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The right stuff
Novelist Tom Wolfe has spent more than three decades chronicling American culture and its foibles with uncanny accuracy and wit. His latest novel, “A Man in Full,” explores the New South and American race relations today, just as his celebrated novel “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” first serialized in Rolling Stone, captured the class structure and politics of New York in the 1980s.
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He who integrated circuits
Jack St. Clair Kilby did not set out to change the world when he began tinkering with the idea of an integrated circuit back in the 1950s. “In 1958 my goals were simple — lower the cost, simplify the assembly and make things faster and cheaper,” he said of the research effort he led at Texas Instruments that produced the first integrated circuit.
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Profs dig a freshman’s talk on dinosaurs
The heavy hitters in Penn’s earth and environmental science department — including the heaviest hitter of all, Professor and Chairman Bob Giegengack — turned out March 23 to hear a freshman talk about dinosaurs over a catered lunch.
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Looking to buy? Come to the fair
If you’re a faculty or staff member who’s in the market to buy a new home — even if it’s not in University City — the Office of Community Housing’s annual Home Buyers Housing Fair is for you.
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Spring Break highlights
A beach does not necessarily a spring break make. So we asked some students, What made their spring break great? Alas, one of the answers was unprintable. Wasn’t he worried his mother would read this publication? Well we were, even if he wasn’t. So we blue-penciled the hot details. After all, this is not “Temptation Island.” But not everybody went someplace hot, hot, hot. Some headed for the cold, cold, cold and some just headed for home, where they still found some unexpected highlights that made their spring breaks special.
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Student discovers his Latino soul
Ramon Marmolejos (C/W’01) emigrated from the Dominican Republic to the multicultural mecca of New York City with his parents when he was five. But he didn’t get plugged into Dominican and Latino culture until he came to Penn. This may sound strange, but he has an explanation. “Most of the Dominicans in New York live in Washington Heights” in upper Manhattan, he said. “I lived most of my life in Queens and went to a semi-private day school. “So when I got here, I had a thirst for learning about Latino culture.”
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The S. Samuel Arsht Chair In Corporate Law Is Endowed At The University Of Pennsylvania Law School
PHILADELPHIA The University of Pennsylvania Law School is bolstering its expanding corporate law program with the creation of the S. Samuel Arsht Professorship. The endowed chair in corporate law was created through a gift of $2 million from retired Delaware Judge Roxana Cannon Arsht in memory of her husband.
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"The Trotula: A Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine"
Edited and translated by Monica H. Green 328 pages, nine black-and-white illustrations, $55.00 cloth
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New initiatives help grad students
When graduate student Kyle Farley came to Penn, he saw a university with an advantage over many of its Ivy peers: All the graduate and professional schools are on the same campus. But Farley, now in his fourth year as a Ph.D. student in U.S. history, also saw a down side. “Most people only knew people in their own graduate school,” he said. So Farley, now the chair of the Graduate and Professional Students Assembly (GAPSA), and Graduate Student Associations Council (GSAC) President Eric Eisenstein came up with a solution and wrote a proposal for a graduate student center.
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McCain to speak
U.S. Sen. John S. McCain, whose recent race for the Republican presidential nomination inspired admiration across party lines, but not enough votes, will deliver the Commencement address at the 245th Commencement ceremony May 21. McCain, 64, has brought campaign finance reform to the top of the legislative agenda with the McCain-Feingold bill. He gained a reputation as a war hero after spending more than five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam’s infamous “Hanoi Hilton.”