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New releases from old names and new
This coming month, "The World Cafe" features new music by Haydn -- Lili Haydn, whose first album "Lili" has just been released. Steve Poltz, who wrote Jewel's "You Were Meant for Me," also makes his solo debut on Feb. 27, and several old familiar faces will also stop by over the next few weeks: Thursday, Feb. 26 Former Dream Academy vocalist Kate St. John Friday, Feb. 27 Singer-songwriter Steve Poltz Monday, March 2 Portuguese world-music group Madradeus
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Bio factors found in anorexia studies
Kate Moss worshippers and other stereotyped sufferers of anorexia nervosa got some of the stigma of their disorder lifted recently, thanks to research done by Wade Berrettini, Ph.D., director of Penn's Center for Neurobiology and Behavior. It turns out that anorexia -- an eating disorder in which victims starve themselves, sometimes to death -- might be traced to biological causes, rather than purely societal and cultural pressures.
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Penn and Russian doctors explore a cool surgical procedure
A team of Russian physicians visited the Medical Center this month with news about an open-heart surgical procedure that leaves patients cold. The news and the team were warmly received by their Penn anesthesia department hosts, who have received a University grant to begin a collaborative research project with the Russian doctors.
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Rose Named New Managing Director of the Annenberg Center at the University of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA --- Michael J. Rose, Executive Director of the Glassboro Center for the Arts at Rowan University, has been named Managing Director of the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, effective March 16. "Michael Rose is exactly the person we need to lead the Annenberg Center into the 21st Century," said Penn's Interim Provost Michael L. Wachter. "He is enormously creative, energetic and knowledgeable about the performing arts and he has strong financial, marketing and managerial skills."
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Cendent CEO Henry R. Silverman Makes the Largest Gift Ever to an American Law School
PHILADELPHIA --- Henry R. Silverman, president and chief executive officer of Cendant Corporation, Stamford, Conn., and Parsippany, N. J., a global leader in consumer and business services, has made the largest outright gift ever to an American law school -- $15 million -- to the University of Pennsylvania Law School, according to University of Pennsylvania President Judith Rodin. Rodin made the announcement today following the meeting of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia last week. Silverman, a trustee, is a 1964 graduate of the Penn Law School.
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Administrative appointments
Landis Zimmerman, the new Managing Director for Investments at the University, effective Jan. 19, is the former associate director of investments for the Rockefeller Foundation. He will be responsible for directing the management of Penn's endowment. Zimmerman (W'81, WG'85) received his B.S.Econ. and his M.B.A. in finance. His financial career began in 1981 as an assistant treasurer at Chemical Bank. He went on to become a vice president at J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. and then an associate director at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. before arriving at Penn.
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Police move west of 40th Street
Related story: Q&A with Director of Police Operations Maureen Rush In a move designed to upgrade safety in the University City area and create a stronger presence on the 40th Street corridor, the University police have relocated to state-of-the-art public safety headquarters on Chestnut Street near 40th.
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Seven things to know about El Niño
While El Niño may be one of the few bright spots in forecasting future states of the atmosphere and their impacts on societal activities, there will still be some misses. But scientists are increasingly developing a more complete understanding of this important natural phenomenon, which will surely enable governments and people worldwide to prepare for the weather associated with El Niño events.
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Electronic nose sniffs out infections
A news report about a dog that could smell cancerous lesions triggered a Penn researcher to consider the far-reaching possibilities of smell technologies and their use in detecting and diagnosing all kinds of medical maladies. Using technology developed by British company AromaScan, C. William Hanson III, M.D., associate professor of anesthesia and chief of anesthesia/critical-care medicine at Penn's Medical Center, set out to apply an "electronic nose" to sniff out disease.
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Mitchell to address Baccalaureate
Andrea Mitchell (CW'67), chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News, will be the speaker at this year's Baccalaureate ceremony on Sunday, May 17. President Judith Rodin selected Mitchell as Baccalaureate speaker after conferring with numerous University officials and the Trustees' Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee.