescent Risk Communication at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center, according to an announcement today by Penn President Judith Rodin.
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In First Demonstrations of 'Tele-Immersion', Participants Many Miles Apart Feel as If They're Sitting in the Same Room
PHILADELPHIA By marrying telecommunications and technology similar to that used in 3D movies, computer scientists have orchestrated a session where participants sitting in different states feel as if theye chatting in the same room. This first successful demonstration of this technique, known as "tele-immersion," was accomplished by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Brown University and Advanced Network and Services, a non-profit firm in Armonk, N.Y.