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Marathon man
“I wanna be Mr. Marathoner,” Nathaniel Glasser (C’01) proclaimed, a smile spreading across his face. “Or at least fast enough to turn in good times.” The Rockford, Ill., native seems to “collect marathons” like other people collect baseball cards or coins. Having already run in the Philadelphia and New York City marathons, he is running in the April 17 Boston Marathon — his “biggest dream.” Oh, and he wants to run the Chicago marathon when he gets around to it, too.
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“Fire in My Bones: Transcendence and the Holy Spirit in African American Gospel”
Glenn Hinson 416 pages, $24.95 paper The soul is the domain not of body or mind, but of spirit, according to the African American take on the gospel. And when the Holy Spirit touches spirit, the soul rejoices in an epiphany of truth and knowledge.
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India speaks U.S. business language
Two oceans, a continent and 7,800 miles separate Philadelphia and Bombay. Yet in some ways, the two cities might as well be as close as Philadelphia and New York. The information-technology revolution has had that effect on global commerce and industry. For instance, said Indian journalist Pradipta Bagchi, “If you pick up the phone to call your software company’s help desk, you may think you’re talking to someone in the United States. But the voice on the other end may be in India.”
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Nobel laureate to speak
Irish poet Seamus Heaney, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, will deliver the main address at Penn’s 244th Commencement ceremony on May 22. His Nobel Prize citation praised his “works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past.” Heaney is considered one of the titans of contemporary poetry and modern Irish literature. His poems explore the linguistic heritage of the English language, the human condition, the star-crossed history of his native land and his own journey though life.
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Advocates point moral compass
With the student protesters gone from President Rodin’s office, the leading advocate for the human rights of sweatshop employees, Charles Kernaghan, is no persona non grata.
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Hate-crime laws, pro and con
Hate crime laws were the topic of discussion at a Law School forum held March 30 as part of Penn’s annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Awareness Days. We asked Professor of Communications Larry Gross for his views on the subject. Hate crimes laws rest on the notion that there are criminal acts whose victims are entire communities or groups of people, not just the specific individual who is the target of a particular act, and that these acts are aimed at terrorizing or intimidating into silence entire groups of people.
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Power to the people
Instead of a chicken in every pot, Raymond Gorte envisions a fuel cell in every home. Gorte, Carl V.S. Patterson Professor and chair of Chemical Engineering, is part of a team that has developed a power source that uses natural gas (methane) to produce electricity in a way that has the potential to be cleaner and cheaper than existing methods. Other team members are John Vohs, associate dean for undergraduate education in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and professor of chemical engineering, and postdoctoral associate Seungdoo Park.
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What’s past is present
Talk about irony. The featured artist on today’s “World Cafe” is Ian Anderson, the front man for Jethro Tull, which had a mid-’70s hit album called “Living in the Past.” Then, on April 18, along comes Eric Anderson (no relation), whose latest album asserts “You Can’t Relive the Past.” Who’s right? Who cares? They’re both worth a listen. Thursday, April 6 Jethro Tull front man Ian Anderson performs music from his solo album “The Secret Language of Birds”
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New deputy dean for SEAS
Vijay Kumar, Ph.D., professor of mechanical engineering and director of the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory, has been named Deputy Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. As the first holder of the title, Kumar will oversee SEAS’ research agenda, including the advancement of research throughout the school and the pursuit of funding opportunities from both the nonprofit and corporate sectors.
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Ian McHarg
At “79, going on 80,” Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning Emeritus Ian McHarg, M.L.A., M.C.P., has just completed his first book of poems, “Songs to the Stars,” to be published at the end of the month. He’d never written poetry before, but McHarg, who speaks with a Scottish brogue and knows how to tell a good story, said someone talked him into it. Another project someone talked him into is his 1967 seminal book, “Design With Nature,” in which he introduced environmental concerns to landscape architecture.