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A professional approach to public health
The University Trustees have approved the creation of a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree that will be Penn’s first university-wide professional degree program. The new degree is the culmination of a three-year process that required the collaborative effort of eight schools: the School of Medicine, which administers the program and offers the degree, and the schools of Arts and Sciences, Dental Medicine, Education, Nursing, Social Work, Veterinary Medicine and Wharton.
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Staff Q&A: Pamela Caudill
Pamela Caudill spreads a black fleece blanket on her desk. On one corner is an embroidered name flanked by pink roses on either side. Handcrafted by Caudill herself, the throw is intended as a present for one of her staffers.
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Bernstein, Sontag, Anderson to visit
Kelly Writers House has announced that screenwriter Walter Bernstein, performance artist Laurie Anderson and critic-turned-novelist Susan Sontag will each spend several days on campus this spring as Writers House Fellows. Walter Bernstein, once a regular contributor to The New Yorker, wrote the scripts for “Fail Safe” and “The Magnificent Seven” among others, but is best known as the blacklisted screenwriter during the McCarthy era who turned his story into an Academy Award-nominated movie, “The Front,” starring Woody Allen. He will be at Penn Feb. 17-18.
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Campus Buzz
Penn-in-Harrisburg I: There’s another bigwig in the Rendell administration with a Penn connection: Secretary of Conservation and Natural Resources Mike DiBerardinis. The longtime community activist had served as recreation commissioner in the administration of Mayor Rendell. This fall, he was named executive director of the Campaign for Working Families, a project housed in Penn’s Center for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society designed to help low-income families take advantage of state and federal programs that assist the working poor.
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Teacher shortage? What teacher shortage?
School officials may be racing to find warm bodies to teach their students, but according to Richard Ingersoll, all of this running around may be for naught. The associate professor of education and sociology said that contrary to conventional wisdom, there really is no teaching shortage. “The problem isn’t so much that we’re making too few teachers,” said Ingersoll. “More than enough teachers are produced each year, from schools of education and whatnot. Rather, the problem is there are too many teachers prematurely leaving.”
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’ body of work
As we mentioned in our last issue (“Upcoming,” Current, Jan. 16), Terry Adkins’ current Arthur Ross Gallery show, “Darkwater,” is billed as “a recital in four dominions”—sculpture, prints, documents and music. Two of those dominions meet on Thursday, Feb. 6, when Washington-based performance artist Sherman Fleming joins the Lone Wolf Recital Corps for “Titan,” a musical/human-sculptural tribute to the life and work of W.E.B. DuBois at the Institute for Contemporary Art.
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News briefs
Home sweet home A recent $6 million gift from the Barra Foundation and Robert L. McNeil Jr. is making a permanent home possible for the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. The new building will be located on 34th Street near Walnut. The grant will also be used to provide a permanent endowment for the building’s operational costs. Founded in 1978 by Richard S. Dunn, emeritus professor of American history, the McNeil Center specializes in the histories and cultures of North America.
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“This isn’t brain surgery. It’s harder.”
—Richard Gelles, interim dean of the School of Social Work, on the difficult decisions social services caseworkers must make when determining a family’s fate (The Miami Herald, Jan. 5)
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New year, new you (or not)
With the new year also come those dreaded resolutions. Seems like almost everyone wants the same things—a smaller waistline and less stress. But don’t count on everyone to have a list. Some staffers are happy with themselves just the way they are. SARA REB Research Assistant, Women’s Studies “My new year’s resolutions are to finish my dissertation and find a non-academic job, and buy an apartment. I am still on the right path.”
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Penn Scientists Hochstrasser, Davis Win Franklin Medal
PHILADELPHIA – Two University of Pennsylvania researchers have been selected as 2003 recipients of the Benjamin Franklin Medal, one of the world's oldest science and technology awards. The laureates will be honored April 24 at an award ceremony at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.