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Varsity faves
How ’bout that, sports fans? Nothing succeeds like success, we guess. We asked a random sample of undergraduate Pennsylvanians what their favorite varsity sports teams were, and — big surprise! — the Quaker men’s basketball and football squads topped the list of fan faves.
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Thouron Scholar builds a strong foundation
Nearly a year after the deaths in 1995 of his mother and older brother, Penn law student Omari Simmons (L’99), 26, created a foundation in their honor. He raised money for the Simmons Memorial Foundation, benefiting poor students in rural Delaware. That same year, he gave out the first Cynthia T. Simmons Memorial scholarship — named after his mother, a Delaware elementary science teacher, who died in a car accident just a month before her oldest son, recent college graduate Nathaniel P. Simmons III, died from kidney disease.
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New program, new head
Malcolm Bonner, Ed.D., has been named the first director of the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program (“McNair Scholars”) at the University of Pennsylvania. The McNair Scholars program is a U.S. Department of Education-funded program that encourages high-achieving college juniors and seniors from underrepresented groups to pursue graduate and doctoral study. The program, named for the physicist who died in the 1986 Challenger space shuttle explosion, currently operates on more than 100 college campuses nationwide; Penn’s program is the first in the Ivy League.
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“Food and Drink in Medieval Poland: Rediscovering a Cuisine of the Past”
Maria Dembinska. Magdalena Thomas, translator. Edited and adapted by William Woys Weaver 256 pages, 40 illustrations, $29.95 cloth Lavender vinegar, saffron wafers, chicken baked with prunes, pears stewed with cucumbers and figs ... there is something wonderfully inviting about the unusual and exotic flavors that came to the medieval Polish table. By turns robust and refined, and capturing all the richness and complexity of Poland in the Middle Ages, this is cookery that flourished at the crossroads of Western and Oriental foodways.
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Nice catch, Doug
Look what Phillies centerfielder Doug Glanville (EAS’93) found when he went rummaging through the University of Pennsylvania Museum’s vast storerooms: a Teotihuacan jadelite mask from Central Mexico, dating back to the second century A.D.
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Asians emerge
An award-winning Chinese-American journalist and former executive editor of Ms. magazine spoke April 6 at the Veranda to a group of about 85 about Asians’ place in the American landscape. Helen Zia, author of the recent “Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People,” Zia said she wrote the book because the Asian-American community, the fastest-growing segment of the United States population, had reached a “critical mass.”
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Current gets gold medals
The judges liked our concept— that we had expected. But we hadn’t expected to beat the magazine writers at their own game. Along with a Gold Medal for Internal Audience Periodicals in this year’s CASE Circle of Excellence Awards, Pennsylvania Current won a Gold Medal for Periodical Staff Writing, a category dominated by glossy magazines such as co-winner Tulanian of Tulane University. “We were thrilled that our writing outshined the 4,000-word stories in the more heavily financed magazines,” said Editor Libby Rosof.
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And now, managed learning!
Now that welfare has had to change and health care has had to change, it’s higher education’s turn. When I asked a faculty colleague at a sister institution how we could benefit from their experiences, I received the following enthusiastic memo: “Our Restructuring Committee agreed early in its deliberations that in order for higher education to survive, it needed major reform. So after careful consideration, we have concluded that it is now time for the ‘managed care’ revolution to be applied to education.
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How the brain divides its labors
Using variously postal workers, computer simulations and photos of “Baywatch” babes, psychology Professor Martha Farah has studied why the brain is organized the way it is.
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Cross the heartland
Among the performers featured on “The World Cafe” these next two weeks are some Midwestern boys who’ve hit the big time: jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, Lee’s Summit, Mo.’s favorite son, and alt-rockers the Jayhawks from the next state west. But the rest of the country’s well-represented too. Thursday, April 20 Folk/jazz legend in the making Terry Callier drops by the World Cafe studios