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STAFF Q&A/Twenty years after leaving college to start a family, Isabel Boston took a job at Penn—and soon started the long journey of finishing her degree. “I thought I’d be a fool not to do it.” Ask Isabel Boston what it’s like to go back to college after a 20-year absence—taking Ivy League courses in everything from Medieval music to Latin while also balancing a husband, five kids, and a day job—and she’ll tell you: It’s really hard.
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WHO SHE IS: Accounting Clerk, Department of Transportation and Parking YEARS AT PENN: 12. Parker started her Penn career as a temporary employee.
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Taking up residence from May 12 through June 5 in the ICEBOX Project Space—a new visual arts gallery in Fishtown—is a collection that includes hand-cut paper mandalas, a light-based installation and, at right, the delicate charcoal work, “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” by Phillip Adams. Intrigued? You should be, since this is the work of recent Penn MFA recipients. Work by 19 emerging artists—selected by Institute of Contemporary Art Senior Curator Ingrid Schaffner—is feaured in the show, including painting, video and performance, photographs and sculptures.
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We’ve been hearing about the “Postal Lands” for a while now, and finally, next spring, the University will officially acquire the 24 acres of real estate that stretches between the campus and the river and includes the 30th Street Post Office Building and Postal Annex. Taking possession of the Postal Lands is a very big deal, says Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli, who, with Provost Ron Daniels, heads up the Campus Development Planning Committee.
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Beginning in the 1920s, Penn’s female students welcomed in spring with dancing, song and the crowning of a May Queen. The May Day tradition is no longer in practice, but in its heyday, the celebration included a procession, dancing, pantomime—which the women’s student newspaper, Bennett News, called “a whimsical affair”—and, finally, the crowning of the queen whose identity was “cloaked in mystery” until the celebrations of May Day.
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PHILADELPHIA -- Four professors at the University of Pennsylvania are among the 195 members of the 2006 Class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1780, the Academy is an independent policy research center that brings together scholars, scientists, artists and civic, corporate and philanthropic leaders to study complex and emerging problems.
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Top Stories Penn’s annual impact? $9.6B, report says Fischl on the body
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Top Stories Ask Benny: What's the oldest tree on campus?
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RESEARCH/A Penn professor has found a way to deliver two effective cancer drugs to tumors at the same time. Taxol and doxorubicin are two of the most commonly used—and most effective—cancer drugs available to doctors today.
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Q&A/The Director of Penn’s Master of Science Program in Criminology talks about working with former Attorney General Janet Reno and what drew her to criminology in the first place. “It was hard and stressful in many ways, but it was kind of a golden time.”