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Good work rewarded
Put on another pot of coffee, take a deep breath of the autumn air and get your nose to the grindstone. If you think no one’s going to notice whether you work through your lunch hour to meet that deadline or that you strive for that extra yard, think again. A new program, Models of Excellence, supported by Human Resources’ Quality of Worklife Programs, will give cash rewards to individual employees and teams of employees who inspire others with their hard work, their ability to get things done and their ability to increase efficiency where they work.
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Nobel for alum
The Royal Swedish Academy of the Sciences has chosen Penn alumnus Ahmed Zewail (Gr’74) as recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Zewail, a native of Egypt who maintains both American and Egyptian citizenship, is being recognized for his studies of the step-by-step processes of chemical reactions. Chemistry Professor Robin Hochstrasser, under whom Zewail studied at Penn, said that Zewail’s work gives an “understanding of how these reactions work.”
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First lessons
They came full of anticipation and excitement, not knowing what to expect from college life. But our respondents from the Class of 2003 have already learned plenty in the two months they’ve been on campus. Most of it, though, isn’t what their professors have told them. Some have found the local cuisine difficult to swallow. Others had to adjust to the climate and the demands of course work. And then there were those who seized the opportunity to meet new friends and expand their horizons.
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Roller girl: A champion takes on the world — again
“I can do anything in a car,” proclaimed Patricia Houle (SEAS’01) with an air of complete confidence. “I’ve done so much homework on the road. It’s all about time management. And I refuse to get less than eight hours of sleep a night.” An impressive feat for the average student? Of course. And an even more impressive feat for someone who spends a great deal of time practicing for national and international roller skating competitions.
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A headline-grabbing architect comes to Penn
To an overflowing auditorium in Meyerson Hall, controversial architect Daniel Libeskind, the new Paul Philipe Cret Professor of Architecture, delivered a lecture Oct. 12 about two new museum projects he has in the works.
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Shake, rattle and roll
Annenberg Professor of Music Emeritus George Crumb rehearsing for the moment when he shook the stage with his maracas, cymbals, gourd, washtub and other percussive surprises at the premiere of his newest work, ÒMundus Canis.Ó The concert was a celebration of his 70th birthday at the Curtis Institute of Music Oct. 12. ÒMundus CanisÓ featured distinguished guitarist David Starobin and Crumb himself on percussion.
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Buildings bloom in building boom
Be careful where you walk these days, lest you bump into a backhoe. Yesterday’s empty lot is now sprouting bricks. And it seems that every time you sneeze, there’s a groundbreaking. In case you haven’t noticed it yet, the campus is in the middle of the biggest building boom since the 1960s. And like the previous binge, this one will also produce a dramatically different Penn.
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Child welfare’s dirty secret
On an early June morning, an 8-month-old girl was taken to a Florida emergency room, where she died four hours later. Investigators found the baby’s family had been the focus of nine child abuse reports in the past four years. The mother was charged with beating the baby to death. At no time had the baby or her four siblings been removed from the home, nor had anyone considered terminating the mother’s parental rights.
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Researcher “reverse engineers” the mind
Never mind how the mind works. For many of the audience members shoehorned into 17 Logan Hall, the more pressing question was whether the sound system worked on Oct. 20, when Stephen Pinker, director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT, explained to the crowd “How the Mind Works.”
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Little flies suggest big cures
For lonely night owls married to early birds, a new day may be about to dawn. Some new basic research conducted at the Medical Center on fruit flies may one day help scientists to reset the internal clocks of humans.