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NEH grant will expand popular Shakespeare Web site
Fragile, ancient texts, traditionally guarded and sequestered by the Special Collections librarians on the sixth floor of Van Pelt, suddenly are accessible to not just serious scholars at Penn but also to teachers, high school students, anyone with access to an Internet-connected computer anywhere in the world.
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Fists of fury, fists of fun
Photo by Sondra Cartwright Members of Penn's Tae Kwon Do Club instructed young girls from the West Philadelphia community in the Asian art of self-defense during a Neighborhood Youth Sports Program workshop April 11. At the event, the girls learned the basic moves and saw demonstrations of the technique in action. The workshop is part of an ongoing series of Recreation Department programs that pair Penn athletes with neighborhood youth.
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Global divas, High Llamas, and Dead veterans
Grateful Dead fans will want to tune in "The World Cafe" on Friday, May 1, when band alumni Bob Weir and Rob Wasserman's visit to Tongue & Groove Studios is the feature of the day. For the rest of the next two weeks, host David Dye and the Cafe crew will serve up a little something for everyone: Thursday, April 30 Jolene performs music from its new release "In the Gloaming"
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U. strikes high-Caliber agreement
Business execs taking courses in Wharton's "Working Knowledge Series" next semester need not take any big steps away from the board room to be marked "present" for class. In the first collaboration of its kind, the University has teamed with Baltimore-based Caliber Learning Network Inc. in a distributed learning agreement that will propel traditional classroom experiences into the age of the Internet, Penn Interim Provost Michael L. Wachter announced last week.
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Bridging the black-Jewish gap
For 16 Penn undergraduate students, the much-discussed gulf between blacks and Jews narrowed to a bridgeable stream this year, thanks to a new program, "Alliance and Understanding," developed by Afi Roberson, staff assistant at the African American Resource Center.
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Virgin Quintet's Nathan Chinen tunes his many skills on and off campus
Nathan Chinen (C'97) graduated from Penn with a degree in creative writing in December, but his experiences were more than academic. "College is not just about doing the papers or taking the exams; it is also about the experiences," Chinen said. And in four years he has cultivated his music while fine-tuning his writing skills. He admits that finding a musical niche was difficult, however. "It took two years for me to find musicians who can play."
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State Rep. Curry advises GSE on legislative strategies
As educational reform issues hit the state legislature this month and beyond, Graduate School of Education staff and faculty must choose their words and make them heard, advised State Rep. Lawrence H. Curry. Curry spoke at GSE Dean Susan Fuhrman's request to GSE members on April 8 about upcoming pieces of legislation and offered his take on the political motivations behind some bills, and what their outcomes could be. The political climate concerning urban education -- and concerning teachers in general -- is not a friendly one, he noted.
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Off-the-cuff stuff
Photo by Candace diCarlo Forget about beauty. Forget about ideas. Poetry is about words. At least, it is, according to poet and Penn alum William Carlos Williams, who was celebrated April 1 when the Kelly Writers House set up its Magnetic Poetry Wall on Locust Walk. Tahneer Oksman (pictured) was feeling "slow but languid" as she added her two cents to the build-a-poem on College Green.
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Summit increased volunteers
A year after the Presidents' Summit for America's Future, volunteerism at Penn has hit all-time highs, according to reports released March 20 by Isabel Mapp, associate director of faculty, staff and alumni volunteer services and director of Penn Volunteers in Public Service (Penn VIPS). More than 2,500 students, faculty and staff provide service to the community, the reports stated.
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Nine honorary degrees to be awarded
Former President and Commencement speaker Jimmy Carter and wife Rosalynn Carter will be two recipients of honorary degrees that will be handed out at Penn's 242nd Commencement on May 18. The Carters are being honored for their efforts to promote human rights, conflict resolution and public health through the Carter Center as well as their efforts on behalf of Habitat for Humanity, which builds housing for needy families. Also scheduled to be recognized with honorary degrees: