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Enter the (Year of the) Dragon
You’re guaranteed to have a bang-up time at the University of Pennsylvania Museum’s 19th annual Chinese New Year Celebration Feb. 5.
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New NIH center
The National Institutes of Health awarded a $6.5 million grant to the Medical Center to establish a center to improve treatment of autoimmune diseases. Mohamad Rostami, M.D., Ph.D., professor of neurology and medicine, will be the director of the new Penn Center of Excellence for Autoimmune Disease, one of three NIH Centers of Excellence for auto-immune diseases in the country.
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The myth of the closed university
An elderly man fell at 36th Street and Walnut. The day was Jan. 25, the day snow shut down the University. The weather nearly shut down the old man as well. After struggling across Walnut, he could go no further. He waved for help. Nobody stopped. But then along came Armenio Silva, in his snow plow. The old man knocked desperately at his window. Heigh ho, Silva to the rescue. He called 911. When snow traps some folks at home baking cookies, a hardy group of workers keeps the campus running.
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“What comes to mind is Elsie the cow. One of the great icons of history no longer exists.”
Joseph Turow, professor of communication, on how some food companies have come to de-emphasize where the products they sell come from. Borden officials say Elsie’s still around. (The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan. 19)
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“I think the experience here at Penn plants a seed of what college life could be.”
If Teresa Maddox and Shamara Davis become novelists or literary critics someday, they’ll have Stephanie Perkins-Lane to thank. Okay, that may be stretching it a bit. But in her role as a Penn VIPS mentor, Perkins-Lane is exposing the two Sulzberger Middle School students to both the worlds of work and academic life while providing them with emotional support and encouragement.
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“Greater Perfections: The Practice of Garden Theory”
John Dixon Hunt 288 pages, 138 black-and-white illustrations, $35 cloth Gardening is usually thought of as a practical activity, but a new book by John Dixon Hunt, professor of landscape architecture and chair of the department of landscape architecture and regional planning, explores the conceptual basis of garden art. The book takes a large-scale view of the garden in human culture and treats the garden as the epitome of place-making — or what is nowadays termed landscape architecture.
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Not just freaks and geeks and guys
Think of the word “scientist” and the word “mad” seems to pop up unbidden onto the mental viewing screen. Dr. Frankenstein. Dr. Strangelove. Dr. Evil. That’s exactly the image of scientists that a new program for middle school girls wants to combat. “The stereotype of wild-haired, wild-eyed people doing science is just that — a stereotype,” said Christine Massey, director of Pennlincs, an educational outreach program of the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science. “Lots of interesting people all over the world do science, not just socially inept nerds.”
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Praise the Lord and the folks
For all his earthly and heavenly connections, the Rev. William H. Gray III, former U.S. congressman from Philadelphia and now president and chief executive officer of the United Negro College Fund, was stuck in the air. His transportation connections failed him on the evening of the region’s first snowfall.
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A child caught in a cultural war
On the issue of the international custody flap over 6-year-old Cuban Elian Gonzalez, who was rescued from waters off the coast of Florida when the boat smuggling him and his mother to the U.S. capsized, we asked two professors with an interest in custody issues to comment.
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Our Oscar picks
It appears that Oscar fever hasn’t spread that widely across the campus this year: One of our reporters on Locust Walk reports that most of the students had no idea who deserved Oscars. But we did manage to find enough movie buffs with Academy Awards predictions to spot a couple of favorites: “American Beauty” for Best Picture and Matt Damon (“The Talented Mr. Ripley”) for Best Actor.