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Charles Bernstein’s collaboration on “Shadowtime” got us thinking about other international projects Penn faculty are involved in this summer. Here’s a sampling of what some of them are up to: Vicki Mahaffey, professor of English, is in London, editing a book of essays on James Joyce’s “Dubliners,” and working at the British Library to complete a book, “Challenging Fictions: An Introduction to Literary Modernism, 1890-1940.”
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Ask Benny: Tell me, is this public art or something else?
Dear Benny, What are the two structures outside of the Facilities building (at 3160 Chestnut St.) near the field? One looks like some sort of a tennis referee stand and the other is a recent concrete addition that looks like an inverted “L.”— Not Sure What I’m Looking At
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Toy story
Charles and Ray Eames are best known for the high-quality, low-cost furniture and architecture that made them two of the most important designers of the 20th century. But they were also groundbreaking filmmakers and toy designers who found beauty in the everyday. The exhibit “Whimsical Works,” which opens at the Arthur Ross Gallery on July 22, is devoted to their lesser-known passion for play things.
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Mayors: Cooperation key to civic success
If it’s true that all politics is local, then urban mayors are among the most powerful politicians in the country.
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Computerworld Names Penn to Annual List of Best Places to Work in Information Technology
PHILADELPHIA -- Computerworld has selected the University of Pennsylvania as No. 8 of the top work places for information technology professionals in America and as the top workplace for IT professionals in the Mid-Atlantic states. This honor is part of the weekly IT publication's 12th annual Best Places to Work in IT survey, which was published in the June 27 issue and online at Computerworld.com.
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Extra-large "Atoms" Allow Penn Physicists to Solve the Riddle of Why Things Melt
PHILADELPHIA -- Physicists at the University of Pennsylvania have experimentally discovered a fundamental principle about how solid materials melt. Their studies have shown explicitly that melting begins at defects within the crystalline structure of solid matter, beginning along the cracks, grain boundaries and dislocations that are present in the otherwise orderly array of atoms.
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Three Penn Researchers Receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
PHILADELPHIA -- Three researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have been named among 58 of the nation's most promising young scientists and engineers by President Bush with the 2004 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Marija Drndic, of Penn's School of Arts and Sciences and Tejvir Khurana and Kevin G. Volpp, both of Penn's School of Medicine, were honored at a ceremony June 13 at the White House.
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South African ESL Educators at Penn for Institute on AIDS Awareness, Entrepreneurship and Civics
PHILADELPHIA-- More than two dozen educators in English as a second language from South Africa are participating in a six-week summer training program at the University of Pennsylvania to design curricula and classroom materials that combine the teaching of English with instructional content in areas of critical importance to South Africa: AIDS awareness, entrepreneurship and civic education. These content areas figure in a national plan for curriculum reform known as Curriculum 2005. A secondary goal of the Institute is to broaden participants' understanding of the U.S.
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Big Bandwidth for Big Ideas: The Franklin Institute Connects to Internet2 via Penn's MAGPI
PHILADELPHIA -- The Franklin Institute Science Museum,much visited by Philadelphia area school children, has recently become a destination for visitors across the globe through Internet2, a high-speed network designed for research and education. The connection was made possible by the University of Pennsylvania, a founding member of the Internet2 consortium and operator of the regional Internet2 connector, or GigaPoP, known as MAGPI, the Mid-Atlantic GigaPoP in Philadelphia for Internet2.