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Survey results challenge faculty assumptions
In today's fast-paced, highly interactive, communication-oriented society, traditional lecture and discussion courses no longer stimulate students the way they once did. In fact, students are eager for courses that provide hands-on learning experiences linked to real-world problems. But, as my research on the subject demonstrated, the potential for academically-based community service to enrich the undergraduate curriculum at Penn remains unrealized, and students, faculty and administrators all have a role to play in changing this situation.
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"People don't even give it a chance -it's 'Ewww! Oooh! How can you do that stuff?'"
Photo by Candace diCarlo JEANNETTE TASEY Position: Medical photographer, Biomedical Communications, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center Length of service: 3 years Other stuff: She has also studied guitar construction and repairs guitars on the side.
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Program engenders new areas of study
What a difference 25 years makes, and the Women's Studies program is celebrating just that. Between 1964 and 1974, the women's experience at Penn transmogrified like no other: In that time, the University ceased to monitor women's social lives; the College for Women became integrated with the entire University; women started writing for the school newspaper; student governments merged; and women got organized on a grand scale.
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"The Language of the Heart, 1600-1750"
"The Language of the Heart, 1600-1750" by Robert A. Erickson, $36.95 cloth; 296 pages. If the heart is most often associated with love, its meanings in the early modern period were far more complicated and unstable. In "The Language of the Heart, 1600-1700," Robert A. Erickson contends that the making of the modern world coincided with the reconfiguration of gender and that the changes in the representation of the heart both reflected and helped produce this shift.
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Civic House creates hub for outreach
Junior Engineering student Eric Lindberg snatched up pamphlets and flyers that beckoned students to get involved in community activities. He stopped by the opening of Civic House, 3914 Locust Walk, last week to see what his friends had been up to and came away with what organizers had hoped -- a civic streak. "I am impressed by all the work and time they took putting this together," Lindberg said. "It inspired me to get involved."
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Sweat...
... in 7,500 square feet, with bikes, treadmills, stair climbers, rowing ergometers and cross-training equipment, free weights and weight machines at the new Ellen and Howard C. Katz Fitness Center in Gimbel Gym, 37th and Walnut streets. The annual cost? Students, $75; faculty and staff, $200; spouses, alumni and other Penn affiliates, $250. Photo by Dwight Luckey
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Library goes high tech
The makeshift, ground floor entrance into the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center has been shut, replaced by the newly renovated entrance into a spectacular, information-age library. At 3 p.m. Sept. 11, President Judith Rodin cut the first of a series of ribbons to inaugurate the new spaces inside.
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Students pick toughest classes
Chemistry is definitely the class that makes students' test tubes tremble. Then there's law school threat, accounting loathing and writing cramp. And of course some students can't wait to dig into the new semester. YOUNG HWANGBO, COLLEGE, CLASS OF '01 I'm taking Organic Chemistry and Physical Chemistry, so it will be difficult for me. These two are known as killer classes. PATRICE LAKE, NURSING, CLASS OF '99 I'm dreading Care of the Middle-Aged Adult. It's supposed to be really hard.
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Last-resort antibiotic gets a new lease on life
For years, vancomycin has been the antibiotic of last resort -- the one doctors used when all others failed. But recent news of patients succumbing to new, vancomycin-resistant strains of bacteria has lent an urgency to efforts to find new drugs to combat these bugs.
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College House deans named
The new, comprehensive College House system is ready for its first year with appointments of 12 new house deans to provide administrative leadership and coordinate the delivery of academic services in the houses. They are listed in alphabetical order by house name: