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A professor who teaches a class on ethics and technology sees the issues around Napster a little differently than his students do. But both say Napster deserves to survive. “While it’s primarily used right now for copyright violation, it’s a general-purpose tool for sharing information across a large number of computers,” said RCA Professor of Artificial Intelligence Mitchell Marcus. “Software that allows peer-to-peer sharing of information across large networks will actually be important for uses that are legitimate.”
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Just because some famous person lifted material from a classmate’s paper when in college doesn’t mean it’s OK to plagiarize. And though it may cost in the short run, in the end, ethical behavior is its own reward. These are some of the messages that will be delivered by scholars, researchers, and a noted whistle-blower during Academic Integrity Week, which begins Monday, Oct. 23. And this year, it’s not just a Penn observance. Mayor John Street has proclaimed a citywide observation and will present a copy of the proclamation to President Judith Rodin on Friday, Oct. 27.
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David Goodhand (C’85) and Vincent Griski (W’85) left Penn with more than a good education. They left with each other, and with fond memories of the place where they met — a place where they both say they felt comfortable and supported as gay men. Now, 15 years out, the couple is returning that support in a big way. On Oct. 11, during the National Coming Out Day rally on Penn Commons, Goodhand and Griski announced that they were donating $2 million to the University for a new home for the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Center.
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Steve Garlinger never considered himself the academic type. “When I was in high school, I took a trade-prep course in carpentry,” he said. “I was into the practical part, but not the book part. I did just enough bookwork to pass my courses and get out of there.” Now, after a stint in the Army, two jobs and three decades, he’s found out he was wrong about himself, much to his delight. And it happened purely by chance.
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Two Penn professors have won prestigious David and Lucile Packard Foundation Awards, giving them each a grant of $625,000 for their research, which has included Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia. Packard selected them and 22 others as the “most promising science and engineering researchers at universities in the United States.”
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PHILADELPHIA- Ari Alexander, a senior at the University of Pennsylvania, is among 40 American students to win one of the nation's highest undergraduate honors, the 2001 Marshall Scholarship. The British Marshall Scholarship funds two years of graduate study in the United Kingdom. More than 1000 students applied for the scholarship this year.
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We all know what tango is about. It’s that sultry Latin dance form that’s all about seduction, jealousy and the tension between men and women, right?
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Affluent people have a moral responsibility to work to raise wages and end poverty. So said Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author and lecturer Barbara Ehrenreich before a rapt College Hall audience Sept. 21. Based on that premise Ehren-reich issued a clarion call to action in her talk “Down and Out in Post-Welfare America” — this year’s Judith Roth Berkowitz Endowed Lectureship in Women’s Studies. But first, she examined the moral messages behind welfare reform.
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Ah, the four branches of government: executive, legislative, judicial — and lawyers. Lawyers? Okay, so they’re not mentioned explicitly in the Constitution. But according to Walter E. Dellinger III’s Sept. 26 lecture, entitled “The Supreme Court and the Presidency,” the world of lawyers — whether it be lawyerly thought processes guiding presidents’ actions or attorneys litigating behind the scenes — exerts a strong influence on the way the country is run.
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A piece of lint may hold the key to faster computers, cooler motors and more heat-resistant aircraft. But first, scientists have to get the lint in line. Needless to say, this is no ordinary lint. The stuff we’re talking about here contains hundreds of thousands of nanotubes — cylinders of pure carbon about 1/10,000th the width of a human hair. Scientists experimenting with these tiny tubes have already discovered their incredible strength and their superior electrical conductivity. Now, Penn scientists have found that they’re excellent heat conductors, too.