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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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WHO:Eighteen midshipmen from the University of Pennsylvania NROTC unit, which includes students from Penn and Drexel and Temple universities, guest military speakers and hundreds of on-looking family members.WHAT:In a time-honored military ceremony, the midshipmen will get ensign and lieutenant bars and officially become officers in the Navy and Marine Corps.WHEN:May 15, 2002, at 2 p.m.WHERE:Battleship USS New Jersey, Camden WaterfrontMore than 300 family members and guests are expected to be in attendance on
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PHILADELPHIA -- Through the cycads and gingkoes of the floodplains, not far from the Sundance Sea, strode the 50-foot-long Suuwassea, a plant-eating dinosaur with a whip-like tail and an anomalous second hole in its skull destined to puzzle paleontologists in 150 million years. According to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, Suuwassea emilieae (pronounced SOO-oo-WAH-see-uh eh-MEE-LEE-aye) is a smaller relative of Diplodocus and Apatosaurus and is the first named sauropod dinosaur from the Jurassic of southern Montana.
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New school journal Those who care about urban education have a new online resource, “Perspectives on Urban Education.” Created by the Graduate School of Education, the electronic journal carries feature-length articles, reports of studies in progress, reviews and commentaries on issues affecting today’s urban school districts. The journal also gives readers the chance to respond directly to authors via email.