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Clothes and the Renaissance man/Q&A with Peter Stallybrass

One of the walls in Peter Stallybrass’s house is covered with bookshelves filled with books, ancient in cracked leather covers and modern in paper and cloth. Ancient and modern art works, many of them textile-based, hang all around, and beautiful wood objects like his father’s recorders—one a bass recorder and a smaller treble recorder—punctuate the airy space. Stallybrass, the Edmund J. and Louise W.

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Red, blue & green As winter approaches, Penn is putting all things energy on top of its list. The school now leads the nation as the top purchaser of wind-produced electrical energy. Come blustery days, the Exelon-Community Energy Wind Farm in Somerset County will parcel out 30 percent of its pollution-free energy to the school. And Penn’s forward-thinking energy policy won’t end there. Vice President of Facilities Services Omar Blaik said the campus community is encouraged to participate in the energy conservation policy.

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And the winners are…: This is the moment you’ve all been waiting for—well, at least the 319 of you who responded to our fall readership survey. Here are the winners of our survey prize drawing: $25 gift certificate from the Penn Bookstore: Maureen Kelly in the Division of Public Safety

$7 mil. for center

With a $7 million grant, the Medical Center has established a center to reduce the risk of medication errors. Provided by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the grant established the new Center of Excellence for Patient Safety Research and Practice, which includes physicians and researchers from multiple disciplines, including biostatistics and economics. “Sadly, medication errors are among the most common,” said Brian L. Strom, director of the center. “They account for more deaths each year than motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer or HIV infection.”

Student spotlight: Small change creates a big donation

Dana Hork (C’02) wants you to see the big picture. Forget the little bitsy parts and focus instead on the collective. Having a hard time? No worries. Hork, founder of Change for Change, is an expert at getting others to think big.

History lesson reflects the present in the past

When confused, turn to the past for clarity, Michael Zuckerman recently told a group of Philadelphia high school students, student teachers and teachers. At an Oct. 19 interdisciplinary workshop on teaching primary texts in public schools, which was co-hosted by the Graduate School of Education, the Annenberg Foundation and Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Zuckerman said that the American Revolution and the events following Sept. 11 share surprising similarities.

Penn, Goldman Sachs Foundation To Promote Entrepreneurship In Education

PHILADELPHIA The University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education and The Goldman Sachs Foundation are preparing Penn students and K-12 educators to start new initiatives in education. The Goldman Sachs Entrepreneurship in Education program will nurture entrepreneurial-minded educators and support their development of new initiatives.

Scientists Win $1.26 Million To Study Microfluidic Systems

PHILADELPHIA - Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have received a three-year, $1.26 million grant, part of a push to develop minute, fluid-based systems that could be used to safely detect minuscule quantities of airborne pathogens, analyze blood in real time and inconspicuously monitor the safety of food and water.