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Award-winning journalist Jim Lehrer will deliver Penn’s 246th Commencement address in May. Lehrer, 67, the executive editor and anchor of “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” on PBS, will discuss how current events, such as the Sept. 11 tragedies, have reshaped the world.
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The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania has appointed Victoria L. Rich chief nursing officer. Rich comes from University Community Hospital in Tampa, Fla., where she oversaw the pharmacy, laboratory, neurodiagnostics, emergency services and nursing unit. As a noted expert on patient safety, Rich will help HUP develop procedures to further clinical accuracy, professional responsiveness and compassion in all aspects of hospital service.
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It must be in the blood. Detective Philip Lydon Sr., and his son, Officer Philip Lydon Jr., are Penn heroes, keeping streets and homes safe and even giving the breath of life. The two recently received merit commendations, which recognize work above and beyond the call of duty, from Penn’s Division of Public Safety.
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A better way to recruit and retain faculty and a greater focus on graduate education—which could take the form of more stipends and benefits for graduate students—are among the academic priorities proposed for the University’s next five-year plan and unveiled by Provost Robert Barchi and Executive Vice President John Fry at a recent open forum, held at College Hall on Jan. 28. The plan, a new set of institutional, organizational and academic priorities, follows the “Agenda for Excellence,” the successful previous five-year plan.
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PHILADELPHIA An overwhelming majority of American youth believe religion is an important part of life.Eighty-six percent of Americans aged 11 to 18 believe that religion is an important part of their lives, according to a national survey of 2,004 randomly selected households done in 2000 by the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work. Researchers Ram Cnaan and Richard Gelles say that new-millennium American youth are very much like previous generations, despite some people views that today youth are less religious than previous generations.
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The folkways, fables, fabrics and food of Africa are the focus of the University of Pennsylvania Museum’s 13th annual Celebration of African Cultures on Saturday, Feb. 16.
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“For years we wasted land with impunity,” William H. Whyte writes in this classic work now returned to print. “Now we no longer can.” Called “the best study available on the problems of open space” by The New York Times when it first appeared in 1968, “The Last Landscape” introduced many cornerstone ideas for land conservation, urging all of us to make better use of the land that has survived amid suburban sprawl.
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When the news of historian Stephen Ambrose’s plagiarizing of History Professor Thomas Childers’ “Wings of Morning” broke on Jan. 4, Childers figured the brouhaha would die down in about a week. When we spoke with Childers in his College Hall office Jan. 25, he was still fielding calls from reporters and wading through oceans of e-mail.
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Mark Twain made the trip. So did P. T. Barnum. They, along with a slew of 19th century European travelers, could not resist the draw of Salt Lake City, Utah. The attraction? The Mormons and their many wives. But as Penn Professor of Law Sarah Gordon shows in her book, “The Mormon Question” (North Carolina, 2002), the Mormons’ practice of polygamy did more than just spark curiosity, jokes and gossip; it left a legacy in constitutional law and political theory that still governs religious life in America.
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Dear Benny, I’ve been at Penn for six years, and I still don’t know how my vacation time accumulates, or when I can use it. —Needs a Break Dear Needy, According to the Human Resources Policy Manual, if you have been employed at Penn in a year-round full-time position for at least five years, you receive two days paid time off each month. Part-time employees accumulate days off based on a percentage of the full-time rate.