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Alzheimer's challenges family fabric
Years ago, as a young woman living on my own, I expected some day to get a phone call telling me that my father had had a heart attack or a stroke. I dreaded that call. It never came. What came instead was Alzheimer's disease. A far more dreadful visitor, it has imposed on my father a steady erosion of all he has been, and taken away a proud identity. My father, the wise man, the leader, the family caretaker, the mensch, now watches the world with a look of bewilderment that breaks my heart.
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Undergrad fees rise slightly
Next year's 3.9 percent increase in total undergraduate charges is the smallest in three decades, according to Penn President Judith Rodin. Tuition, fees, room and board will run undergrads $30,490. The figure accelerates the downward trend for tuition and fee hikes at Penn. "Our 3.9 percent increase is slightly below last year's average family income growth rate of approximately 4 percent across the nation," Rodin said.
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Snow and other spring surprises
Phoebe Snow can't complain -- and neither can "World Cafe" listeners when the legendary singer-songwriter visits host David Dye to discuss her new album on April 10. Encore performances by Alana Davis and Loudon Wainwright III and a salute to the national pastime are among the other highlights of the next two weeks:
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Sloan Foundation/NSF award to biologist
Paul Sneigowski, an assistant professor of biology, has received a Young Investigator Award in Molecular Studies of Evolution, sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the National Science Foundation. Sneigowski, is one of five award recipients. Each of these three-year awards totals $100,000 to "be deployed in the most effective manner to support a developing research career and to assist the transition to traditional research project funding."
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Brain imaging detects desire
The striking of a match or the nervous patter of addicts preparing for a drug buy are powerful enough images to set off a series of cerebral reactions of desire. So Anna Rose Childress, Ph.D., grabbed a camcorder and filmed homespun mini-movies of such behavior, showing the tapes to her study subjects and seeing what went on in their brains. Her results map out some of the most basic elements of desire, demonstrating the flow of blood to "hot spots" in the brain that cause heightened arousal and trigger the urge to use.
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U. takes fresh approach to dining
Student food plans will be simpler next year and include weekend dining, to reflect student preferences. Dining Services effected the changes as part of a major overhaul announced March 19 by the Office of Business Services of how Penn serves up food. Student lifestyle dictated some of the changes, said Marie Witt, associate vice president for business services. "Breakfast is not a very popular meal anymore," Witt said. "A lunch in between classes, a dinner and then a late-night option is really what students are choosing."
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Program teaches inner-city mothers and sons to reduce their health risks
Some of the best HIV prevention programs in the country are here in Philadelphia. And the source of those programs is the School of Nursing and Loretta Sweet Jemmott, Ph.D., FAAN (GNu'82/Gr'87).
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Who we'll miss most when "Seinfeld" ends
After nine years of New York angst with Jerry, George, Kramer, Elaine, even Nnnnewman, they’re leaving us -- except, of course, in reruns, where they’ll live in perpetuity. Who will we mourn the most, we wondered, when they exist only on the great rerun network in the sky?
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Wills makes case for public arts support
Is there a case to be made for continued government support for the arts and humanities? Yes, according to noted author-scholar-critic Garry Wills. But it's not the case most supporters of government arts funding make.
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Rick Beeman
The biggest regret Rick Beeman, Ph.D. , has about his new post as dean for undergraduate education and director of the College, is that he no longer has time to take his Bernese mountain dog, Chief Justice John Marshmallow (Johnny) to doggy play group near Swarthmore College. But Beeman has a solution: In the morning, he asks Johnny if he wants to go to work, and if he jumps in the car, off to work they go. A similar sense of fun invades Beeman's teaching style -- he's been known to dress as Davy Crockett for his crowd-pleasing history lessons.