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Service takes spotlight in this year's speeches
General Colin Powell can rest easy: Penn's graduation speakers this year did his work for him. Besides former President Jimmy Carter's Commencement call to service, at least four other graduation speakers urged students to consider public service as they make their way in the world.
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Hot time, summer in the city
Just what is hot about staying in Philadelphia, besides the pavement? Some of you were kind of cool to the idea. But more of you are staying here than negative addytoods suggest. James Blumenthal, College, Class of 1999 "The best reason to stay in Philly is that there is a good nightlife after you finish work." Nikhil Da Victoria Lobo, Wharton, Class of 2001 "The best reason to stay in Philly is probably summer school."
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Celebrating the people who make Penn special
Forget Ben Franklin and all the Penn provosts and presidents that followed in his footsteps -- it's the faculty and staff who have devoted themselves to the University that give it its distinctive character. Which is why President Judith Rodin, Interim Provost Michael Wachter and Executive Vice President John Fry have invited Penn faculty and staff to a three-day celebration of the contribution we all make to the institution.
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Penn Law School Receives Professorship from Independence Foundation Honoring Theodore K. Warner, Jr.
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania Law School has received a $2 million endowed professorship from the Independence Foundation, a private, not-for-profit, philanthropic organization serving the Philadelphia area. The gift is allocated for the Theodore K. Warner Jr. Professorship in Business Law, in honor of the current secretary and treasurer and past president of the Foundation and Penn Law alumnus.
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What's a carnival without a sideshow?
Once a year, I take advantage of the opportunity to check out people from all over in colorful costumes, sample foods not normally found in these precincts, examine merchandise from the tacky to the sublime, and subject myself to a sales pitch or two, all right here on campus. And maybe if I have some time to spare, I might catch a little bit of that track meet nearby.
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Michael Wachter
Penn gets ready for the Next Big Thing -- distributed learning. In the first collaboration of its kind, the University recently announced it 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
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APPOINTMENTS
Six Faculty Fellows have been appointed to the new comprehensive College Houses. The new Fellows will begin their two-year terms on July 1 and will live and dine in the College Houses with their families, bringing House residents into daily contact with Penn's scholars and teachers. They are informal advisors, program initiators and bridge builders to the other resources of the University. Faculty Fellows are selected by Faculty Masters in consultation with students and staff within each College House.
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Penn welcomes her far-flung sons and daughters back
The University Commencement is traditionally a time for both looking back and looking ahead. The 242nd Commencement ceremony itself, along with the graduation exercises in Penn's 12 graduate and four undergraduate schools, honors the achievements of Penn's latest graduating class as well as the contributions Penn alums and others have made to society.
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The stuff of life made visible
Pennsylvania artist Stacy Levy's site-specific installations serve an educational as well as an aesthetic purpose: they make natural phenomena and aspects of nature that we either cannot see or often ignore plainly visible through sculpture. Levy's work will be much in evidence around Penn over the next month, with two indoor works opening May 17 at the Institute of Contemporary Art and her latest outdoor installation, "Wissahickon Food Web," being formally unveiled that same morning at the Morris Arboretum.
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A world of theater for children
Now that the big kids are going away for the summer, it's time for the little ones to have fun. And fun -- along with drama, adventure, myth, music, crafts and food -- is the order of the day at the 14th annual Philadelphia International Theatre Festival for Children, which returns to the Annenberg Center May 20-24. Five indoor theaters will feature nine different productions from performers and companies around the world, with a special focus on Montreal artists in keeping with the center's year-long Montreal Festival.