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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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Outreach to youth is more than just social work
Janice Ferebee's been down, but she came back, and now she's got it goin' on all over the place. Her mother's inspiration and her own personal setbacks have spurred the social work master's candidate and W.E.B. DuBois College House graduate fellow to devote her life to boosting teenagers' self-confidence and giving them the strength they need to resist the temptations of life in the 'hood.
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University secretary named
Rosemary McManusThe new secretary of the University will be Rosemary McManus, vice president for housing impact at Fannie Mae's northeastern regional office in Philadelphia. Fannie Mae is the nation's largest source of home mortgage money. McManus will take over March 16, succeeding Interim Secretary Barbara Lowery, who will continue in her regular post as associate provost.
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Landlords: good, bad and ugly
A new survey of local landlords will soon help university people who want to live near campus. Developed by the student-run Penn Consumers Board, the survey will reveal who the really good -- and really bad -- landlords are in the neighborhood.
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Get out, get fit, have fun
Penn's Recreation Department is not just for students. Besides running Penn's intramural and club sport programs, the department offers fitness programs and classes for faculty, staff and community residents, young and old alike. Most of the classes offered by Recreation are full-semester programs, but there are also mini-classes that begin in March. Next month's course offerings include:
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Topped off at Sansom Common
The recent "topping out" ceremony at Sansom Common attracted dozens of onlookers from across the University, celebrating the placement of the last steel beam on top of the building. With construction on time and within budget, the ceremony Feb. 12 launched the final phase of construction for the $120 million, 300,000 square-foot retail, dining, hotel and residential complex. Construction began Aug. 1, 1997.
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Thouron Scholars named
Six University students and seven students from universities in the United Kingdom were recently named 1998 Thouron Scholars.
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A salute to Mr. Lincoln
THE UNIVERSITY WIND ENSEMBLE joins in the spirit of this year's Penn Reading Project with President Judith Rodin reading Carl Sandburg's poetic tribute to Abraham Lincoln. The poem, incorporated into Aaron Copland's "Lincoln Portrait," is part of an "all-Lincoln" program celebrating the Wind Ensemble's 20th anniversary.