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Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorm of Thailand is greeted by two members of her 30-person delegation, (left to right) Siam University President Pormchai Mongkhovanit and National Education Council of Thailand Secretary-General Rung Kaedwang, as she arrives at the Inn at Penn for the second U.S.-Thailand Education Policy Roundtable on April 8. The summit, hosted by Penn’s Graduate School of Education and sponsored by the Starr Foundation, brought top American and Thai education officials together to discuss math and science teaching and higher education.
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How is Johnny doing in calculus? Not as well as he could be, according to Mathematics Professor Dennis DeTurck. In a Provost’s Lecture Series talk April 12, DeTurck explained why calculus matters and gave a history of efforts to improve math teaching in elementary and secondary schools.
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Dear Benny,Does Franklin Field host any events besides football games and the Penn Relays? What’s the average attendance at Franklin Field events? And why was the Army-Navy game played there? — Curious Researcher Dear Curious, Whew! Your grab bag of questions took Benny to several sources, starting with Dave Johnson, the Penn Relays director, and a good source for Franklin Field history .
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Nick Montfort wants you to know about a world of fiction and computers intricately balanced to create an experience as old as literature and as new as the modern age. In his book, “Twisty Little Passages” (MIT, 2003), Montfort, a Ph.D. student in computer and information science, explores this esoteric realm known to its aficionados as interactive fiction.
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The story of black professional baseball is one of entrepreneurs, fans, players and opportunities. As Neil Lanctot shows us in “Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution,” the history of this once-major enterprise provides a remarkable window into America’s past. Baseball functioned as a critical component in the separate economy catering to black consumers in the urban centers of the North and South.
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Steven Hahn did not set out to become a historian. “I was always sort of interested in it, and was good at it, but I wasn’t a history buff at all,” said Penn’s Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of History. “When I went to college, initially I wanted to be an astronautical engineer. I found out before I even got to college that this was probably not the best choice for me.”
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A big apple for the teacher: Perhaps the greatest testament to Dennis DeTurck’s reputation as a teacher is the presence of so many of his present and former students at his recent lecture on math education (see “Education”). They made up about one-third of the roughly 75 people who filled Houston Hall’s Ben Franklin Room.
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To show how much they appreciate the work of their volunteers, senior staff at the Penn Museum served them at a lunch in their honor April 12 in the Upper Egyptian Gallery. Here, Associate Director of Programs Gillian Wakely serves iced tea to Sam Nash, a volunteer in the Museum Applied Science Center for Archaeology who put in 739 hours of volunteer service in 2003.
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LITERARY LIFE/A distinguished author discusses a constantly shifting topic. According to novelist and essayist James Alan McPherson, most Americans are con artists, adopting multiple identities as their lives and desires change. The nature of those identities was a subject the Pulitzer Prize-winning author returned to often during his two-day visit to Penn April 19 and 20 as the last Kelly Writers House Fellow of the academic year.
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It’s not every venue that will take a chance on a local hip-hop act with no national following, an experimental ambient music series and a forum from the African People’s Solidarity Committee. Of course, the Rotunda is hardly every venue.