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McNeil Center for Early American Studies to Have Permanent Home
PHILADELPHIA-- The Barra Foundation and Robert L. McNeil Jr. have pledged $6 million to the University of Pennsylvania to build a permanent home for the McNeil Center for Early American Studies of the School of Arts and Sciences and to provide a permanent endowment for the building's operational costs. The new building will be located on 34th Street near Walnut Street.
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Penn Presents 2003 Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium
PHILADELPHIA -- Talks by civil rights activists, a candlelight vigil, public service projects and teach-ins will be held Jan. 14-31 at the University of Pennsylvania as part of the 2003 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Symposium on Social Change. "Penn's Commitment to the Legacy: Justice, Peace and Service" is the theme for this year's Symposium. The complete calendar of events is available online at http://www.upenn.edu/aarc/mlk.
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When Self-Image Takes a Blow, Many Turn to Television as a Distraction
PHILADELPHIA – Whether you fancy yourself a jet-setting sophisticate or a down-to-earth outdoorsy type, a fast-track corporate star or an all-around nice guy, new research indicates that you probably tune out information that challenges your self-image by tuning in to television.The findings, by Sophia Moskalenko of the University of Pennsylvania and Steven Heine of the University of British Columbia, are presented in a paper published in the January issue of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
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"Race, Gender and War: The Martin Luther King Legacy"
WHAT: A conversation with Michael Eric Dyson, Mary Frances Berry and Afaf Meleis on race, gender, class and militarism in Martin Luther King's time and today WHEN: Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2003, 5 p.m. WHERE: Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce St., Philadelphia
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Penn Sociologist Receives Fulbright to Uruguay
PHILADELPHIA -- Frank Furstenberg, professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, has received a Fulbright Senior Specialists Grant in Sociology at the Instituto de Economía.The Fulbright Senior Specialists Program offers two- to six-week grants to leading U.S. academics and professionals to support curricular and faculty development and institutional planning at academic institutions in 140 countries around the world.
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Scientists Find New Evidence of Cell 'Promiscuity': Fully Differentiated Blood Cells Remain Able to Switch Identity
PHILADELPHIA – Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine have found a new wrinkle in the developmental biology dogma that cell differentiation occurs irreversibly as stem cells give rise to increasingly specialized types of offspring cells. The researchers have shown that certain mouse cells retain an ability to oscillate between very distinct blood cell types – B-cells and macrophages – long after what has been commonly regarded as the point of no return.
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Suburban Sprawl, Non-Traditional Cities
Susan Nigra Snyder is a lecturer in architecture and fine arts at the University of Pennsylvania, a partner at Company for the Civic Arts in Philadelphia and a member of the public art committee for the Redevelopment Authority of Philadelphia. Her research focuses on the effect commercial property in urban developments. Snyder says that sprawl development is not the city spreading out too far or the suburbs endlessly expanding -- people live in one area, work in another and shop in others. She sees the suburban development as a new type of city.
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Tribute to Du Bois Being Held at Arthur Ross Gallery
PHILADELPHIA The Arthur Ross Gallery, in cooperation with the Center for Africana Studies, is presenting Darkwater: Recital in Four Dominions, Terry Adkins after W.E.B. Du Bois, an exhibition celebrating 30 years of African American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, from Dec. 14-March 2, 2003.
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Fisher-Hassenfeld Joint Gift Helps Transform Residential Life at Penn
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania's historic Quadrangle has received a joint $11.5 million commitment from Penn alumni Alan Hassenfeld and Jerome Fisher and Fisher's wife Anne. In recognition of the gifts, Woodland College House will be renamed Fisher Hassenfeld College House, and an entrance to the Quad will be named the Fisher Hassenfeld Memorial Tower Gate. The Fisher-Hassenfeld commitment is the lead gift in the transformation of the Quad into three distinct college houses.
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Doctors take pulse of hard times
Patients are not the only ones frustrated with their experiences at the doctor’s office. A Nov. 15 and 16 “Doctoring in Hard Times” conference, which was sponsored by the Center for Bioethics and the Acadia Institute, highlighted the rising discontent of physicians too. The event marked the second Renée C. Fox Symposium, which was established in 1999 in honor of the Penn medical sociologist.