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New VP for Finance and Treasurer of the University
Craig Carnaroli (W’85) has been named Vice President for Finance and Treasurer of the University. As Vice President for Finance and Treasurer, Carnaroli oversees the offices of the Comptroller, Treasurer, Investments, Student Financial Services, Risk Management, Research Services and Acquisition Services.
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Ann Burgess
Bespectacled and dressed in a conservative suit, as you might expect of the sensible Yankee that she is, Ann Burgess, the van Ameringen Professor of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, doesn’t look like someone who has probed the depths of the criminal mind. You would never guess that this level-headed middle-aged woman has worked with the FBI, and has been on the scene of horrific crimes; she’s dealt with the distraught victims of rapes and sexual assaults; and she’s struggled to understand why criminals do what they do.
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Bigwig writers to share life and work
Grace Paley, Robert Creeley and John Edgar Wideman will come to campus this semester as part of the Kelly Writers House Fellows project. The focus of their visit will be an undergraduate seminar, Contemporary American Writing, taught by Al Filreis, Class of 1942 Professor of English and faculty director of Writers House. “We will be reading the work of the writers, and then students will have a two-day experience with the writers,” Filreis explained.
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The survivors come out to study
It’s a Thursday afternoon on the first full week of 2000, and the level of activity on campus, like the temperature, is low. Half the food trucks are taking an extended vacation, and there are no lines at those that remain. And there are few people on the walkways. Where is everybody? Many of those who are still around, it seems, are in the library.
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Street’s legacy depends on bold moves
Most American cities are on greased skids, and what distinguishes one from the other is the angle of descent. Despite the comeback of their downtowns, the first recession will reveal just how fragile their recoveries have been. Philadelphia is no exception, and Ed Rendell knew it well. Our former mayor believed he inherited a patient suffering from a gunshot and cancer, and although the wound was successfully healed, the patient is still dying of cancer.
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Retail raves and requests
The campus retail mix is intended to provide students with stores they like and want. Has it succeeded? Most of you say yes. But that doesn’t mean everything is perfect. Several students identified stores they’d still like to see — and a couple of freshmen were surprised when our reporter told them the stores they wanted, like Foot Locker and Burger King, used to be on campus. Aric Chang, Wharton ’01 “I’d like to see a toy store on campus. Maybe FAO Schwarz.”
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Undergrad digs dinosaur bones
It’s not too often that you come across someone who wanted to be a paleontologist when he was 5 years old. In fact, most 5-year-olds probably couldn’t even spell paleontologist. But Jason Downs (C’00) could. And 16 years after he announced his lofty career plans to his first-grade teacher, Downs is still impressing his instructors. So much so, in fact, that Downs’ mentor, Biology Professor Neil Shubin, invited him to join a Chinese-American fossil expedition to the Gobi Desert last summer.
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NIH gives Grossman a Javits; McHarg wins Japan Prize
Robert I. Grossman, M.D., Chief of Neuroradiology and Professor of Radiology, Neurosurgery and Neurology at the Medical Center, has been awarded the Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award by the National Institutes of health. The nearly $4 million award will support Grossman’s ongoing research on neurological disorders in multiple sclerosis patients, enabling him “to study a cohort of patients over a long period of time.” Grossman is one of only 10 Javits Award recipients this year.
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Hip-hop heritage
Hip-hop may have evolved from the party music of young African Americans in the South Bronx, but its roots go all the way back to Africa. And now one of Philadelphia’s most talented hip-hop dance ensembles has chronicled its history.
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Human testing
A faculty committee to review all aspects of research using human subjects at Penn was formed Friday. The 10-member group plans to address risks that research may pose and “to protect volunteers in the clinical trials we conduct,” President Judith Rodin stated. Provost Robert L. Barchi, M.D., Ph.D., will chair the committee.