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Margaret Ann Morris’ mother, now 75 years old, was ill and was living by herself in a big house up in Binghamton, N.Y. Morris is the associate editor of Almanac, the weekly publication of the Faculty Senate. Efforts to get her mother to face the issues and make some decisions were frustrating. “There were days we were tearing our hair out,” Morris said. “We couldn’t get my mother to move on anything.”
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A tip of the hat to our graduating students, all of whom deserve praise for their achievement. But we found a few who managed to express their gratitude — or their creativity — on their caps.
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A pair of recent Penn grads have just snagged two brand-new study-abroad fellowships. This fall, Bart Szewczyk (W’01), of Guttenberg, N.J., and Amanda Codd (C’01), of Morrisville, Pa., will join the inaugural class of Gates Scholars — 40 to 50 Americans in all, plus several hundred from around the world — studying at the University of Cambridge in England with a full scholarship from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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PHILADELPHIA A University of Pennsylvania professor is teaching troubled boys to control their aggression through basketball, martial arts and cultural pride. Howard Stevenson, an associate professor in Penn Graduate School of Education and director of the program, has helped more than 150 youngsters at Philadelphia E.S. Miller School during the past three years. Stevenson has found that through the mentoring program violent behavior declined dramatically.
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PHILADELPHIA The University of Pennsylvania Library and Northern Light Technology Inc. have created an information-rich portal for Penn 248,000 alumni. The Alumni & Friends Library portal is located at www.library.upenn.edu/portal.
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The Center for Advanced Jewish Studies fellows knew what they were getting into when they called their annual colloquium meeting to order. It seemed like everybody else knew, too. “This meeting will be illuminating, perhaps contentious, but of course we all know that’s a good thing,” said SAS Associate Dean Rebecca Bushnell in her opening remarks.
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Maureen Rush, chief of police of the Penn Police Department for the past five years, was appointed the new vice president for public safety for the University May 8. Rush has been serving in that position in an interim capacity since last October.
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PHILADELPHIA Students graduating from the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science next week will have a much more advanced means of communicating their sentiments than the traditional masking tape atop mortarboards: As each one passes onto the stage to receive a diploma, the scan of a personalized bar code will bring onto a giant overhead screen a web site displaying the student name, hometown and personal comments.
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The following is excerpted from a brief delivered to the U.S. Congress by Graduate School of Education Professor Raymond P. Lorion. Lorion is chair of the Psychology in Education Division. In defining “violence”, I include among its victims individuals physically hurt by an act of violence; witnesses of such acts; family members, friends and other associates of the above two groups; and occupants of settings who are aware of and anxious about such acts.
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Dennis Culhane, associate professor of social welfare policy, knows social problems can be expensive to solve. That’s why many of them go unsolved. But he recently found one social problem that costs the same to fix as to ignore. The problem in question is homelessness among people with severe mental illness. And since the solution for such people entails not only finding them housing but providing mental health services as well, it’s not surprising that for years, most politicians believed it would be much cheaper just to do nothing.