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New Virtual Reality Array Allows Immersive Experience Without the Disorienting 3-D Goggles
PHILADELPHIA The University of Pennsylvania has installed a virtual reality system that allows a participant full-body interaction with a virtual environment without the hassle of bulky, dizzying 3-D glasses. The system will be demonstrated for journalists and others Thursday, May 15.
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Penn Student Wins Humanitarian Award
PHILADELPHIA -- Mei Elansary, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, has won the 2003 Howard R. Swearer Student Humanitarian Award from Campus Compact. ei has spent a great deal of time promoting health in the West Philadelphia community,said Penn President Judith Rodin. n addition, she has promoted sustainable partnerships between Penn and its community. She is very deserving of this outstanding award.
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Penn Law School and National Constitution Center Host Political Campaign Finance Symposium
MEDIA ADVISORYWHAT: Symposium about the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Law "McConnell v. Federal Election Commission: Understanding the Decision and Its Implications"WHEN: May 15, 2003, 10:30 a.m.- noon. "Understanding the Decision" Richard Briffault, Columbia Law School. Bob Bauer, Perkins Coie, Trevor Potter, former chairman of the Federal Election Commission
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New Director Appointed at Kelly Writers House
PHILADELPHIA Jennifer Snead will be the director of the University of Pennsylvania Kelly Writers House, effective July 1. Snead had been the assistant program coordinator at the Kelly Writers House and a research associate for the School of Arts and SciencesOffice of External Affairs.
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Plant Biologist Anthony Cashmore Elected to National Academy of Sciences
PHILADELPHIA University of Pennsylvania biologist Anthony R. Cashmore has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, one of 72 American scientists newly recognized for their distinguished re-search achievements.Election to the NAS is considered one of the highest honors accorded U.S. scientists and engineers. Including Cashmore, 38 Penn researchers are now NAS members.
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New dean for Annenberg
The Annenberg School has tapped one of the nation’s most respected scholars in American politics, public opinion research and mass media to be its next dean. Michael X. Delli Carpini (C/G’75), who currently serves as director of the Public Policy Program for the Pew Charitable Trusts, will succeed Kathleen Hall Jamieson in this leadership post.
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Sun worshippers
So finally the sun is starting to make an appearance. Don’t waste a beautiful day eating lunch at your desk. Read on for tips on where and how to catch the best rays on campus, just don’t forget to bring along your sunglasses and the SPF. MAUREEN COTTERILL Manager, Graduate School of Education “The roof of the GSE building is a great place. Just kidding, I try to avoid the sun at all times.”
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Program exposes Philly to the world
What can someone learn about the Middle East from a can of beans and a box of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes? Quite a bit, it turns out. “Food is a great leveler, people understand food,” said Sue Dyke, program coordinator of the University of Pennsylvania Museum’s International Classroom (IC) Program. Thus a can of beans—a breakfast staple in many Arab countries—shows how traditions endure into the modern era, while the pictures and legends on the Egyptian corn flakes box show how foreign influences are incorporated into other cultures.
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Gladwell: Learned ability matters too
When the Eagles’ scouts picked Syracuse’s Donovan McNabb in the 1999 NFL draft, did they prove that they were brilliant predictors of quarterback potential? “They might just as well have thrown a dart at a list of top college quarterbacks because statistics show that it is impossible to predict who will succeed as a professional,” said New Yorker staff writer Malcolm Gladwell.
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Staff Q&A: David Toccafondi
Almost all of us at one point or another have stored under our beds or deep in our closets shoeboxes full of treasures. They may have contained rare baseball cards, vintage comic books or perhaps stamps from around the world. But how many of us have started coffee stain collections or jotted down and stored away the locations of lost gloves?