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Boston, Austin, Australia - what a trip!
"World Cafe" fans know that host David Dye will go anywhere to seek out fresh new music. But this week, he's taking a trip of a different kind (see Tuesday's listing) in between showcasing performers from Boston and Austin. Here's the complete rundown for the next two weeks: Thursday, Jan. 14 Ellis Paul visits the studio Friday, Jan. 15 A special Boston Day featuring Geoff Muldaur and Peter Wolf Monday, Jan. 18 Martin Sexton performs music from his latest album, "The American"
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Alumni Relations gets director
Martin Rapisarda Martin Rapisarda, Ph.D., was appointed Director of Alumni Relations, succeeding Martha Stachitas, who moved to Florida. A former Philadelphian, he came to Penn in late November from Purdue University's Krannert Graduate School of Management, where he ran the executive master's programs. In alumni relations, he will be using his experience with distance learning and marketing.
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Ceramic bones mend like real ones
The beauty of human bones is that when broken, they fix themselves. But sometimes bones deteriorate in such a way that they can't repair themselves effectively. Bone grafts are currently the preferred solution, but they pose problems of their own. A team of Penn researchers has come up with a better cure: artificial bone with a heart of glass. The artificial bone overcomes instances when patients don't have enough bone suitable for grafting, and instances when grafts fail to attach themselves properly or even become infected.
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Lord of the steppes
For dazzling choreography and eye-popping gymnastic moves, the Moiseyev Dance Company has few peers anywhere on the planet. And neither the 62-year-old troupe nor its 92-year-old artistic director, Igor Moiseyev, show any signs of slowing down soon.
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Fredrik Hiebert
It's the stuff that made Indiana Jones and that lost ark an international sensation: adventures over land, across seas and in the middle of deserts. Archaeologist Fredrik T. Hiebert, Ph.D., would probably be the last to find the glamour in his adventures, but his energetic tales and disarming enthusiasm leave listeners captivated. The Robert H. Dyson Jr. Assistant Professor of Anthropology and assistant curator of the University Museum, Hiebert set out to be an artist, took a turn in Paris and wound up an archaeologist.
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Decathlete hams it up
About two weeks before the Mr. Penn Body-Building contest, Matt Newcomb (C'01) thought his body had reached a point where he wouldn't embarrass himself. That's when he bought the Speedo. "I think I'm going to look pretty good," he remembered thinking.
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Out of Penn Nursing comes help for cancer
I can recall lectures at the Penn Nursing School given by the star faculty on direct patient care. They said, when a patient experiences pain, you must believe that they are telling the truth. I have been an operating room nurse for 10 years, but it wasn't until I became a patient myself, that I really understood what it actually felt like to be "on the other side." On May 5th, I discovered a lump in my left breast. On May 6th I was handed the bad news: ductal adenocarcinoma of the left breast at age 31.
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Students prep for UP jobs at UC High
How are Penn and other area institutions and businesses going to get the trained workers they need for the future? Anthony Blalock and Nicole Dilday are working on that matter. Blalock and Dilday are two of 23 young adults currently enrolled in the Skills Development Center at University City High School. The center, a Penn-funded and -staffed project headed by Ron Story, trains West Philadelphia residents in the skills they need to land retail, hospitality and office jobs.
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Nurses and physicists named as fellows
Linda Aiken
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"Rum Punch & Revolution: Taverngoing and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia"
Peter Thompson $18.50 paper, 21 illustrations The taverns of colonial Philadelphia provided more than hard cider and euphemisms for being tipsy. They were also an arena for political and social change.