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In the drink, off the sauce
Rich Andrews (EAS'01) got soaked. But he got his revenge when soaker Carrie Wang (C'01) became the soakee. The two were playing "Double Dare" for the first campus-wide Penn PM event, at King's Court/ English College House Oct. 23 and 24. Penn PM programs are alcohol-free alternatives to the traditional campus party scene. The event borrowed the format of the television game show "Double Dare" with trivia questions, physical challenges, and an obstacle course at the end.
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Searches for dean, directors begin
A search committee for a new dean for the School of Engineering and Applied Science has been named as well as search committees to replace directors for both the Institute of Contemporary Art and the Fels Center of Government.
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Ruzena Bajcsy
Ruzena Bajcsy, professor of computer and information science and director of the General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception Laboratory, had to be persuaded to pose for pictures for this story.
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Green day
Andrew Harris (C'01) (left), Christine Chang (C'01) and Puja Suneja (W'01) were among more than 60 Penn students who volunteered Oct. 24, along with community members and landlords, to plant 2,500 tulip and daffodil bulbs along the curbs on Pine Street and Baltimore Avenue.
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New director for Leonard Davis Institute
David Asch, M.D., MBA, has been named Executive Director of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, Penn's health-care think tank, where he will be responsible for the continuation and expansion of the Institute's research on financing and management of the nation's health care system. He will also serve as Robert D. Eilers Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Care Management and Economics and the School of Medicine and the Wharton School.
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"Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West"
Georges Duby $24.95 paper; 632 pages "Georges Duby's treatise and source book of Western agriculture is one of the most important, imaginative, solidly documented, well- written books of medieval history that I have ever read. ... Duby's work deserves to be pronounced a masterpiece, because it offers a unique combination of synthetic power and analytic perception, of bold judgment and Cartesian doubt, of hard economic facts and subtle psychological considerations."
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Poor neighborhoods don't mean poor parenting
In work that contradicts fatalistic studies of urban youth and their parents, Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology Frank F. Furstenberg Jr., along with four other sociologists and psychologists, tackles how and why some poor, inner-city children overcome social disadvantages and create opportunities despite the dangers that surround them in their neighborhoods. A big answer: parents.
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Coming soon: the downloadable remote
Eugene Huang demonstrates the computer-based universal remote he developed with Peter Daley. The two have formed a company to bring their invention to market. Photo by Candace diCarlo It was so much simpler when there were only 12 channels and the remote control had three buttons: the on-off switch, the volume control and the channel changer.
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Princess visits cow palace
And that's Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand on the left, inspecting the livestock. But do the cows care? Apparently not. Nonetheless, the princess' visit Oct. 25-27 was a big deal for Penn, as it helped cement existing ties between the University and Thai institutions and allowed the Thais to explore new avenues for educational exchange, including how the cows here get the royal treatment.
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Faith in the future of our inner cities
John DiIulio While the ideologues on the left and right were busy blaming each other for the deterioration of America's inner cities, a curious thing happened: policymakers and scholars interested in reversing the slide got religion.