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Penn to Present Honorary Degrees to Bono, Four Others At the University's 248th Commencement May 17
PHILADELPHIA -- Bono, lead singer and songwriter for the rock group U2 and a social-justice activist, will speak at the University of Pennsylvania's 248th Commencement ceremony Monday, May 17, at Franklin Field, 33rd and South streets. The procession of graduates begins at 9 a.m.Bono co-founded the organization Debt AIDS Trade Africa, which seeks to raise public awareness of and action against AIDS and poverty in Africa. For his tireless efforts and use of his celebrity as a force for change, Penn will award Bono an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.
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Penn Student Kelly George Receives Women in Science Award from L'Oréal USA
PHILADELPHIA -- University of Pennsylvania graduate student Kelly George is among five women to be honored for their achievements and promising scientific research as part of the L'Oreal USA for Women in Science Fellowship Programme. George will be awarded an education and research grant of $20,000 during a reception to be held at the New York Academy of Sciences.
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Penn Engineer, George Pappas, Honored with Presidential Early Career Award by President Bush
Philadelphia -- Today, University of Pennsylvania professor George Pappas was named as one of the nation's most promising young scientists and engineers by President Bush with a 2002 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
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Star search turns up fewer new ones
With few new stars being formed, will the twinkling lights above our heads soon disappear into the night sky? According to Raul Jimenez, assistant professor of physics, there is now very little gas—the main component of stars—available in the galaxies, so few new ones are forming. But since stars tend to have a lifetime of 10 to 100 billion years, and our universe is a youthful 13 billion years old, we don’t need to worry that the lights above will dim anytime soon.
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Center explores ties that bind people, animals
Like most animal lovers, when James Serpell thinks about the stray dogs of Taiwan or Philadelphia’s own canine abuse problem, he gets upset. As director of Penn’s Center for the Interaction of Animals and Society, a multi-disciplinary research center within the School of Veterinary Medicine, he gets to explore the root causes and work toward solutions. Doing research on how animals fare in their relationships with people is a big part of the center’s mission. It also looks at the other side of the equation—how people are affected by their interaction with animals.
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Research: What’s goin’ on with Marvin Gaye?
Twenty years after his untimely death at the hands of his father, Marvin Gaye has a secure place in the pantheon of pop music. At least four biographies, a memoir and a score of other works have explored his troubled life and groundbreaking music. Now comes Michael Eric Dyson to tell us there’s more to the story.
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Appointments
Loretta Sweet Jemmott has been named Assistant Provost effective May 1. In her new position, which was announced by Provost Robert Barchi April 13, Jemmott will have primary responsibility for gender and minority issues at the University of Pennsylvania.
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A show about nothing
Clear your mind and think of nothing. What do you see? Through the summer, the Institute of Contemporary Art shines the spotlight on a state of total, complete nothingness in its major group exhibition, “The Big Nothing.” Beginning May 1 in both gallery spaces, the ICA will feature more than 60 artists’ works from the 1970s to the present, including pieces from Yayoi Kusama that contemplate the metaphysical nothing, art by Jutta Koether that visualizes “nothing” as refusal or negation and Roe Ethridge’s delicate photographic image, “Moon” (left).
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Education gets the royal treatment
Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorm of Thailand is greeted by two members of her 30-person delegation, (left to right) Siam University President Pormchai Mongkhovanit and National Education Council of Thailand Secretary-General Rung Kaedwang, as she arrives at the Inn at Penn for the second U.S.-Thailand Education Policy Roundtable on April 8. The summit, hosted by Penn’s Graduate School of Education and sponsored by the Starr Foundation, brought top American and Thai education officials together to discuss math and science teaching and higher education.