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A summer sampler
“World Cafe” regulars know they can expect everything from big names to undiscovered gems on the show. With that in mind, we’re not even going to try to pigeonhole the coming month’s featured performers — besides, it’s not in the spirit of the Cafe. Have a great summer! Thursday, June 1 Ween visit the studio to perform music from their latest album, “White Pepper”
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Summer in the city
We had hoped to be able to give you the complete rundown on all the fun activities the Summer Sessions staff have lined up for the lazy season in the day-to-day listings above. Unfortunately, Summer Sessions Director Valerie Ross and her colleagues were still hard at work snaring faculty and booking films and trips, so instead of giving you details, you’ll have to settle for the big picture here. For those of you who were around last summer, all of your favorite events are back again this summer.
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Two from Hughes
Two University faculty performing research in genetics were among 48 scientists in the nation named Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigators last month, an honor that will give them long-term funding for their research and pay their salaries while allowing them to remain on the faculty.
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Knowledge is for healing
At a forum honoring the University Library’s 250th anniversary on Alumni Weekend, three world-renowned panelists grappled with the question, “Knowledge: What for?” They consisted of Nobel Laureate Laurence R. Klein, Benjamin Franklin Professor Emeritus of Economics; Mary Ann Hopkins, an attending physician at Bellevue Hospital, New York University Medical Center, and a spokeswoman for Doctors Without Borders, which won the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize; and Ian McHarg, winner of the Japan Prize for city planning and professor emeritus of landscape architecture.
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“That image of old buildings with ivy, you go in, it’s hot there, it was Ivy League, you know?”
The last American civilization major at the University of Pennsylvania loves his alma mater and employer truly, madly, deeply, the way a father loves his child.
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Royal Society elects Ewens
Warren J. Ewens, Ph.D., professor of biology, is among 49 scientists worldwide elected Fellows of the Royal Society this month. Election to the Society is recognized internationally as a sign of the scientific community’s highest regard.
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Jeremy Kraus
By the time Jeremy Kraus graduated from the Wharton School in 1998, he was already founder and president of his own company, Jeremy’s MicroBatch Ice Creams. Since then he’s been building a Gen-Y empire, based on the world-view that change can be really, really good, especially if it makes ice cream taste like a cinnamon bun or a bottle of stout. At 24, Kraus, who was raised in Dallas, is the youngest person to have taken a non-dot-com company public.
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NAS and AAAS elect Penn faculty
One new Penn member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) studies how people learn to like — or dislike — foods. And Penn’s new National Academy of Sciences (NAS) member studies how the mind acquires language. They are two of five faculty members honored by election to the two academies.
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The hunt for Orange Julius Caesar
As a child, I wanted to be Indiana Jones. I envied his search for the unknown, battling unforeseeable odds to gain a bit of knowledge for mankind. Yet childhood and two sequels inevitably passed and I moved on to new heroes. Like the apostle Paul, I put away my childish things. Not so fast… Why, just last week I was standing in front of the forum in ancient Corinth. Well, I was virtually standing there, thanks to the Corinth Computer Project.
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How we’ll spend our summer “vacations”
Summer’s here, which means it’s time to take it easy. Yeah, right. Most of the students we collared on the Walk and in the dining halls had working vacations already lined up for this summer, and a few who didn’t were so embarrassed that they didn’t want us to use their answers. We did manage, though, to find a few people who plan to get some recreation and relaxation this summer.