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Seven hundred years after the Native American cliff dwellings now in Mesa Verde National Park were abandoned, they were showing signs of decay — plaster peeling, walls deteriorating. The challenge was to preserve what was left, using all-natural materials — a requirement of the Native American tribes of the Southwest, who venerate the early pueblo dwellings in southwestern Colorado as a sacred ancestral site. Frank Matero, chairman of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, has been working with teams of graduate students since 1993 on preserving the site.
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Mark F. Bernstein 336 pages, 28 b/w illustrations, $29.95 cloth Every autumn American football fans pack stadiums to root for their favorite teams. Most are unaware that this most popular American sport was created by the teams that now make up the Ivy League.
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“We can do better than that,” Judith Berkowitz (CW’64) thought to herself when she came across a sculpture celebrating 25 years of accomplishments by Yale women one day. We, meaning the women at Penn, who have been here for 125 years. This chance encounter came only days after Sandra Williamson (CW’63), a former chair of the Trustees’ Council of Penn Women, had approached her about heading the 125 Years of Women at Penn celebration. She agreed, of course.
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Like 21 other people, I was in a high-tech auditorium at the end of an ancient, marble-floored corridor in the School of Medicine one hot day in June, listening to a fast-talking, funny man tell me how to market my ideas. The talker was Seth Godin, author of “Unleashing the Idea Virus,” the most downloaded e-book on the Internet. Deepak Chopra could have taken a tip or two from Godin, so motivational, so inspirational was he. Larger than life, too, and almost like life, but not quite.
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The federal government’s recent dip into the Social Security surplus has refueled the anxiety many feel over their financial future. The following is an excerpt from remarks delivered by Wharton Professor Olivia Mitchell, a member of President Bush’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security, to her fellow commissioners July 19. Mitchell is International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor of Insurance and Risk Management.
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It may be hard to imagine Penn set in the countryside among barnyards and farmhouses. But for James Riggins, farm crop manager of the New Bolton Center in Chester County, Penn isn’t just about the hustle and bustle of Philadelphia. The Penn he sees, and has seen everyday for the past three decades, includes fields of corn, grazing cows and acres upon acres of pasture. With just a team of seven, Riggins oversees the 600 acres of land which belong to Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine.
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Richard James Gelles, the Joanne T. and Raymond B. Welsh Professor in Child Welfare and Family Violence and a leading theorist and researcher in the study of family violence, was named interim dean by the School of Social Work.
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PHILADELPHIA Michael Palladino, associate vice president of networking and telecommunications at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named the first recipient of the Leadership Award of the Association for Telecommunications Professionals in Higher Education. Addressing voice, data and video communications needs for higher education, the Association serves more than 800 institutions of higher education and 2,000 telecommunications professionals from the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
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WASHINGTON -- Tens of thousands of U.S., Mexican and Canadian children and youths become victims of juvenile pornography, prostitution and trafficking each year. So significant is the problem that even most law-enforcement and child-welfare officials do not realize its scope.
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PHILADELPHIA -- Afaf I. Meleis, PhD, FAAN, RN, an internationally acclaimed nurse and medical sociologist, has been named dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, Penn President Judith Rodin announced. She will begin her new position in January.