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Astrophysicist digs holes to chart the stars
Research at the South Pole may hold certain occupational hazards - freezing to death or finding vintage Yoo-Hoos in the galley - but it also offers the opportunity to discover if any neutrinos are ceaselessly bombarding the earth. With a grant from the Penn Research Foundation, Doug Cowen, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, traveled south this past winter break to conduct research on neutrinos.
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Cheap and sticky art
Stickers are low-cost works of art that are provocative, ubiquitous, and often humorous. The "Sticker Shock" show at the Institute of Contemporary Art, 36th and Sansom, is intended as a broad overview of the artist sticker, as well as work made by artists who appropriate existing stickers. The desire to be inclusive means a lot of "kids" got exhibited. Those who were late with their submissions or were just visiting the show were invited to participate anyway, although in a separate, smaller "sticker your own" gallery.
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"Light of Falling Stars" shines on rising young author
Two books into his short career as a novelist, J. Robert Lennon (C'92) can afford to be pleased with his career choice. His first novel, "The Light of Falling Stars," garnered him the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, and the book's cover drips with plaudits from the likes of Time and The New Yorker. Lennon's new novel out this month, "the funnies," is set in West Philadelphia, where he spent his university years.
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Raider stalks Wharton
The Wharton School is a better place today, thanks to the assistance of a fat cat. Actually, the cat's not that fat. His name is Raider, and his job is keeping the mice that occasionally show up in Wharton buildings on the run. Raider Photo by Candace diCarlo
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Batter up!
Penn's intramural softball league takes the field March 16 for its spring season. Faculty, staff and students are all welcome to join; all games take place on Hill Field. Team rosters and deposits ($75, refundable) must be submitted by March 4; the captains' meeting is March 15. For more information or to sign up your team online, visit the Recreation Web site; you can also call 898-6100 for signup information.
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Make room for history
Matthew Mindrup (GAr'99, right) explains his vision of a new, expanded home for the Atwater Kent Museum to reviewers who visited Meyerson Hall Feb. 4. Mindrup, along with the other students in David Slovic's architecture course, tackled the problem of extending the city's history museum onto Independence Mall via the lobby of the Rohm and Haas Building. Photo by Candace diCarlo
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Bottoms up is thumbs down, these days
It's pledge season, a time of year when new fraternity and sorority members may find themselves facing unfamiliar situations with alcohol and sex. But they've got help, thanks to an army of close to 200 student volunteers. The volunteers are peer educators, and they work for an alphabet soup of organizations that target problem behavior - behavior like unwanted sexual advances or binge eating or excessive drinking.
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Films that question
This year's edition of the Margaret Mead Traveling Film and Video Festival, which stops at the University of Pennsylvania Museum Feb. 26-28, features several works that ask provocative questions. Question Number One: Who owns the stories of indigenous cultures on display in Western ethnographic museums such as Penn's?
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Temps find steadier work at Penn's Job Center
By Sandy Smith Looking for work, or looking for workers? Short-term or long-term? The Penn Job Center has you covered. The Job Center, operated by Todays Penn Partnership since last July, offers one-stop shopping for people looking for and offices looking to fill support positions. The center deepens the partnership between Penn's Division of Human Resources and Todays Office Staffing, which has been providing temporary office staff to the University since 1995.
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Reefer Madness update
Thomas Anthony (Brian Appel, C'01) and Mary St. Helen (Ryan Baber, C'02), who are not quite hip enough, are supposed to reach out to youth in a video against drug abuse, a sort of play within Mask and Wig's play, "From Here to Maturity." The all-male show will continue tonight, tomorrow and Saturday, and March 18 and 19 (the 20th is sold out) at their clubhouse, 310 Quince Street. For information and tickets, call 898-6791 or 898-9999, mailbox WIG.