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Mad mortarboards
A tip of the hat to our graduating students, all of whom deserve praise for their achievement. But we found a few who managed to express their gratitude — or their creativity — on their caps.
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Gates scholarship opens doors to study abroad for two new grads
A pair of recent Penn grads have just snagged two brand-new study-abroad fellowships. This fall, Bart Szewczyk (W’01), of Guttenberg, N.J., and Amanda Codd (C’01), of Morrisville, Pa., will join the inaugural class of Gates Scholars — 40 to 50 Americans in all, plus several hundred from around the world — studying at the University of Cambridge in England with a full scholarship from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Penn Paleontologists Locate A New Genus Of Colossal Dinosaur Along An Ancient Coastline
PHILADELPHIA University of Pennsylvania researchers have unearthed a new genus of gargantuan dinosaur in a corner of Egypt that paleontologists had all but ignored since World War II, when earlier finds stored in German museums were blasted from existence by Allied warplanes. In the June 1 issue of Science, the Penn team reports on its discovery of Paralititan stromeri, one of the most massive animals ever to walk the earth, and presents evidence that the quadruped walked in ancient mangrove swamps in what is now the Sahara Desert.
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More students win grants
The American Academy in Rome awarded to a graduate student here one of its 29 prestigious Rome Prizes. The prize provides a residency of six months to two years plus a stipend.during which the winners can pursue work independently at the American Academy in Rome. Carol Whang, a graduate student in music, was awarded the Rome Prize Fellowship in Post-Classical Humanistic/Modern Italian Studies, to study 16th century parody Mass composition methods, working with manuscripts at the Vatican Library.
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Are we blue? You bet we are
Forget red. Blue is the color of the Penn campus next weekend as the University hosts the fifth annual Greater Philadelphia Blues Fest June 7-10. Headlining this year’s festival are New Orleans-born blues and R&B legend Dr. John, who refuses to be pigeonholed into a single musical genre, and Shemekia Copeland (photo), daughter of the late blues legend Johnny Clyde Copeland and herself one of the hottest young performers on the blues scene today.
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CEO for real
Robert D. Martin, Ph.D., interim chief executive officer and chief operating officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, has been named to the CEO position on a permanent basis. President Judith Rodin announced the appointment May 14. During Martin’s tenure as interim CEO, the Health System returned to profitability after several years of losses. For the first half of fiscal year 2001, the system posted an $18.5 million operating profit, and indicators point to a profitable year overall.
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Late nights and jelly beans
In keeping with Wharton tradition, graduating senior Aaron Karo (W’01) delivered the address at the Wharton Undergraduate and Evening Division degree ceremony May 20. Here are excerpts from his look back across four years at Penn: Any discussion of the Wharton experience must, of course, begin with Steinberg-Dietrich Hall, or “Steiny-D” as it is affectionately called by its bleary-eyed inhabitants. Steiny-D is the place where we, the world’s future business leaders, learned the basics of finance, accounting and marketing.
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Were blind, but now dogs see
Bennett’s team tried the gene therapy on mice like the one on her shoulder before successfully repeating it in dogs like Lancelot (in photo behind her right arm). Bennett took Lancelot with her to Washington when she testified before Congress about the procedure May 23. Photo by Daniel R. Burke
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War and Slavery in Sudan
Jok Madut Jok 240 pages, 4 black-and-white illustrations, 2 maps, $24.95 paper Slavery has been endemic in Sudan for thousands of years. Today the Sudanese slave trade persists as a complex network of buyers, sellers, and middlemen that operates most actively when times are favorable.
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Penn Professor Uses Basketball, Martial Arts To Help Young Men Learn To Control Anger
PHILADELPHIA A University of Pennsylvania professor is teaching troubled boys to control their aggression through basketball, martial arts and cultural pride. Howard Stevenson, an associate professor in Penn Graduate School of Education and director of the program, has helped more than 150 youngsters at Philadelphia E.S. Miller School during the past three years. Stevenson has found that through the mentoring program violent behavior declined dramatically.