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Childhood Memories Shape Analysis of City Woes
Tom Sugrue's fifth birthday party was interrupted when everyone went to the front porch to see the National Guard troops being driven down the street to quell the Detroit riots in 1967. For many of the next 30 years, Sugrue has been studying what brought about those events on that day. "My parents didn't let us go out and play in front of our house, and for a 5 year old, not being allowed in the front yard is a daunting experience," he says. "I didn't fully understand why. I just knew something bad was happening."
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EBONICS: Penn Linguist Talks about the Talk
In testimony before a U.S. Senate subcommittee last week, University of Pennsylvania Professor of Linguistics William Labov weighed in with his views and his expertise about the controversy stirred up when the Oakland, Calif., school board passed a resolution to use Ebonics to teach African-American students reading and writing.
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Penn-Spruce Hill Effort Wins Award
The "Spruce Hill Community Renewal Plan," a blueprint for the future of the neighborhood adjacent to the University of Pennsylvania, has received the Pennsylvania Planning Association's (PPA) top award for "comprehensive planning by a small community."
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In MLK Jr. Tradition, Butts Gives Rousing Keynote Speech
The Rev. Calvin O. Butts, who has fought for social justice while serving as pastor of New York's Abyssinian Baptist church, delivered a rousing keynote speech at the evening program for Martin Luther King Jr. Day at the Annenberg School theater, Monday, Jan. 20. Butts, who gained national attention for leading a successful campaign against liquor and tobacco ads targeted at African-American communities, leads one of the largest and most influential African-American churches in the country, and recently spoke out against rap music lyrics that promote violence and abuse of women.
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Penn Helps Fire Victims
When the residents of the Sherwood Court Apartments were driven from their homes by an arson fire six days before Christmas, the people of Penn joined in with their Spruce Hill neighbors to restore some cheer to the holiday. Director of Volunteer Services Bonnie Ragsdale and Community Relations Director Glenn Bryan delivered a van full of food, clothing and gifts for the holidays to the Spruce Hill Community Association's offices just before Christmas.
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Cypriots Cross Virtual Green Line on Penn Web Site
There are no borders in cyberspace, no armed guards to check your papers as you pass from one computer to another. Which is why people seeking to bridge divisions between peoples and reunite divided lands have taken to promoting their efforts on the Internet. One of these divided lands is Cyprus, where for over two decades ethnic Turks and Greeks have been separated by a "Green Line" of barbed wire and hostility. Not even the love of their country that both groups share has been able to overcome the collective mistrust between the two groups.
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This Nurse Means Business
Starting out as a nurse practitioner -- nope, no one starts out as a nurse practitioner. Everyone starts by being born. Starting out at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania as an infant, and returning to Penn as a post doc, School of Nursing Professor Barbara Medoff-Cooper became a nurse practitioner and a nurse researcher who is part of a business based on her research, is doing reasearch based on her business, and it's all related to babies.
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Star Struck: Physics Grows Astronomically
Growing up in a big city like Baltimore, Elizabeth Raun never got a really good look at the stars and heavens -- all those street lights obscuring the skies. It wasn't until she got to another big city, Philadelphia, and Penn, that she got a really good look at what's up there. And now is hooked. Raun, a math and economics major, is required to take a course in the physical sciences to fulfill her graduation requirements. With some trepidation, she took Astronomy 1, a course designed for non-science majors. It turned out to be a lot more fun than she thought.
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Water in the Desert: Penn Professor Leads International Effort
Water may be considered an inexhaustible resource because the total supply of water in the biosphere is not affected by human activities. Water is not destroyed by human uses, although it may be held for a time in combination with other chemicals. To be useful, however, water must be in a particular place and of a certain quality, and so it must be regarded as a renewable, and often scarce, resource, with recycling times that depend on its location and use. --The Encyclopedia Britannica
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This Old House Needs 150 Service Calls a Day
Down in the basement of the Franklin Building Annex is the latest tool in the never ending battle to save university buildings from decay. It is a midrange computer that thinks the whole university is its own old house -- an old house composed of 124 buildings built between 1872 and 1996 and used by 50,000 patrons any day of the week.