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Performer Laurie Anderson to Visit Penn's Kelly Writers House
WHO: Laurie Anderson, performer and poetWHAT: Participating in the Kelly Writers House Fellows programWHEN: March 25 at 6:30 p.m. and March 25 at 10 a.m.WHERE: Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, University of Pennsylvania
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New Penn/Gallup Poll Measures "Spiritual State of the Union"
March 4, 2003PHILADELPHIA – Faith and spirituality guide the lives of three out of four American adults, according to a new report byNew Penn/Gallup Poll Measures "Spiritual State of the Union" researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, the Gallup Organization and the George H. Gallup International Institute.
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Paul Hendrickson to Discuss "Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and its Legacy" at Penn Humanities Forum
WHO: Paul Hendrickson, professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and author of "Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and its Legacy"WHAT: Discussion and signing of his latest book, "Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and its Legacy"WHEN: March 25 at 6 p.m.WHERE: 3619 Locust Walk, University of Pennsylvania
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National Science Foundation Gives $1.5 Million to Boost Math and Science in K-12 Classrooms
PHILADELPHIA -- Schools in West Philadelphia will be supported by a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to boost their mathematics and science curricula in grades K-12. An original grant to the University of Pennsylvania's Mathematics Department from NSF four years ago founded Access Science, an academically based community service project supported by Penn's Center for Community Partnerships. The new funding, which is approximately $500,000 for three years, will allow Access Science to continue through 2006.
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Putting Augustan Rome on the map
Lothar Haselberger was often asked, “Are you crazy?” when people learned of his effort to map the known structure of Augustan Rome. “This is Rome,” they said. “With so many [structures], and you want to [map them] in a short period of time.” After all, Rome wasn’t built in a day.
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“Jewish Russians: Upheavals in a Moscow Synagogue”
Based on extensive fieldwork, “Jewish Russians” is an in-depth examination of a single Jewish community in post-Soviet Moscow and the conflicts and struggles—sometimes physically violent ones—over control of its synagogue. Sascha Goluboff, a cultural anthropologist at Washington and Lee University, charts the demise of this elderly Russian Jewish community and the rise of a transnational one consisting of Jews from all regions of the former Soviet empire.
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Docs come back to school
Some of the nation’s top physicians will be coming to Penn for a second dose of education. The University has been chosen to serve as a training site for the Clinical Scholars Program of the New Jersey-based Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nation’s largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health and health care.
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Far from Florida
For many Penn staffers, a change in the weather doesn’t mean a break in routine. Many of you are still hard at work while students are sunning themselves in Ft. Lauderdale. Still, some of you find time for some R&R, even though it may not include hopping on the plane to some exotic locale. Here’s what you told the Current when we asked, Penn students get a Spring Break, do you take time to make one? CAROLANNE SAUNDERS Coordinator, Sociology “No, I don’t. I go straight through until June then straight through September.”
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Penn Confidential
The headlines tell you everything you need to know about why Lauren Steinfeld’s (C’89) job as Penn’s first chief privacy officer is so important.
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Gelles named School of Social Work dean
School of Social Work Professor Richard J. Gelles, who is known internationally for his work in domestic violence and child welfare, has been named dean of the School. The holder of the Joanne and Raymond Welsh Chair of Child Welfare and Family Violence, Gelles has been serving as interim dean since Fall 2001.