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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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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.
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New Leadership Team Named for The University of Pennsylvania Health System
PHILADELPHIA --- A new leadership team has been named for the University of Pennsylvania Health System, according to an announcement today (Feb. 17) by University President Judith Rodin. She said that Peter G. Traber, M.D., chair of the department of medicine, has agreed to become the interim dean of the School of Medicine and CEO of the Medical Center and the Health System until "...we undertake a thorough, formal search for permanent leadership."
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“Being a dean is like herding a group of cats.”
Stephen J. Kobrin, William H. Wurster Professor of Multinational Management, on the challenges of leading an academic faculty (The Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb. 9)
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“People started calling me with their problems ... and they said, Well, I heard you started some group. What can you do for me?”
Kelly Kozik is a gregarious bundle of energy — “I can talk forever,” she said. And she did, about her latest effort to help others, the Adult Student Network [ASN], a virtual support group for working people enrolled in Penn’s part-time and evening degree programs. The ASN had its first formal organizational meeting Jan. 18. On the group’s Web site, members can have open discussions of issues of concern to adult students and get private advice.
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Robert Barchi
Robert Barchi, M.D., Ph.D., hadn’t expected to hit the ground running when he became provost of the University one year ago this month. But that’s what happened when the issue of alcohol abuse on campus was thrust into his lap in the wake of the death of a Penn alumnus at a fraternity party.
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Gene therapy sparks sharp exchange
In what turned into a highly emotional debate involving audience members as well as scheduled speakers, the Penn Humanities Forum hosted Arthur Caplan, Ph.D., director of Penn’s Center for Bioethics, and Stephen Eck, M.D., Ph.D., of the Institute for Human Gene Therapy (IHGT) Feb. 8.