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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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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."
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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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Michael Rose
The stage was dark at the Annenberg Center far too often when Michael Rose arrived at Penn three years ago. Since then, he’s lit up the stage not only at Annenberg, but in Irvine Auditorium and other places on campus.
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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