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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.
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Czech bounces between two worlds
If you knew Tereza Slepickova (C’00) only by her curriculum vitae, you might imagine her as a scowling, prematurely middle-aged woman who never encountered an abstruse political theory she didn’t like. You’d be wrong. But the mistake would be understandable. A native of the Czech Republic, Slepickova graduates from Penn this spring with a double major in international relations (honors) and German studies plus minors in economics and political science — and with a G.P.A. of 3.9 out of 4.0.
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“Building America’s First University: An Historical and Architectural Guide to the University of Pennsylvania”
George E. Thomas and David B. Brownlee 400 pages, 374 black-and-white and 16 color illustrations, 5 maps, $45.00 cloth “Building America’s First University” tells a story that begins with Benjamin Franklin’s notion that learning ought not to be restricted to a leading religion or class. His college’s original emphasis on modern languages, the natural sciences, contemporary literature and professional education, radical in its time, went on to become the model of American higher education.
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Two Guggenheims, 11 Fulbrights
Among 182 scholars and artists designated to receive this year’s John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships are Penn faculty members Hai-Lung Dai, Ph.D., Professor and Chairman of Chemistry, who will study chemical reaction control, and Robert Blair St. George, Ph.D., Professor of Folklore and Folklife, who will study the spoken language and oral poetics in early New England.
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Up against the wall
Jane Golden started out as a graffiti-buster, turning Philadelphia “writers” into legitimate muralists and Philadelphia into the mural capital of America through the city’s Mural Arts Program. Native Philadelphian Stephen Powers managed to avoid her influence, and now “improves” metal security grates across New York with his bold tag “ESPO” (Exterior Surface Painting Outreach).
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Five first steps
The University committee charged with reviewing Penn’s research on human subjects has identified five things Penn can do right now to improve its methods, including requiring researchers to disclose conflicts of interest and hiring outside monitors for research projects whose funding does not provide for them.
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A challenge to old sex rules on campus
For the better part of a decade, a group of subversives within the University has been spreading its radical agenda to an unsuspecting audience. Along the way, it did raise a few minor ruckuses, but by and large it has been quietly successful, converting others here and at other campuses to the cause. The radical notion these subversives have been promoting is that sex should be a matter of mutual consent and respect. And on April 24, they and their supporters met in the Fox Student Art Gallery to celebrate the publication of their latest manifesto.
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Do these numbers add up?
Critics of affirmative action now tout plans that guarantee college admission to a percentage of a state’s high school graduates. Last month, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights issued a report urging caution in using such plans. We spoke with Commission Chairperson Mary Frances Berry about why the commission decided to enter the fray. Here’s what she said: