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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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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?

AWARDS & HONORS

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An honor for a future doctor without borders

While most Florida State University sophomores were worrying about the Seminoles’ chances against Miami or getting a good tan, Richard Vidal was hard at work, making the most of his education, and making his education the most it could be for others less fortunate. Vidal is now a first-year student in the Medical School. He is still hard at work and has been rewarded with the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans.

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