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$20m for aid, more
George Weiss (W’65) has said yes to Penn again — in a big way. Weiss’ Say Yes to Education foundation has donated $20 million to the University to enhance campus life, support faculty and strengthen financial aid. Nearly one-third of the gift, or $6 million, will go to financial aid, including a $5 million challenge fund that will provide one dollar for every two new dollars raised.
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Debate in China no oxymoron when it comes to divorce
Marriage is a hot issue on the lips of citizens in China, and the intensity of the debate has taken Chinese officials by surprise. So said Harvard University’s William Alford, the Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, in his Jan. 30 talk at Williams Hall entitled “Have You Eaten? Have You Jumped Into the Sea? Have You Divorced?: Marriage, Divorce and Competing Conceptions of Freedom in the People’s Republic of China.” The brouhaha is over a new marriage law in the making. The draft has been put up for consideration in the Chinese legislature, the National People’s Congress.
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No more Mr. Nice World for war crime
With the beginning of the 21st century, the world has become a decidedly uncomfortable — indeed dangerous — place for perpetrators of major human rights violations. This is somewhat surprising. From the end of the Nuremberg trials through the 1990s, the international legal system gave all indications of not pursuing the ground-breaking precedent those trials had established.
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For a 3-D view from afar, try tele-immersion
Imagine a three-dimensional view, from across the continent or the ocean, of a heart operation — a view with the same kind of clarity and depth of field that being right in the operating room offers. With a setup like that, a doctor could teach a new surgical procedure simultaneously to hundreds or even thousands of others all over the world.
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New music from Dolly Parton
Country legend Dolly Parton drops by “The World Cafe” Feb. 23 to give listeners a taste of her latest album, “Little Sparrow.” Other highlights include jam-rock band moe. and a preview of this year’s Grammy Awards. Here’s the full schedule: Thursday, Feb. 15 moe. perform music from their new album, “Dither”
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Beck recognized for cognitive therapy research
Aaron Beck, Ph.D., University Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, has received this year’s Heinz Award for the Human Condition from the Heinz Family Foundation. The $250,000 cash prize is one of six awarded each year to recognize outstanding leaders in areas where the late Sen. H. John Heinz III had active interests. Beck’s groundbreaking research in the 1960s created the field of cognitive therapy, which is now the fastest-growing and most extensively studied form of psychotherapy in the United States. Influential Hispanist honored
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'Twas Brillo! The art world took notice
It was just a carton of soap pads. Then Andy Warhol copied it. After that, it became an icon that forced everyone to ask anew, What is art? Arthur Danto, Columbia philosophy professor and art critic for The Nation, has spent more than three decades examining the effect of Warhol’s “Brillo Box” on our understanding of art. And on Jan. 31, in what he called “the last of the ‘Brillo Box’ talks,” Danto mused again on what makes art art.
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Penn seeks wisdom from Pequot rep
In the early days of what became the United States, colonial settlers and Native Americans studied and broke bread together at such places as Harvard, William and Mary and Dartmouth. Now, more than three centuries later, one would be hard pressed to find Native American faces among the students and faculty of these schools and their peers, including Penn.
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Greenhouse helps greenhorns cultivate Web sites
Everybody is doing it. Maybe even your grandmother has posted her own Web page complete with photos of her favorite grandchildren and fluffy white cats. Or maybe you think that Javascript is something to read during a coffee commercial. Perhaps you do know a little something about the Web, but you or your student organization is finding it hard to attract others because you’re using outdated programming languages, the Web equivalent of scrawls on a cave wall.
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"Our universe is a very strange cosmic cocktail."
Max Tegmark, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, on recent research supporting evidence that most of the universe is composed of undetectable “dark matter” (United Press International, Feb. 2).