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Night moves
When a night at the library just doesn’t do it anymore, and sitting on the couch watching “Friends” has lost its sparkle, it’s time to hit the town. Whether searching for the hottest up-and-coming nightspot or returning to a timeless classic, Penn students do actually know that there is a vibrant city waiting on the other side of the Schuylkill. So where do they go? John Buchanan, College ’01 El Mariachi is fun — it’s a different kind of place, different than a typical nightclub, with its Latin flair.
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Fernando C. N. Pereira Named Rachleff Professor and Chair of Computer and Information Science at Penn
PHILADELPHIA Fernando C.N. Pereira, Ph.D., has been named Andrew and Debra Rachleff Professor and chair of the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, effective July 1, 2001.
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Another Packard
Leif Finkel, Ph.D., professor of bioengineering, has received a $1 million award from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The award will support an interdisciplinary project including Penn faculty from bioengineering, neuroscience and physics. Co-principal investigators are Kwabena Boahen, Institute for Medicine and Engineering (IME) and assistant professor of bioengineering; Diego Contreras and Brian Salzberg, neuroscience; and Arjun Yodh, IME and professor of physics. Supporting scientists are George Gerstein and Larry Palmer from neuroscience.
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One world, one orchestra
What does it sound like when Syrians and Israelis, Serbs and Croats sit down together and play? It sounds marvelous. And it just might sound like hope.
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Big bucks from NCI
The University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center (UPCC) was awarded $26 million from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) — the largest National Institutes of Health grant ever received by Penn. The five-year Core Grant is 62 percent larger than last year’s award to the UPCC, which is dedicated to cancer research, control and prevention.
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Pols have a poverty of ideas
Promises, promises. The candidates hand them out with increasing frequency as Election Day approaches. But some members of the electorate have received no promises this year. In a booming economy, poverty in America remains overlooked by many.
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Smells like schizophrenia
To get a better understanding of the origins and causes of schizophrenia, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Bruce Turetsky and colleagues in the School of Medicine followed their noses and sniffed out some intriguing information. Building on research that is producing clues about how schizophrenia affects the brain, Turetsky used a smell test developed at Penn to study how well schizophrenics could identify scents and objects based on their smell.
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New stuff from old faves
Veteran blues-rocker Joe Cocker pays a call on “The World Cafe” Oct. 27 to promote his new release “No Ordinary World,” and Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks also strut new stuff during these next two weeks. Here’s the full schedule. Thursday, Oct. 26 Whiskeytown front man Ryan Adams drops by the Cafe studios for an interview and performance featuring music from his debut solo album, “Heartbreaker”
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"An Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign Against the Peoples of Acadia"
Geoffrey Plank 256 pages, 17 black-and-white illustrations, $29.95 cloth Through much of the 18th century, the former French colony of Acadia — permanently renamed Nova Scotia by the British when they began an ambitious occupation of the territory in 1710 — experienced bitter struggles for sovereignty.
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New research chief builds a community
Think a Kelly Writers House for research. A central place where undergrads from every school can find advice on how to get involved in the creation of new knowledge — research. It’s the new Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships (CURF), under the directorship of A rt Casciato. “We picked him because he’s wonderful,” said Deputy Provost Peter Conn. Shortly after the appointment last month, Casciato, 50, could barely contain himself about his newest job.