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Ancient artifacts bring new gallery to life
So you've got this treasure trove of over 15,000 artifacts from the ancient lands of the Bible, the collected fruits of nearly 80 years of archaeological research. What to do with them?
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Whose Internet is it?
BY THOMAS P. HUGHES When Bill Gates of Microsoft says that government with its antitrust maneuvers is meddling in the marketplace and that "what the government is asking would significantly hamper us from competing," he is forgetting something: It was government "meddling" two decades ago that initiated the Internet in which Microsoft and Netscape Corporation are seeking competitive advantage today.
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Professor seeks and finds solar systems' missing links
Professor of Physics and Astronomy David Koerner wouldn't mind finding life outside of Earth's atmosphere, but for now he'll settle on discovering the solar system around the star HR4796. Koerner led a team at Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, that photographed dust and gas rotating and configuring in a disk around the star last April. The dust around the outside, hole in the middle and bright spot at its center gave astronomers the most definitive view of a solar system to date and clues about how our own system formed.
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Peter Nowell
Peter Nowell, the Gaylord Harnwell Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, doesn't take himself too seriously. That casual attitude perhaps explains how he was able to do the research that last September won him the Lasker Award, American medicine's most prestigious honor. The Lasker Award-winning researcher believes that serendipity can still be an important research tool.
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Grant boosts neighbors' role
Thanks to a $325,000 grant announced this month by The Pew Charitable Trusts, the community's role in a new University-assisted public school at 42nd and Locust will be strengthened.
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Strokes of inspiration
Students from campus organizations, fraternities and sororities and several College Houses spent the afternoon of Jan. 17 at Civic House painting banners featuring quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for display on Locust Walk. The banner-painting kicked-off Penn's semester-long official celebration of Martin Luther King Day. On the holiday itself, students, faculty and staff signed up for volunteer service, participated in panel discussions and heard speeches by Palmer Foundation director Walter Palmer, Rev.
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The world according to Paul Schrader
What happens when you take a kid who, thanks to his strict Calvinist upbringing, never saw a movie until he was 18 and turn him into an author/director? Chances are you'd get something pretty wild. At least that's what happened in Paul Schrader's case: his films often celebrate the seamier side of the world. But they're more than mere walks on the wild side, as the Paul Schrader retrospective at International House Feb. 3-7 makes clear.
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Don't move a muscle
The outcome of the gymnastics season is in the balance as Kirby Thorpe (C'00) practices with the team. The defending Ivy and Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference team champs started off with a big win against Cornell. They have high hopes for the Ivy Classic Championship, Sunday, Feb. 28, 1 p.m., at the Palestra. The rest of the season schedule is on line at the Penn Athletics Web site. Photo by Candace diCarlo
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Math whiz
The 1999 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement went to Richard V. Kadison, Ph.D., Kuemmerle Professor of Mathematics. The prize, considered the American equivalent of a Nobel, was awarded by the American Mathematical Society on Jan. 14. Kadison is one of the founders and leading exponents of the theory of operator algebras, a subject providing the mathematical framework for the basic structure of quantum mechanics.
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Our favorite CDs of 1998
So, of the thousands of new titles that poured into the record stores last year, which ones did Penn students like best? Our small sample suggests that there's no clear favorite, though the Dave Matthews Band appears to have some wide appeal. Our sample also suggests that Penn students don't always choose the most popular or the most commercial in their musical tastes. But then again, who defines "commercial" better than the Material Girl herself, still putting out after all these years?