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Hughes Becomes First Historian to Receive an Honorary Doctorate from Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology
PHILADELPHIA Thomas P. Hughes, Ph.D., of the University of Pennsylvania has become the first historian and one of the few Americans to receive an honorary doctorate from the prestigious Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Hughes, Mellon Professor Emeritus in Penn Department of History and Sociology of Science, joined three other recipients at Stockholm City Hall on Nov. 10 in a lavish ceremony featuring men in white ties and tails, opera singers and cannons firing outside. Each of the four honorees received a silk top hat and a gold ring.
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Penn Senior Lipika Goyal Wins Rhodes Scholarship
PHILADELPHIA Lipika Goyal, a senior at the University of Pennsylvania, is among 32 American recipients of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarships for 2001, the Rhodes Scholarship Trust announced Saturday. She will spend two years studying at the University of Oxford in England, courtesy of the Rhodes Trust. Some 950 American students from 327 colleges and universities applied for this year Rhodes Scholarships, the oldest international study award available to Americans.
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Penn Law Professor Slated to Testify Before Special Session of the Florida Legislature
PHILADELPHIA Penn Law Professor Kim Lane Scheppele has been invited by lawyers for Vice President Al Gore to testify as an expert witness on the constitutionality of the Fla. Legislature picking its own slate of electors. The special session will convene on Mon. Dec.11, 2000 provided that the Florida Supreme Court doesn today turn down Gore bid for vote recounts in the state.
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Scientists Pinpoint a Protein Critical to the Function of the Ebola Virus, Offering Hope of Novel Drugs to Stop It
PHILADELPHIA Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine have identified a sequence of just four amino acids in a key viral protein that may be critical to the spread of the Ebola virus. Their findings, reported in the Dec. 5 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offer the promise of future treatments for Ebola outbreaks that now prove fatal for up to 90 percent of victims.
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University of Pennsylvania Professor Writes Book on the City in the 21st Century
PHILADELPHIA Planning for a New Century: the Regional Agenda by Jonathan Barnett is a new book that brings together leading thinkers in the fields of planning, urban design, education, welfare and housing to consider ways to solve the problems facing many communities.
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“Amritsar to Lahore: A Journey Across the India-Pakistan Border
Stephen Alter 232 pages, $24.95 Paper
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Heraldry lives! Students answer the call to arms
The ancient art of representing a family’s history and character through the use of symbols has been dusted off and put into the service of another history-making project — Penn’s new college house system. And the students who have designed these new “family crests” have shown inventiveness and creativity in designing coats of arms for the houses.
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Science medal
President Clinton announced last week that renowned organic chemist Ralph F. Hirschmann will receive a 2000 National Medal of Science, one of 12 to be presented at a White House dinner Dec. 1. “I feel that I’ve been very lucky in my career both at Merck and at the University of Pennsylvania in having extremely gifted collaborators without whom I would not have won this award. I’m just the lucky recipient,” said Hirschmann.
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Education and politics mix at forum
Put the best teachers in the worst schools. That was one of the proposals from a group of distinguished education experts and practitioners gathered at the Inn at Penn by the U.S. Department of Education and Penn’s Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) two days earlier this month.
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Stress busters
Exam time looms. The gigantic invisible weight descends… STRESS. So how do Penn students relieve the tension? Some are more inventive than others. There does seem to be one universal approach toward dealing with academic stress, though — if you can’t make the stress go away, you can at least forget about it for a little while! Tesnim Beg, College ’02 I like to go distance running for miles — it takes my mind off it. Asa Johnson, College ’01 I lift weights; when I’m tired I don’t think about exams.