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A Philly literary feast
It's Philly phact and Philly phiction, poetry and prose, past and present, literary luminaries and hidden treasures. It's "A Celebration of Philadelphia Writers" - a two-day festival March 26 and 27 celebrating the city's rich literary heritage and its continuing tradition of producing outstanding novelists, poets, playwrights, journalists, essayists and screenwriters.
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Grant to heal W. Phila.
A health clinic in West Philadelphia staffed by Penn students from four schools has just gotten a shot in the arm from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The students collaborated on the funding proposal for the two-year, $35,000 student-written grant to expand the health outreach program at the First African Presbyterian Church at 42nd and Girard. The grant was one of four selected from 23 applications submitted to Kellogg's Interdisciplinary Community Health Fellowship program.
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Whippersnappers test slippers and grippers
Wrap your hand in a piece of satin. Wrap your other hand in a piece of sandpaper. Rub the two against each other. What did you notice? Congratulations, you've just done science. Five- to 7-year-old children in three Philadelphia elementary schools are now doing science experiments like these. It's part of a curriculum developed by Penn faculty and local public school teachers, designed to prepare the youngest students for demanding new academic standards.
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Rare stars and radical legends
The revolution still will not be televised, but "The World Cafe" will broadcast it when legendary poet/musician Gil Scott-Heron drops by on Thursday, March 18. Scott-Heron kicks off two wonderful weeks on "The World Cafe": Thursday, March 18 Gil Scott-Heron drops by the studio for a performance and interview. Friday, March 19 Rusted Root visits Philadelphia's Tin Angel for a live performance and discussion of their latest self-titled album.
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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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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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New Trustees begin their terms of service on Board
The new Term, Alumni and Commonwealth Trustees attended their first Board meeting on Feb. 17. Term Trustees The three new Term Trustees, who were appointed on Oct. 31, 1998 and will serve until Oct. 30, 2003, are: Dr. Mitchell J. Blutt (C'78, M 82, W'87), Executive Partner at Chase Capital Partners in New York and an adjunct professor at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center;
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"The Flowering of the Landscape Garden: English Pleasure Grounds, 1720-1800"
Mark Laird $49.95 cloth; 416 pages; 66 color and 228 black-and-white illustrations Mark Laird, a distinguished University of Toronto landscape historian, has written a wonderfully detailed and absorbing history of the aesthetic and horticultural development of the English garden.