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STAFF Q & A/Accomodating the honorary degree recipients is a breeze, says Alison McGhie. After talking with Alison McGhie C’91,GEd’92, the woman who shepherds Penn’s honorary degree recipients through Commencement, we couldn’t help but think: Other event coordinators would probably kill for a job like this. Tales of prima donnas with outlandish demands? She had none. Snafus that arose at the last minute? None of those either—at least not yet; she has only been handling logistics for the Commencement honorees for three years now.
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BACCALAUREATE CEREMONY: Speaker: Dr. Jaroslav Pelikan, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale. 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. for students whose last names begin with A-K, 3 to 4 p.m. for students whose last names begin with L-Z, in Irvine Auditorium, 34th and Spruce streets. School Ceremonies WHARTON UNDERGRADUATE/EVENING: Speaker: Amal Devani, C’04, W’04, Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business. 9 a.m. in Franklin Field.
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This summer, as the world watches the Summer Olympics in Athens, Philadelphians can ponder the unique bond between their city and that paragon of the ancient world. Professor of the History of Art, Lothar Haselberger explored this connection May 1 during the annual Hellenic University Club of Philadelphia Symposium at the Penn Museum.
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Included in this special report: Judith Rodin: Her decade at Penn Excerpts from a decade of discourse on the issues that mattered.
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Dear Benny,I read with interest the story about the Iraqi museum curators who came to Penn to look at the “Royal Tombs of Ur” exhibit. What portion of the Museum’s collection of objects from Ur is on display? How many of the finds from the 1922-1934 excavations are in the Museum’s collection? Are any of these on permanent display, or will they be? — Fascinated by Finds
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A sharper image Attendees at an April 29 symposium sponsored by the Franklin Institute and Penn Health System’s Department of Radiology got a crash course in the history of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and how it’s used at Penn. The real draw, though, was MRI’s inventor, Raymond Damadian, who was recently—some say scandalously—passed over for the Nobel Prize.
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Penn President Judith Rodin CW’66 became the first woman to receive the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce’s William Penn Award. The award recognizes business leaders whose professional and community contributions have enriched the region. Rodin, who received the award in late April, was credited with revitalizing University City while raising Penn’s standards and following through on her commitment to improve the region’s public schools.
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Best of seven: A round of applause, please, for Shani Boston C’07, the second member of the Penn women’s track team ever to win a Penn Relays event. Boston took the heptathlon medal at the 110th Relays April 21 with a total score of 5,049 points, 40 more than the second-place finisher, teammate Kai Ivory C’04. Boston joins Frances Childs C’88, who also won the heptathlon in 1988, in this most exclusive sorority.
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The convergence of tools, money and technology make this the most important period of scientific discovery since the Renaissance, said writer and journalist Stephen S. Hall in a talk at The Wistar Institute on May 4.