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Public designThe award-winning international architecture firm Fumihiko Maki + Associates, responsible for The Sam Fox Arts Center at the Washington University in St. Louis and Tokyo University General Learning Center, among other projects, has been tapped to design the new Annenberg Public Policy Center building, which will be located on 36th Street between Locust Walk and Walnut Street. Groundbreaking is scheduled for May of 2006 and an opening is expected in the spring of 2008.
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WHO SHE IS: Jewish Student Life Coordinator, Penn Hillel at Steinhardt Hall TIME AT PENN: Two months WHAT SHE DOES: Dennis helps students with Jewish programming, from Holocaust education to social events like Hannukah parties. A lot of what Hillel does is very student focused so students come to us and we assist them, says Dennis. My job is as busy as the students make it.
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Quick—who wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, “Tales of the South Pacific?” What was the 1980s movie with the tagline, “If you can’t get a date, make one?” Who holds the baseball record for the highest lifetime batting average? If you love trivia but are tired of yelling at a TV screen, saddle up to the New Deck Tavern on Monday and Wednesday nights from 10 p.m. to midnight for Quizo (sometimes called Quizzo, with two z’s), the popular general trivia game played in the comfort of your neighborhood bar.
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What happens to presidents in their second term? In recent memory, plenty. Nixon faced Watergate. Reagan coped with Iran-Contra. Clinton had Monica. Even before that, FDR’s plan to pack the courts with judges friendly to his New Deal plan failed, while Eisenhower’s Chief of Staff Sherman Adams was forced to resign in 1958.
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Penn is known as a place where interdisciplinary study flourishes. Still, it’s rare to find a pediatrician sharing research with an art history professor or a nutritionist debating a point with a Wharton management expert. Audiences were treated to an afternoon of such chatter Nov. 4 when scholars from all 12 schools took part in a Faculty Senate sponsored symposium on “Youth & Aging.”
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The recent SEPTA strike had many Penn staffers mulling over other ways to get to work. For those who dusted off the old Schwinn in the garage and took to the bicycle lanes, the experience may have proved an eye opener. After sharing the road with more-impatient-than-ever commuters, finding a safe place to stow their bikes on campus was hardly a walk in the park either.
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In May of 1935, 16 Penn coeds made the trek down to the Schuylkill River, piled into a shell and made University history: They were the first women ever to row for Penn. It was an exciting time for Penn women, as the University also had recently announced coeds—previously relegated to intramural sports only—would be permitted to compete against other area colleges in such sports as field hockey and basketball. But it was the women rowers who caught the attention of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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PHILADELPHIA University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann got the surprise of her Penn life when, at a dinner for students and scholarship donors, Penn Trustee George Weiss handed her an envelope on which he had written, "Have a nice day, Amy!" Inside was a check for $14 million, earmarked for one of Gutmann passions, undergraduate financial aid.Visibly moved, Gutmann summed up the significance of the moment.
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PHILADELPHIA -- The renowned British architect David Chipperfield has been selected to develop a comprehensive new master plan to take the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, its complex historical building and its international research, collections and educational outreach into the 21st century.Chipperfield was selected following an international search by a committee of representatives of Penn Museum's Board of Overseers and staff, Penn's School of Design and Division of Facilities and Real Estate Services.
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PHILADELPHIA -- In "The Gift of Education: How a Tuition Guarantee Program Saved the Lives of Inner City Youth," Norman Newberg describes how the chance-of-a-lifetime gift of free college tuition and the pressure to use it changed the lives of 112 seventh-grade students from one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods.Newberg is a senior fellow in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.