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For shedding new light on plant behavior, Professor of Biology Anthony R. Cashmore has been honored with election to the National Academy of Sciences. Cashmore, director of Penn’s Plant Science Institute, studies the mechanisms by which plants respond to light. His 1990s research that identified cryptochrome, a plant photoreceptor that detects blue and ultraviolet light, has since been extended by others to animals. Cashmore came to Penn from the Rockefeller University in 1986.
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“The Sound of Philadelphia: Classical, Jazz and Pop on Records” is the theme of the 37th annual conference of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, which takes place in Houston Hall May 28-31. The opening reception will take place amidst an exhibition of 19th-century American sheet music in Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center’s Kamin Gallery. Panel discussion participants include Joe Tarsia, owner of the legendary Sigma Sound recording studio, and Cameo/Parkway Records producer-songwriter Dave Appell. Registration $150 for full conference, $60 for one day.
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As you read this, a group of Wharton MBA students are winding up the experience of a lifetime, and Professor of Management Michael Useem is completing one more lesson in leadership using an unorthodox case study. The experience and the case study are one and the same—the annual Wharton Leadership Ventures trek up Mt. Everest. Each spring for the past six years, Useem—an avid mountaineer—has led 15 to 20 MBA and Executive MBA students into the Himalayas to experience what he called “decision-making where it really makes a difference.”
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Summer’s coming, so it’s time for the Current to break out the shorts. Our two summer issues will be four-page affairs, published on June 12 and July 17. Deadlines for submitting story ideas are May 7 and June 4; events calendar deadlines are June 4 and July 9. We will take August off completely and resume our regular publication schedule on Sept. 4. You can find our publication schedule online at www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/2003/schedule.html. Have a great summer!
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Images of Beijing residents shielded behind face masks have now become a familiar sight on the nightly news. This phenomenon, along with the beating suffered by Asian economies, took root as news of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) began to spread. But some Penn experts say the reaction to SARS, which they link to the media’s alarmist coverage of the disease, have been overblown.
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If, a few decades hence, people elsewhere speak of Philadelphia as a great literary town, we can credit Kerry Sherin Wright (C’87), among others, for the transformation. The chemical engineering-turned-religious studies major was not one of those present at the creation of the Kelly Writers House. Nevertheless, she has left a deep imprint on the place that has become the epicenter of a burgeoning citywide creative-writing community in its eight years of existence.
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“A Natural History of the Romance Novel”
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And the winners are… First, a great big Thank You to all 259 faculty, staff and students who filled out our survey as of press time, readers and non-readers alike. Your feedback will help us serve you better. But that’s not the real reason you filled out the survey, is it? So without further ado, here are the lucky prize winners: Dinner at the White Dog Café and Black Cat gift certificate: Barbara Brooks, staff assistant, Genetics
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This year’s graduating class entered Penn during a time of peace. They leave it to venture out into a time of conflict, with international tensions much in the news. It is perhaps appropriate, then, that the speaker at Penn’s 247th Commencement is a man whose work helped end the violence of the fight against apartheid in South Africa, 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu.