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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.
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Healthy alternatives
After decades of ignoring alternative therapies or dismissing them as quackery, academic medical centers throughout the United States are now struggling with the question of whether - and how - to include alternative therapies in their clinics and hospitals.
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A push for standards
In an effort to improve housing for students living in University City, the Office of Off-Campus Living and nearly 40 local landlords have been working since September to promote better housing standards. "Off-Campus Living will implement a new process of listing which will ask the listers to comply to the new set of standards," said Mihaela Farcas, director of Off-Campus Living. Until now, Off-Campus Living has listed any local properties landlords submitted.
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In South Africa, men cared for men
Of all the professions, none has been more strongly identified with women or stigmatized among men than nursing. And yet, there was a time and a place where male nurses were the rule, and nobody thought much of it. This was the biggest discovery Shula Marks, professor of the history of southern Africa at the University of London, made in her research on the phenomenon of men nursing South African mine workers from the late 19th century well into the 20th.
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How we resolve to enter the millennium
We wondered how the forthcoming millennium might affect our New Year's resolutions - Swear that we'd go to church more frequently? Promise to call our mother every day? Promise to give up cursing, or drinking or dancing? Nuh-uh. Not Penn students. This is a group focused on the here and now, for the most part. Eat less. Pump iron. Earn more. Sleep right.
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A buried creek builds bridges
Way back when, a stream flowed through West Philadelphia, bisecting the growing middle- and upper-middle-class community. That stream, Mill Creek, was buried in a giant sewer shortly before the turn of the century. Now, the creek is invisible and the divide that splits West Philly is a socioeconomic one between the University community and the poorer neighborhoods that border it. Professor of landscape architecture Anne Whiston Spirn has used the buried creek to bridge this new gap, with promising results.
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Barchi named Provost
Robert L. Barchi, M.D., Ph.D. (Gr'72, M'73), the David Mahoney Professor of Neurological Sciences, was named Penn's 27th Provost by President Judith Rodin on Dec. 4, effective Feb. 1. Robert L. Barchi Photo by Tommy Leonardi