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External overseers named
A committee of distinguished research scientists from across the country was appointed by President Judith Rodin to review the oversight and monitoring of clinical trials at the Institute for Human Gene Therapy (IHGT) at the Medical Center.
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Awkward gracefully strolls down memory lane
Blame it on Mom. On second thought, give Mom the credit. It may be reductionist to put it this way, but if it were not for his mother, Michael Awkward (Gr’86, Hon’97) might not have become a feminist literary scholar.
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Grownups should know better
The recent wave of shootings at high schools across the nation, it appears, has claimed more innocent victims: freedom of thought, the right to privacy — and an 11th-grader at Friends Central School. The 11th-grader was expelled after Friends Central administrators received a transcript of a private e-mail exchange with a friend in which he argued that we should “kill off the stupid and crazy people.”
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Caveman research serves justice
How did a guy who studies Neanderthals for a living end up helping to exonerate a 15-year-old wrongly accused of rape? Alan Mann, a professor of anthropology and the curator of the physical anthropology collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum, starts from the beginning.
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New blues and Brits
A new release from bluesman Joe Louis Walker and a debut from English singer-songwriter Leona Naess are among the highlights on “The World Cafe” in the coming weeks. But first, host David Dye has to return from Park City, Utah. Thursday, Feb. 17 David Dye continues with reports from the Sundance Music and Film Festival
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“Getting Work: Philadelphia, 1840-1950”
Walter Licht 336 pages, $19.95 paper
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President Clinton to Speak at The University of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA --President Clinton will deliver an address on "The New Economy" at the inaugural program of the University of Pennsylvania's Granoff Forum on Thursday, February 24, 2000 at 3 p.m. in Irvine Auditorium, 34th & Spruce streets on Penn's campus.Admission to the event is by invitation only.
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Odyssey across cyberspace
Joseph Farrell, professor of classical studies and the School of Arts and Sciences’ associate dean for graduate studies, might not describe the creation of his two computer-generated babies in mythic terms. Yet colleagues say that Farrell (http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~jfarrell/) is a pioneer on an odyssey exploring the use of computer technology in the study of ancient texts.
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Students dip toes in art experience
One look at the bright bean-bag chairs — each about the size of a bed — and Thomas Lahousse, an exchange student from France, had them all figured out. “Red is birth and yellow is the beginning of life, always bright,” he said, referring to the chairs’ colors. “Then you have a woman. It’s not so nice anymore. That’s blue.”
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Real world, real rewards
“This is a class about the stuff they don’t teach you in school,” Professor Steven Kimbrough announced on the first day of OPIM 399, Business Application and Development. Indeed, the operations and information management course contains a lot of things that most courses don’t have: backing from a major corporation, free computer software and thousands of dollars in prize money, waiting, like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, for the students who create the best business software systems.