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So you want your kid to get into college?
If your lifelong dream has been to get your children into Penn or Swarthmore, or Villanova, or Penn State, or the College of New Jersey or any college the Undergraduate Admissions Office would like to help you out.
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Go play — and learn — in the garden
The gardens and arboretums of the Philadelphia-Wilmington region are more than landscapes of beauty. Theyre fun and educational, too. And a new guide for families is designed to help parents and children learn about nature while exploring the regions gardens.
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James S. Riepe Elected Chairman of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA --- James S. Riepe, vice chairman of T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., a Baltimore-based investment management company, will become chairman of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, effective June 18, 1999, according to an announcement by P. Roy Vagelos, M.D., retired chairman and CEO of Merck & Co., Inc., who has been chairman of the Penn trustees since 1994 and a trustee since 1988. Mr. Riepe (W'65, WG'67) is a graduate of The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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New Leadership and a New Affiliation for Penn's Fels Center of Government
PHILADELPHIA - Samuel H. Preston, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, has named leading criminologist Lawrence W. Sherman as the new Director of the Fels Center of Government. Sherman will also be appointed the Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations in the Department of Sociology. The Fels Center, which will now become part of the School of Arts and Sciences, was previously associated with Penn's Graduate School of Fine Arts.
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Gould Named New Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA --- Following an international search, Claudia Gould, Executive Director of Artists Space in New York City, has been named Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, effective Sept. 7, 1999.
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Awards to young researchers
I. Joseph Kroll, Ph.D., has won an Outstanding Junior Investigator award - one of about three per year in high energy physics - from the U.S. Department of Energy. The $300,000 award will be spread over several years. Kroll's research is in experimental high energy particle physics - specifically B hadrons - examining data from proton-antiproton collisions produced at Fermilab in Batavia, Ill.
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The hombre is a citizen
Until I joined the U.S. Navy, I never confronted what it means to be a Puerto Rican and an American citizen. Having grown up in Puerto Rico, it was an everyday reality that I never had to question. My father, along with many remarkable school teachers, taught me to appreciate my Puerto Rican culture, history and national identity. I also learned the names of all the American presidents and the names of all the states and their capitals. For 50 minutes a day, I studied English.
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Use heart, head, says Morial
In a short speech that mixed wit with seriousness, New Orleans Mayor Marc H. Morial (C'80) marveled at the ways in which the world has changed over time and urged his fellow Penn grads to use their hearts as well as their minds to shape the future. Morial was the keynote speaker at the College of Arts and Sciences' graduation ceremony May 16 in Franklin Field.
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Fitness and fun for you - and your kids
Here's a chance to combine exercise and fun this summer - the Village Volleyball series in front of Harrison College House, 39th and Irving streets, Hamilton Village. From 3 to 6 p.m. every Tuesday through July 27, you can join your Penn colleagues for free volleyball games (nets and balls provided) and surprise contests such as "All the Slush You Can Drink," "Spelling Bee," and "Memorize Pi to the 50th Decimal." All you need to bring besides yourself is your PennCard. For more information e-mail vross@ sas.upenn.edu or call 573-9054.
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Roy Vagelos
Since it's used as a case study in a Wharton School business-ethics course, you could say that the story of how Merck & Co. decided to just give away a valuable new drug is a textbook example of routine corporate social responsibility. In fact, though, it isn't. As far as Roy Vagelos (C'50) knows, no other pharmaceutical manufacturer has even attempted to duplicate what Merck did with Mectizan, a drug that proved effective in killing the parasite that causes river blindness, a chronic illness in much of sub-Saharan Africa.