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When it comes to Africa, he means business

Photo by Candace diCarlo

His co-workers said he'd end up working for Dining. They were right.

Adam Sherr Photo by Candace diCarlo You could probably say that Adam Sherr eats, sleeps and drinks Penn. Literally. As marketing manager for Dining Services, Sherr helps determine what foods Penn students will feast on in the campus dining halls and the late-night eateries managed by Dining Services. And yes, he eats the same fare the students eat at lunch, and often at dinner, too.

Penn hasn't looked the same since she started working for it.

Marion Wyce Photo by Candace diCarlo When Marion Wyce found she couldn't afford to head straight to graduate school, she looked for work in the non-profit sector, and found it at Penn. She went full time working for her old boss, Peshe Kuriloff, in Writing Across the University. Then she got lucky, she said, and heard of an opening in the Health System.

Pioneer grant awarded

The largest grant ever awarded from the Alzheimer's Association, and one of the largest grants in the disease's field - $1 million - went to a husband-and-wife team of scientists from Penn's School of Medicine, the Alzheimer's Association announced Oct. 15. John Q. Trojanowski, M.D., Ph.D., and Virginia M.-Y. Lee, Ph.D., study neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, for which both have received numerous awards.

NSF gives Ecker $12.5 million

Deans step down

Thomas P. Gerrity, dean of the Wharton School since 1990, and Colin S. Diver, dean of the Law School since 1989, both submitted their resignations last week, effective June 30, 1999, but plan to stay on as professors. Thomas P. Gerrity Gerrity plans to pursue scholarly interests and teach at Wharton.

Bill of Rights protects lies of Bill

Some parts of the Bill of Rights were intended to protect lying, at least a certain kind of lying. Because of that, the spirit of the Bill of Rights is in direct opposition to many aspects of the Starr investigations, particularly forced testimony.

"The drums are the beginning of everything."

Photo by Mary Kathryn Ceise AHMED LEWIS Position: Security Supervisor, Penn Bookstore Length of service: 11 years Other stuff: He's also a poet - he hopes to publish a collection of his work soon.

Films and texts reveal the true religion

How Jewish women dress, poetry and Protestantism, the erotics of Jewish genius. These are the kinds of things Associate Professor of English Elisa New, a scholar of American religion in literature, thinks about and writes about. Long puzzled by the disparity between the written, biblical rules and the unwritten, cultural expectations of her own religion, Judaism, she now searches for nonexplicit religious expectations expressed in texts and films.