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Q&A/Penn Law professor by day, novelist by night, Kermit Roosevelt talks about his journey from literary rejection to being named 'The Next Big Thing.' Kermit Roosevelt wanted to be a philosopher. He ended up at Yale Law School instead. Once he got there, he felt mostly disappointment. Law school, he says, was too easy.
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Dear Benny, I have heard what is now Pennís Music Building, located along 33rd Street between Walnut and Spruce streets, was once an orphanage. Is that true? —Academic sleuth Dear history detective, Actually, it is true. Penn purchased the building now known as the Music Building, along with other property, in 1900 as part of a large-scale plan to create additional space for the rapidly growing University.
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"They're bringing a wealth of knowledge and a thoughtful approach to learning." When Kristine Billmyer joined Penn’s payroll more than 20 years ago she felt she had “just entered the gates of heaven.” Hired to teach English as a second language in the English Language Programs (ELP) division of CGS, Billmyer loved teaching. She also realized that Penn, with its strength in applied linguistics, was the perfect place to pursue her Ph.D.
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By THE CURRENT STAFF Ask Benny: What is the history of the Music Building? Out and About: Garden in the city
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This fall, we’ll see several new faces—and a few familiar ones—among the senior administration at Penn. Aside from Provost Ron J. Daniels, who began work in July, here are a few other new appointments: Vanda McMurtry will assume the position of vice president for government and community affairs on Oct. 1. McMurtry, who held a similar position at Cornell, will direct Penn’s relationship with federal, state and local governments as well as non-governmental groups at the community and national levels.
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There could hardly exist a more appropriate picture than the one at right, by Art Spiegelman, to publicize the 2005-6 Penn Humanities Forum on Word and Image. It’s fitting, too, that Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning artist and graphic novelist, will kick off the year with a Sept. 27 talk on the history of comics.
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When “Treasures of Tutankhamen” landed on American shores in the late 1970s, crowds eager to see the boy king’s tomb waited in line for hours. It was the first “blockbuster,” and it inspired a nationwide interest in Egypt. Even comedian Steve Martin was stirred by the exhibition, penning “King Tut,” a humorous ode to the mysterious boy king.
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PHILADELPHIA -- If you already have a little spring in your step, a team of biologists at the University of Pennsylvania would like to put it to good use by adding a few more springs in the form of a power-generating backpack. Details of their prototype "Suspended-load Backpack" were announced today in the journal Science. The device converts mechanical energy from walking into electricity up to 7.4 Watts more than enough energy to power a number of portable electronic devices at once.