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Nancy Streim
Three years ago, the University announced that it would help create a new public elementary school in University City. The school will open Sept. 6. It is beginning small. Its first students will be three classes each of kindergarteners and first graders, but eventually, the school will serve 700 students from pre-kindergarten up to grade eight, phasing in the other grades by the 2005-2006 school year. The classes also begin small, with kindergarten planned at up to 17 students per class, and the upper grades with 23 per class.
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Rubenstein named EVP and dean
The new executive vice president for the Health System and dean of the School of Medicine is an accomplished medical researcher and administrator. But Arthur H. Rubenstein, M.D., is still a teacher at heart. “It’s in my bones and blood,” he said at a July 31 news conference. “I hope to teach in any way I can” while running the system. Rubenstein, 63, was named to the dual posts July 30.
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Chinese opera meets Western symphony
May 26: We arrived at Tsinghua University in the late afternoon for our first rehearsal in China. This was our first time rehearsing with our guest musicians, Zhao Yihua and Li Yiping playing, respectively, the jinghu and the pipa, two traditional Chinese instruments. Sun Ping, Dr. Averbach, and the orchestra had all grown relatively accustomed to one another through our many rehearsals at Penn, but Mr. Zhao and Mr. Li were new to this cross-cultural music. They had to understand how they were to mesh with the orchestra, Sun Ping, and Dr. Averbach.
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Penn-Assisted School Opens Doors To K-1 Students Sept. 6
PHILADELPHIA While its future home may be only an outline in red and white steel girders, the new University of Pennsylvania-assisted public school at 42nd and Locust streets will open Sept. 6 for some 120 students in kindergarten and grade one.While the new building is under construction, classes will be held in a wing of a now-closed divinity school that occupies the site. Students at the still-to-be-named facility will benefit from a school designed from the ground up to incorporate the "best educational practices" that have borne the tests of research and time.
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NSF Awards Penn Scientists $1 Million To Identify Better, Earlier Means Of 'Debugging' Embedded Computers
PHILADELPHIA The National Science Foundation has awarded $1 million to a University of Pennsylvania team to identify better techniques for software development, particularly ways to get a jump-start, during product design, on debugging the embedded computers that run modern automobiles and a host of other electronic devices and appliances.
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Penn Freshmen Get A Start On Their Ivy League Education Even Before They Get To Campus
PHILADELPHIA -- It's easy to see the final line in Voltaire's "Candide" hanging on the wall above an executive's head in a neatly matted frame: "e must cultivate our garden." Or perhaps on an inspiring desk calendar in a clean crisp font? This phrase radiates an optimistic energy; a hard-work-pays-off spirit.Or does it?The ambiguity and multi-tiered interpretations are what makes "Candide" this year's choice for the Penn Reading Project.
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Neuron By Neuron, Penn Researchers Study Brain Cells' Attempts To Heal Themselves After Severe Injuries
PHILADELPHIA Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have won a $3.1 million bioengineering research grant to study brain injuries at a level of detail never before attained. The team, lead by Penn bioengineer David F. Meaney, will detect the genes and proteins altered in single neurons in the brain to better understand the cellsresponses to contusions and other forms of brain trauma.
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Philadelphia Architect Marshall D. Meyers Dies At 70
PHILADELPHIA -- Architect Marshall D. Meyers, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects who spent his professional life in Philadelphia, died August 12 in Pasadena, Calif. He was 70. Meyers was known for his exceptional contributions to the art and craft of architecture, and is internationally recognized for his innovative contributions to Philadelphia architect Louis I.
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Physicists Find Gyrations Of Tiny Rod-Like Viruses Induce Measurable Entropic Forces In Solution
PHILADELPHIA In an experiment with exquisite sensitivity, physicists at the University of Pennsylvania have found that fluctuations as fleeting as the bending of rod-shaped viruses just 880 millionths of a millimeter in length can measurably increase the entropic forces between other particles in solution. The finding is reported in the journal Physical Review Letters.
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Penn Offers Doctorate In Higher Education Management
PHILADELPHIA--Back to school this year has taken new meaning for 18 senior administrators from higher education across the nation. They are not only orchestrating the new academic year from their posts as vice presidents and deans but they are also beginning their doctorates in higher education management at the University of Pennsylvania.The Executive Doctorate is structured so participants can earn the Penn doctorate in education in two years by coming to Philadelphia for a long weekend once a month for 20 consecutive months. The program begins on Aug. 16 and runs to Aug. 21.