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Van Pelt's first floor ready for business
Speed. Comfort. Light. That's what has emerged so far from Van Pelt Library's first floor demolition. The brand new reference and study facilities add 44 desktop work stations and 56 laptop-accessible stations that mean high-speed access not only to Penn's holdings but to the catalogs of major research libraries around the world. For comfort, the new area seats 120 in spaces that include well-lit lounges and quiet study areas. The 30-foot cherrywood service desk custom-made by furniture designer Thomas Moser is giving, well, service.
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South African justice returns to learn from youths
"The wisdom of an adult can come from a child." Seventeen-year-old University City High School senior Victoria Arter furiously scribbled the heartfelt platitude into the notebook carefully poised on her lap, as South African Justice Yvonne Mokgoro addressed the room of wide-eyed, high school students Mokgoro, South Africa's first black female jurist who sits on the nation's Constitutional Court, spent time during a recent three-day stay in Philadelphia speaking with Penn faculty and law students.
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PENN Friends offers 'round-the-clock support to staff
You're a supervisor with a clinically depressed staff member. Not only do you have to decide how best to interact with the employee, but the rest of your staff needs education about appropriate responses to such behavior. Or, you've noticed your casual drinking has taken a turn toward excess and your job could be on the line if you continue the substance abuse. Maybe something great just happened, like your marriage or a job promotion, but it means drastic changes in the way you run your life.
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What we're reading and whether we like it
Most students questioned at the close of last semester either laughed uproariously at the thought of extracurricular reading during finals or ran hurriedly down Locust Walk emitting snarls and non-sequiturs at our man on the street. For those who did take enough study breaks last month to glance at something other than a textbook, they struggled to recall the names of the books, never mind names of the authors (we added them).
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More lessons in patient care
NBC news correspondent and author Betty Rollin spoke about nursing from the patient's point of view, relating her experiences as a breast cancer patient and as a caregiver to her dying mother, at the School of Nursing graduation ceremony Dec. 19.
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Buzz Bissinger prays for the city
Pulitzer Prize winner, best-selling author and Penn graduate Buzz Bissinger has vivid memories of the kinds of images and emotions a city should evoke, and they're not of lavish stage shows or Center City glitz or the posh retail and restaurant emporiums of Walnut Street. "I'm a product of cities; they're places that are alive, that when you're walking down the street, they're an onslaught upon the senses," Bissinger said. "And I do fear that's being lost."
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John Glick
For more than a decade, John Glick, M.D., has served as director of the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center. Last month he was named director of the newly established $100 million Leonard and Madlyn Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute within Penn's Cancer Center. "As a cancer survivor for 12 years, I understand the importance of patient-centered approaches in research and clinical activities," said Madlyn Abramson. "To that end, personalized and compassionate care will be the goal of all Abramson Institute efforts."
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Provost committee reports secondaryviolations in Marrow eligibility
The University, on Jan 2, self-reported violations of the NCAA Bylaws to the Ivy League, the result of a student-athlete practicing and playing in Penn football games this fall while not enrolled full-time. "A cardinal principle of [our] athletic programs is that participation in sports and games be strictly, in all respects, by the rules," said Provost Stanley Chodorow in his report to the Ivy League. "Penn strives to teach its athletes, from their first day on campus, that playing fairly is as important as playing well.
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Foreign exchange Nearly 3,000 of Penn's students come from other countries. That makes Penn 11th in foreign enrollments among U.S. research institutions, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported Dec. 12. The research institution with the highest number of foreign enrollments is Boston University, a school that actively recruits, followed by NYU and USC. In terms of percentages, Penn ranks fifth highest: 2,949 foreign students translates to 13.3 percent of students here. Tops in percentages is Columbia, followed by Harvard. Penn is second among U.S.
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SAS appoints new dean
After conducting a national search, the University named one of its own, Samuel H. Preston, Ph.D., as dean of the School of Arts and Sciences Dec. 18. Preston, the Frederick J. Warren Professor of Demography, known internationally for his population studies, has been on the faculty of the Department of Sociology since 1979, and is long-time director of the Population Studies Center here.