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RONALD J. DANIELS NAMED PROVOST AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

PHILADELPHIA -- Ronald J. Daniels, Dean of the Faculty of Law and the James M. Tory Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, has been named the 28th Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn President Amy Gutmann has announced.Daniels, 45, is an internationally accomplished legal scholar, specializing in corporate and securities law, regulation and government reform and the legal and institutional challenges of economic development.

Penn Teaching Assistants to Receive Excellence Awards

Penn Teaching Assistants to Receive Excellence AwardsApril 25, 2005PHILADELPHIA The University of Pennsylvania is honoring 12 graduate students for excellence in teaching. Penn President Amy Gutmann and Interim Provost Peter Conn will present the Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students in a ceremony on April 28 at 4 p.m. at Penn's Graduate Student Center at 3615 Locust Walk.

Penn Professor Thomas Sugrue Wins Fellowship for Civil Rights Research

PHILADELPHIA Thomas Sugrue, professor of history and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named one of 12 inaugural winners of  $50,000 fellowships to support work to improve race relations and illuminate civil-rights issues.Last year, Wall Street financier Alphonse Fletcher Jr., founder and chairman of Fletcher Asset Management, established the awards, to be given annually to individuals and organizations.

Landmine-clearing Invention Tops the Competition at the First Pennvention Contest

PHILADELPHIA -- A machine that could revolutionize the clean-up of landmines in war-stricken countries has taken the top prize at the first PennVention competition, a contest designed to encourage and reward University of Pennsylvania student inventors and entrepreneurs.

For Sheen, activism is reason for living.

Martin Sheen admits he’s taken some heat for his liberal views and, especially, his vocal opposition to the policies of President George W. Bush. But he says no amount of criticism will keep him quiet. “I love my country enough to risk its wrath,” said Sheen, who entertained a crowd of more than 1,200 at Irvine Auditorium March 29 as part of Penn’s Connaissance series.

Food (and drink) for the brain

What did Einstein win the Nobel Prize for in 1921? What color hair was Einstein born with? In the book “Driving Mr. Albert,” Michael Paterniti and Thomas Harvey rode across country to deliver something to Einstein's granddaughter. What was it? If you answered “physics, black and Einstein's brain” to the above questions, you could very well have won some free drinks had you been at the recent Penn Science Café at University City's MarBar.

Movable Feast: Pizza!

Thick or thin, white or red, pizza is a perennial favorite. Students love it because it’s easy on the wallet and convenient to scarf on the run. The rest of us like it because, well, do we really need to waste words? To help you satisfy your next craving for melted cheese and baked dough, we taste-tested two of the best places on campus for a pie or slice. Pizza Rustica 3602 Chestnut Street, 215-985-3490

Developing trust, and finding answers

When Penn sociologist Kathryn Edin wanted to find out why so many poor young women in America have children out of wedlock, she went straight to the source. With her husband and two small children, she moved to Camden, where she lived for two and a half years, immersing herself in the local life and getting to know her neighbors.

At Work With...Corky Cacas

Make your voice heard

Here at the Penn Current, our goal is to publish an interesting, insightful and useful publication that Penn faculty and staff will enjoy reading. Over the past few months, we’ve been making changes—large and small—with that goal in mind. Whether it’s been new layouts or new features, changes in our coverage or the elimination of less-than-exciting content, we’ve been working to make the Current better than it’s ever been.