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Promise for rent
A new partnership to preserve and develop moderate-cost rental housing in the University City area was announced earlier this month. At an Oct. 12 gathering to announce the partnership, representatives from local universities and the worlds of finance, real estate and politics filled a grassy corner of Clark Park at 43rd and Baltimore as area farmers set up their wares nearby.
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Balkan Dawn
The popular uprising and takeover of the Parliament building in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, on Oct. 5 is one of the most dramatic victories for law and democracy in recent European history. To understand why, it is useful to review some of the developments in the Balkans that led to this event.
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“You’re nervous at first and then you start singing. And the music just takes you away.”
Audrey Smith-Bey’s father didn’t want her to grow up to be a professional singer. Fortunately, she ignored her father’s advice. While it’s not her main line of work, Smith-Bey has made a name for herself locally as a jazz vocalist. And she’s become a part of the campus musical scene, performing at several Penn and Penn-sponsored events, often accompanied by Assistant Professor of Music Guthrie Ramsey.
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Pan Asian house director named
Karen Su, Ph.D., has been named director of the University’s newly-created Pan Asian-American Community House (PAACH). Formed in response to the growing Asian presence on Penn’s campus, PAACH will serve as a resource center for the Penn community concerning Asian-American issues and the role that Asian-Americans have played in the history and culture of America.
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Penn, Drexel Scientists to Lead State's $10.5 Million Push to Reinvent the Delaware Valley as 'Nanotech Valley'
PHILADELPHIA The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has awarded a $10.5 million grant that aims to establish the Philadelphia region as a high-tech hotbed of nanotechnology an atom-by-atom approach to building products that many scientists believe has the potential to inspire a technological revolution. The grant, from the Pennsylvania Technology Investment Authority (PTIA), establishes a Regional Nanotechnology Center with the goal of remaking the Delaware Valley as "Nanotech Valley."
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Alan MacDiarmid
Success, the old saw goes, has many fathers. Alan MacDiarmid has been careful to acknowledge all of them whenever he talks about his latest achievement. And since winning the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Oct. 11, MacDiarmid, the Blanchard Professor of Chemistry, has praised them all many times over: at a same-day press conference for the local media, at receptions in his honor thrown by his department and by President Judith Rodin, in numerous interviews, including this one with the Current.
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Breast center simplifies a trying experience
The new Rena Rowan Breast Center, one of only a handful of breast cancer centers in the country, will open to patients in November. But some at Penn aren’t waiting until then to lend a helping hand. The sororities of the Panhellenic Association will host the Rena Rowan Ribbon Run Saturday, Oct. 29 (check-in at 9 a.m. outside Harnwell College House), to raise money for the center.
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Surprise! Said sticks to style
Prize-winning author, critic, professor and leading public intellectual Edward Said drew a standing-room-only crowd when he addressed his Houston Hall audience two weeks ago. But some attendees didn’t get quite what they expected.
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Pick the prez
It is being called the closest presidential race in recent history, but somehow our results came back overwhelmingly one-sided. When it comes to voicing their opinions on the next president, Penn students are not shy. Kevin Rodin, College ’01 I will vote for Gore, mostly because I don’t like Bush. He’s not smart enough to be president.
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Movies? There aren't even newspapers.
A small fishing village in Alaska was not part of Regina Oliver’s (Nu’98,GNu’99) plan when she graduated as a family nurse practitioner from the School of Nursing. But when the job offer came in, she was game. In September, the 44-year-old and her dog, Crissy, headed north to work with another nurse practitioner and three community health aids. A week after her arrival in September, she began writing us about her experiences via e-mail and a hand-written note. — LR