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"I've always had a love of history and geography - you can't be in the industry without that."
DiNardo delights in her own magnificent cake, brought in for the office to share. Photo by Candace diCarlo
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Farber forecasts
Internet godfather David Farber, the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication Systems, told a full Alumni Hall in the Towne Building on Feb. 24 that universities in the information age must be prepared for technology-aided advances such as multi-institutional seminars, international rump sessions among students, and key lectures from afar. Farber is the first academic from the University to speak to the School of Engineering and Applied Science's Technology, Business and Government Distinguished Lecture series this year.
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New Trustees begin their terms of service on Board
The new Term, Alumni and Commonwealth Trustees attended their first Board meeting on Feb. 17. Term Trustees The three new Term Trustees, who were appointed on Oct. 31, 1998 and will serve until Oct. 30, 2003, are: Dr. Mitchell J. Blutt (C'78, M 82, W'87), Executive Partner at Chase Capital Partners in New York and an adjunct professor at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center;
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"The Flowering of the Landscape Garden: English Pleasure Grounds, 1720-1800"
Mark Laird $49.95 cloth; 416 pages; 66 color and 228 black-and-white illustrations Mark Laird, a distinguished University of Toronto landscape historian, has written a wonderfully detailed and absorbing history of the aesthetic and horticultural development of the English garden.
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Astrophysicist digs holes to chart the stars
Research at the South Pole may hold certain occupational hazards - freezing to death or finding vintage Yoo-Hoos in the galley - but it also offers the opportunity to discover if any neutrinos are ceaselessly bombarding the earth. With a grant from the Penn Research Foundation, Doug Cowen, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, traveled south this past winter break to conduct research on neutrinos.
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Cheap and sticky art
Stickers are low-cost works of art that are provocative, ubiquitous, and often humorous. The "Sticker Shock" show at the Institute of Contemporary Art, 36th and Sansom, is intended as a broad overview of the artist sticker, as well as work made by artists who appropriate existing stickers. The desire to be inclusive means a lot of "kids" got exhibited. Those who were late with their submissions or were just visiting the show were invited to participate anyway, although in a separate, smaller "sticker your own" gallery.
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"Light of Falling Stars" shines on rising young author
Two books into his short career as a novelist, J. Robert Lennon (C'92) can afford to be pleased with his career choice. His first novel, "The Light of Falling Stars," garnered him the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, and the book's cover drips with plaudits from the likes of Time and The New Yorker. Lennon's new novel out this month, "the funnies," is set in West Philadelphia, where he spent his university years.
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Raider stalks Wharton
The Wharton School is a better place today, thanks to the assistance of a fat cat. Actually, the cat's not that fat. His name is Raider, and his job is keeping the mice that occasionally show up in Wharton buildings on the run. Raider Photo by Candace diCarlo
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Batter up!
Penn's intramural softball league takes the field March 16 for its spring season. Faculty, staff and students are all welcome to join; all games take place on Hill Field. Team rosters and deposits ($75, refundable) must be submitted by March 4; the captains' meeting is March 15. For more information or to sign up your team online, visit the Recreation Web site; you can also call 898-6100 for signup information.
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Make room for history
Matthew Mindrup (GAr'99, right) explains his vision of a new, expanded home for the Atwater Kent Museum to reviewers who visited Meyerson Hall Feb. 4. Mindrup, along with the other students in David Slovic's architecture course, tackled the problem of extending the city's history museum onto Independence Mall via the lobby of the Rohm and Haas Building. Photo by Candace diCarlo