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Performers from down the street and Down Under
Who's dropping in at "The World Cafe" over the next two weeks? Among the musical notables host David Dye will welcome are singer-songwriters Trish Murphey (Wednesday, Jan. 14), Alanah Davis (Friday, Jan. 23) and John Hiatt (Monday, Jan. 26), jazz legend Grover Washington Jr. (Monday, Jan. 19), former Smithereens lead singer Pat Denizio (Tuesday, Jan. 20), Australian band Eva Trout (Thursday, Jan. 22) and Portuguese world/classical group Madradeus (Tuesday, Jan.
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Administrative Appointments
Richard R. Beeman, Ph.D., professor of history, has been named associate dean for Undergraduate Education and director of the College, effective Jan. 1.
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Racism and athletes' misdeeds
On average, we read about two athletes a week getting in trouble with the law -- drugs, alcohol, violence in games, and especially violence against women. In many of those stories, we read about how the institution of pro sports is breeding lawless men who care nothing about social norms or their society and community, but only about themselves.
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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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Roadside Fossil Find Provides Key to the Development of Limbs in Animals
PHILADELPHIA --- Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia have discovered dramatic new evidence of how arms and legs developed from the fins of ancient fish. The evidence was discovered in a rock found in a pile of boulders lying along a busy highway in north-central Pennsylvania.The scientists reported their findings in the Jan. 8 issue of Nature.
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Alum's Moving Documentary Played at IH
An award-winning film at International House caught our eye. Annenberg School of Communication alumna Nilita Vachani documents the life of a domestic worker who struggles to support her own children in Sri Lanka by taking care of someone else's child in Greece. First prize winner at the Festival dei Popoli in Florence, an important documentary film festival, "When Mother Comes Home for Christmas" was screened at numerous international festivals before arriving at Annenberg Feb. 19.