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The bulletin board in Colleen Gasiorowski’s office is covered with pets. More are on the shelves and cabinet tops. Her pets. Also her friend’s. And an animal she’s working with at the Women’s Humane Society. She’s been volunteering there for four years, and just last May they elected her to their Board of Directors. That same month she earned her Masters in Liberal Arts from the College of General Studies, with a focus on forest systems, ecology and environmental issues.
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Vice President for Business Services Lee Nunery’s got the white shirt and suit. But the tie is a surprise. It’s inspired by an object in the University of Pennsylvania Museum’s collection. It’s a subtle sort of branding, an object-oriented way to increase Penn’s name recognition in the world at large. Administrators had been considering it for years, but it took Nunery to make it happen. He joined Penn last year after working in banking, and before that as vice president of the NBA, responsible for business development and human resources.
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Pennsylvania State Treasurer Barbara Hafer, a Republican, and Democratic State Senator Allyson Schwartz urged women to “reclaim the power of the vote” at a rally at the Annenberg Center Sept. 28. The bipartisan pair were the featured speakers at the “When Women Vote, Women Win!” leadership forum, urging women to participate in politics, especially in this year’s presidential election. “We cannot afford to sit on the sidelines,” Schwartz said, citing issues that influence women’s votes such as health care, environmental issues and gun control.
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PHILADELPHIA- Ari Alexander, a senior at the University of Pennsylvania, is among 40 American students to win one of the nation's highest undergraduate honors, the 2001 Marshall Scholarship. The British Marshall Scholarship funds two years of graduate study in the United Kingdom. More than 1000 students applied for the scholarship this year.
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A professor who teaches a class on ethics and technology sees the issues around Napster a little differently than his students do. But both say Napster deserves to survive. “While it’s primarily used right now for copyright violation, it’s a general-purpose tool for sharing information across a large number of computers,” said RCA Professor of Artificial Intelligence Mitchell Marcus. “Software that allows peer-to-peer sharing of information across large networks will actually be important for uses that are legitimate.”
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Just because some famous person lifted material from a classmate’s paper when in college doesn’t mean it’s OK to plagiarize. And though it may cost in the short run, in the end, ethical behavior is its own reward. These are some of the messages that will be delivered by scholars, researchers, and a noted whistle-blower during Academic Integrity Week, which begins Monday, Oct. 23. And this year, it’s not just a Penn observance. Mayor John Street has proclaimed a citywide observation and will present a copy of the proclamation to President Judith Rodin on Friday, Oct. 27.
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David Goodhand (C’85) and Vincent Griski (W’85) left Penn with more than a good education. They left with each other, and with fond memories of the place where they met — a place where they both say they felt comfortable and supported as gay men. Now, 15 years out, the couple is returning that support in a big way. On Oct. 11, during the National Coming Out Day rally on Penn Commons, Goodhand and Griski announced that they were donating $2 million to the University for a new home for the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Center.
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Steve Garlinger never considered himself the academic type. “When I was in high school, I took a trade-prep course in carpentry,” he said. “I was into the practical part, but not the book part. I did just enough bookwork to pass my courses and get out of there.” Now, after a stint in the Army, two jobs and three decades, he’s found out he was wrong about himself, much to his delight. And it happened purely by chance.
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Two Penn professors have won prestigious David and Lucile Packard Foundation Awards, giving them each a grant of $625,000 for their research, which has included Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia. Packard selected them and 22 others as the “most promising science and engineering researchers at universities in the United States.”
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We all know what tango is about. It’s that sultry Latin dance form that’s all about seduction, jealousy and the tension between men and women, right?