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Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham’s latest book, “Specimen Days,” is really three novellas linked by several common characters—a young boy, an older man and a young woman—and the American poet Walt Whitman. Sound like an ambitious work? Well, Cunningham has done it before. His novel “The Hours,” for which he won both the PEN/Faulkner Award and Pulitzer Prize, seamlessly tied together the lives of three women and Virginia Woolf’s seminal work, “Mrs.
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Staff Q&A: Andrew Zitcer
Andrew Zitcer’s charge as Penn’s Cultural Asset Manager is to look after the real estate in Penn’s portfolio that don’t fall under the traditional headings of commercial, residential or retail spaces.These include The Rotunda, a community performing arts venue that Zitcer, a Penn alum, wrote undergraduate and graduate theses about; the Slought Foundation art gallery; internationally renowned artist Osvaldo Romberg’s studio; the newly relocated Scribe Video Center; the 40th Street artist-in-residency program and The Cinema, programmed with community events and film screenings.
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Nurses need to know how to ‘walk both worlds’
MUSIC/A School of Nursing course teaches future nurse practitioners how to navigate the world of alternative and complementary medicine. Whether it’s black cohosh to quell hot flashes or yoga to soothe arthritis, more and more people are looking beyond the pharmacy shelves to cure what ails them.
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In Darfur, a war on the people
It’s been difficult to put an accurate number on the lives lost during the three-year conflict in Darfur, the western region of Sudan. Estimates from last year ranged from 70,000 to 300,000, though those numbers are little more than educated guesses. For Ali B. Ali-Dinar, outreach coordinator at Penn’s African Studies Center, the numbers are not the issue. His concern is for the people—including entire communities and villages—who have been displaced by the conflict in that region and forced to move to camps around the province.
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Stockholm Prize in Criminology Honors Achievements in Prevention of Re-offending
PHILADELPHIA- John Braithwaite of the Australian National University and Friedrich Losel of Cambridge University in the United Kingdom have been selected as the first winners of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology for their achievements in developing theory and evidence on the prevention of repeat offending. They will share the prize of one million Swedish kronor.
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Penn Creates Janet Reno Fellowship Fund to Support Criminology Master's Students
PHILADELPHIA - A new fellowship fund supporting University of Pennsylvania criminology master students and named in honor of former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno will be formally created at a University symposium on March 31.The establishment of the Janet Reno Fellowship Fund will be announced at an event at which Reno will speak, according to Lawrence W. Sherman, chair of the department of criminology, which is hosting the event.
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Who Is the Next Great Penn Inventor? Finalists Announced in Penn's Student-Inventor Contest
PHILADELPHIA -- Ten teams of student-inventors have made it to the finals in the University of Pennsylvania's PennVention contest. The teams, comprised of students from across campus, represent ingenuity and entrepreneurship of the sort that would have made Penn's founder, Ben Franklin, proud. The contest, held by Penn's Weiss Tech House, was created to help students develop, patent and commercialize their inventions. On April 7, the teams will compete for more than $50,000 in cash and prizes and a chance to bring their products to market.
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Penn Police Invite 270 City Youths to March 28 'PENN/PAL' Skating and Pizza Party
WHO: Approximately 270 youths ages 6-18 from 27 Police Athletic League centers throughout Philadelphia, along with their chaperones, will join police officers from the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Police Department, Penn students and other members of Penn's Division of Public Safety at a Penn/PAL skating party.Penn Vice President of Public Safety Maureen Rush and Penn Police Chief Mark Dorsey are scheduled to take part.
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Expert Comment on Adoption by Same-Sex Couples
Richard Gelles, dean of Penn School of Social Policy and Practice, is an expert on adoption and is the author of the federal Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997. He can comment for stories resulting from the new report by the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute on adoptions by same-sex couples and on stories related to opposition to the report.