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Two from Penn Win Marshall, Rhodes Scholarships
PHILADELPHIA-- Two University of Pennsylvania students have won two of the country's most prestigious scholarships.Brett Shaheen, a senior from St. Louis, Mo., has been named a Rhodes Scholar, and Aziza Zakhidova, a senior from McKinney, Texas, has won a Marshall Scholarship. Only 32 Rhodes Scholarships and 40 Marshall Scholarships are awarded nationally each year.
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The Post-Katrina Debacle: It Won't Be the Last Time
WASHINGTON - The U.S. is in for a repeat of the post-Katrina debacle unless there is a fundamental re-thinking of national policy dealing with all kinds of risky events. Experts in risk, preparedness, rapid recovery, loss reduction and disaster management will gather here Dec. 1 to identify the future risks the country is most likely to face, the policy strategies for dealing with them and a governance system to make the strategies work. (A full list of conference participants is at the bottom of this release.)
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East campus update
Imagine tossing a Frisbee with friends at a sparkling new Penn-owned park along the Schuylkill River. To the east, the Center City skyline soars. To the north, a row of sidewalk cafés attracts students and city residents alike along a rebuilt Walnut Street. And the Schuylkill Expressway—which has blocked University City residents from the waterfront for decades—is nowhere to be seen.
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Public designThe award-winning international architecture firm Fumihiko Maki + Associates, responsible for The Sam Fox Arts Center at the Washington University in St. Louis and Tokyo University General Learning Center, among other projects, has been tapped to design the new Annenberg Public Policy Center building, which will be located on 36th Street between Locust Walk and Walnut Street. Groundbreaking is scheduled for May of 2006 and an opening is expected in the spring of 2008.
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Lisbeth Dennis
WHO SHE IS: Jewish Student Life Coordinator, Penn Hillel at Steinhardt Hall TIME AT PENN: Two months WHAT SHE DOES: Dennis helps students with Jewish programming, from Holocaust education to social events like Hannukah parties. A lot of what Hillel does is very student focused so students come to us and we assist them, says Dennis. My job is as busy as the students make it.
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Trivia at the pub
Quick—who wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, “Tales of the South Pacific?” What was the 1980s movie with the tagline, “If you can’t get a date, make one?” Who holds the baseball record for the highest lifetime batting average? If you love trivia but are tired of yelling at a TV screen, saddle up to the New Deck Tavern on Monday and Wednesday nights from 10 p.m. to midnight for Quizo (sometimes called Quizzo, with two z’s), the popular general trivia game played in the comfort of your neighborhood bar.
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Building the Business of Biotech: Penn's Vagelos Program In Life Sciences and Management
PHILADELPHIA -- To meet the mounting intellectual demands of a rapidly evolving industry, the University of Pennsylvania is introducing the Roy and Diana Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management, a program that draws upon Penn's expertise in both science and business to train the next generation of biotech scholars and leaders.
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Second-term blues?
What happens to presidents in their second term? In recent memory, plenty. Nixon faced Watergate. Reagan coped with Iran-Contra. Clinton had Monica. Even before that, FDR’s plan to pack the courts with judges friendly to his New Deal plan failed, while Eisenhower’s Chief of Staff Sherman Adams was forced to resign in 1958.
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Talking about youth and aging
Penn is known as a place where interdisciplinary study flourishes. Still, it’s rare to find a pediatrician sharing research with an art history professor or a nutritionist debating a point with a Wharton management expert. Audiences were treated to an afternoon of such chatter Nov. 4 when scholars from all 12 schools took part in a Faculty Senate sponsored symposium on “Youth & Aging.”
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Solving Penn's two-wheel parking problem
The recent SEPTA strike had many Penn staffers mulling over other ways to get to work. For those who dusted off the old Schwinn in the garage and took to the bicycle lanes, the experience may have proved an eye opener. After sharing the road with more-impatient-than-ever commuters, finding a safe place to stow their bikes on campus was hardly a walk in the park either.