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Browser alert: The Penn Web site is about to get a major makeover—the first top-to-bottom redesign of the site since 1997, an eternity in Internet time. The site’s look, feel, organization and content are being thoroughly revamped as you read this; keep an eye out for the results in September.
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Hard-working mothers recognized
Penn employee Felicia Green jokes that she used to think the toughest years of parenting were when her four kids—three boys and one girl—were 2 and 3. But now that two of them have become teenagers—one 16 and one 14 years old—she’s learning a whole new set of challenges. These days, weekends are spent chauffeuring her children from one party to another, and dating has become the latest issue.
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Take your career to the movies
Add oomph to your career with these Human Resources brown-bag matinees. All courses meet at 3624 Market Street, Suite 1B South unless noted otherwise. For information about these and other classes, call 215-898-3400 or visit www.hr.upenn.edu/learning. Registration required.
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Bookquick/“American Childhoods”
The experiences of children in America have long been a source of scholarly fascination and general interest. In “American Childhoods,” Joseph Illick, professor of history at San Francisco State University, presents the first comprehensive cross-cultural history of childhood in America, bringing together his own extensive research and a synthesis of literature from a range of disciplines.
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Hot topics get the short treatment
The warm June day was perfect for baseball. College of General Studies Dean Richard Hendrix donned his Philadelphia Opera Company baseball cap to deliver a meaningful talk—“The Deeper Meanings of Baseball”—in 60 seconds, part of a series of 60-second lectures Wednesdays at noon at 37th and Locust Walk during the summer semester. The Caribbean Authentics interrupted their island music for the lecture, and about 100 people either interrupted their progress along the walkways or sat around the fountain and tables to eat and hear the talk.
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Staff Q&A: Valerie Ross
Penn used to be a sleepy place during the summer. Not any more. Much of the increased activity is Valerie Ross’ doing. She arrived at Penn in the winter of 1999 with a charge to put more sizzle into the summer. And she hit the ground running, putting together a variety of events and activities and turning the summer program for high school students into a true college preparatory experience.
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Editor's Pick: Worlds of enchantment
There’s still time to go around the world in an hour this summer at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. The Museum’s annual “Summer Magic” series for children ages 6 to 12 and their families features music, dance and storytelling from around the world. In addition to the Women’s Sekere Ensemble (photo), a Museum favorite, other upcoming performances in the series feature Chinese dance, African storytelling and puppetry. —S.S.
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Pew Fellowships for two Penn poets
- Two Penn poets—Kelly Writers House Acting Director Teresa Leo and former English graduate student Mytili Jagannathan (G’00)—are recipients of the $50,000 Pew Fellowship in the Arts for 2002. The fellowship will allow the two to focus on their art without the worry of full-time jobs. Sample their poetry at ccat.sas .upenn.edu/xconnect.
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A new COO
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania has tapped Philadelphia native Albert P. Black Jr. to be its chief operating officer. Black has spent 10 years as an administrator at Eagleville Hospital and was most recently associate hospital director for 16 years at Temple University Hospital. In the newly created position, Black, 59, will focus on three key areas of the hospital’s mission—clinical care, medical education and research.