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Tony Kushner mixes wit, modesty
Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner cringed visibly when he realized he was in a room with 20 people who’d read “Tony Kushner in Conversation,” a thick book of interviews, in its entirety. “Oh, that accursed volume!” he moaned. “I know I haven’t said 50 pages of interesting things, so I have no idea what’s in there.” With that characteristically self-deprecating comment, Kushner’s two-day visit to campus was off and running.
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Midwinter pick-me-ups
The photo on the March calendar has happy spring flowers, but for now, winter blusters on. What is the magical cure for the winter blahs when it seems like the sun will never shine again? No one we asked suggested going where the sun never stops shining — Antarctica. Fortunately, most of the cures were simpler, cheaper and local. Check them out and feel better soon.
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Girl Talk links two worlds — campus and North Philly
Every Wednesday, Beandrea Davis (C’03) leaves Penn behind and travels to Edison High School in North Philly. In lives of the students there, Davis said, she sees a world that could have been hers. “It makes me appreciate things I’ve been given,” said Davis, a French and Afro-American Studies major who spent 11th and 12th grades at a selective boarding school in Connecticut. To her, it’s just an accident of fate that she grew up with the parents she has, getting the education she got.
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“Early Carolingian Warfare: Prelude to Empire”
“Early Carolingian Warfare” is the first book-length study of how the Frankish dynasty, beginning with Pippin II, established its power and cultivated its military expertise to revive the Roman empire in Western Europe under Charlemagne.
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Research to cure a field in turmoil
The U.S. health care system is in turmoil. And the people who run it and shape it are looking for good advice on how to manage the upheaval. The folks at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI), which brings together faculty from four Penn schools — Medicine, Dental Medicine, Nursing and Wharton — have plenty of advice, based on the latest research in the field. And the institute gets that advice to those who need it — health care executives, legislators and others with a stake in how health care is delivered in America.
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A cool $16 mil.
An archaeologist has given $16 million to the University of Pennsylvania Museum — the largest individual contribution ever made to the Museum and one of the largest to any university museum. The donor, Charles K. Williams II (Gr’78), was field director from 1966 to 1997 of excavations in Greece where many Penn students have done field work. This donation caps his prior gifts to the Museum, totaling more than $5.3 million.
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Students discuss the shades of black
Blackness is political. It’s social. It’s not just wearing baggy clothes and listening to hip-hop. It’s eating soul food. It’s not the same thing as being African-American. It’s simply too big to define. All of these points and more were raised by the roughly 50 students who showed up for a discussion of “Degrees of Blackness” at DuBois College House Feb. 19.
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Word up to bilingual education
Bolivians speak more than 40 languages besides Spanish. The country made education bilingual and intercultural in the 1994 National Education Reform. South Africans speak multiple African tongues besides English and Afrikaans. The 1993 post-apartheid constitution added the nine African languages to the roster of official national languages and ended the segregation of the education system from four — white, African, Indian and colored (or mixed) — into one integrated system. What’s a teacher to do?
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College house dean named
Frank Pellicone, Ph.D. was named the new dean of Harrison College House. He comes here from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he served as director of undergraduate studies in Italian, coordinator of the Italian language program and faculty advisor to the Italian Student Association. Andréa Grottoli, Ph.D., a new member of the department of earth and environmental sciences, was named faculty fellow of Goldberg College House. Grottoli comes from the University of California, Irvine, where she was a Dreyfus postdoctoral fellow.
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Penn Freshman Is A Contestant on TV's "Hollywood Squares" Game Show
PHILADELPHIA University of Pennsylvania student Joey Tini is among 14 college students from across the nation competing for thousands of dollars in cash and prizes on the television game show, "Hollywood Squares."