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Goodbye, Columbus winners
Seniors Joshua S. Brogadir (left) and Roshini Thayaparan are among 14 outstanding college seniors chosen to accompany award-winning U.S. youngsters on the Young Columbus Adventure to England and Wales, April 7-15. Thayaparan, a chemistry and urban studies major, and Brogadir, an anthropology and Latin American Studies major, were selected by Parade magazine for the all-expenses-paid trip. The youngsters they will accompany are newspaper carriers or have demonstrated excellence in Newspaper in Education programs.
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Seven win NSF Early Career Development Awards
Rajeev Alur Suresh G. Ananthasuresh Noah Gans Photo by Todd Murray Lorin Hitt
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"I've always had a love of history and geography - you can't be in the industry without that."
DiNardo delights in her own magnificent cake, brought in for the office to share. Photo by Candace diCarlo
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Increase in Total Student Charges, Undergraduate Tuition Lowest in Three Decades at the University of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA - Total student charges at the University of Pennsylvania will increase 3.7 percent for the 1999-2000 academic year, the lowest percentage increase in more than three decades, according to an announcement today (March 18) by President Judith Rodin. She said that tuition and fees for undergraduate students will increase 4.2 percent, from $23,254 to $24,230; average room and board will increase 2.2 percent, from $7,206 to $7,362. Total student charges will increase 3.7 percent, from $30,460 to $31,592.
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Farber forecasts
Internet godfather David Farber, the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication Systems, told a full Alumni Hall in the Towne Building on Feb. 24 that universities in the information age must be prepared for technology-aided advances such as multi-institutional seminars, international rump sessions among students, and key lectures from afar. Farber is the first academic from the University to speak to the School of Engineering and Applied Science's Technology, Business and Government Distinguished Lecture series this year.
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Foal recovery
British veterinarian Nuala Summerfield, M.R.C.V.S., a Thouron scholar at the New Bolton Center, administers an injection to "Barbie," a five-day-old foal who suffered from a lack of oxygen during birth, as Jon Palmer, V.M.D., associate professor of medicine in the School of Veterinary Medicine, looks on. Thanks to the supportive care available at Penn's large-animal hospital, Barbie has an 85 percent chance of a full recovery. Photo by Daniel R. Burke
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Oscar grabbers
Do people on Penn's campus have any strong opinions about film, or has the relentless Oscar publicity machine ground them into submission? Our reporter on Locust Walk, Walnut Street and the internet found few exceptions to the face-off between "Shakespeare in Love," "Saving Private Ryan" and "Life is Beautiful." Two of the non-Academy nominated answers were throwbacks to the glorious teen struggle films of the '80s, when pimples and boys with earrings were the biggest problems a movie had to present.
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Sociologist figures out Africa
On the third floor of the McNeil Building, a group of African scholars share cubicles and a mass of raw data that offers an unprecedented view of an entire continent. It is in this room where the African Census Analysis Project, directed by Associate Professor of Sociology Tukufu Zuberi, shows its human face. The ACAP, founded and based at Penn, presently contains the last 50 years of census materials from 15 African nations, with more countries being added each year.
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The engineer that could
When Tony Alvarez (EAS'00) was a junior in high school, his girlfriend got pregnant. He had not been a stellar student up to that point, so his response was a little unusual. "I got serious about school," Alvarez says. "I had a lot of friends who were my same age that had kids, and they ended up dropping out of school and selling drugs and things like that, and I knew it was one of those two paths." The path he took was to Penn.
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"Heliodorus: 'An Ethiopian Romance'"
Translated by Moses Hadas $17.95 paper, 288 pages The romance novel didn't begin with Kathleen Woodiwiss or even with the Bronte sisters. By the time Heliodorus wrote his "Aethiopica"-or "Ethiopian Romance"-in the third century, the genre was already impressively developed. Heliodorus launches his tale of love and the quirks of fate with a bizarre scene of blood, bodies, and booty on an Egyptian beach viewed through the eyes of a band of mystified pirates.