Sandy Smith

Give blood, Fido. Your life may depend on it some day. For more than a decade, the three Veterinary School nurses who comprise the Penn Animal Blood Bank staff have been spreading this message to dog owners. The Penn Animal Blood Bank is the oldest volunteer-based animal blood program in the country, and its bloodmobile is the only one of its kind anywhere.

The event was billed as a conversation on globalization with financier-philanthropist George Soros. But Soros managed to add American foreign policy to the agenda at the Granoff Forum on International Development and the Global Economy April 8.

The portable U-City: University City now fits in your jacket pocket, thanks to the University City District’s “University City Philadelphia Visitor’s Guide.” The guide, available at the UCD offices, 3940 Chestnut St., and local hotels and merchants, lists the area’s cultural, dining, shopping, lodging and recreational attractions, along with a listing of major events, a map, a

For Isabel Mapp, volunteering is not just her sideline. It’s her job.

The Penn Relays are not only America’s largest amateur track meet and the world’s oldest and largest relay meet. They are also the place where track fans get to see tomorrow’s Olympic stars today. “At some point in life,” said Penn Relays Director Dave Johnson, “you’ll be able to say [of an Olympic runner], Oh, I saw him before he was an Olympic star at the Relays.”

“I’m glad I put your coat in this closet. It reminds me that I promised to get this book off to Cherie.” Lawrence Sherman, director of the Jerry Lee Center for Criminology, has lots of friends in high places these days.

Why would a group of scientists spend more than a decade building an enormous cave deep underground just to hold a large bottle of water? Because that bottle of water would help them solve a nearly 30-year-old puzzle concerning the nature of the sun, a solution that made Science magazine’s list of the 10 Top Breakthroughs of 2001.

A higher calling: Vice Provost for Information Systems and Computing, Professor of Classical Studies, Hill College House Faculty Master Jim O’Donnell will be leaving Penn June 30 to become the provost of Georgetown University. Your Buzz correspondent predicts that his scholarly interest in St.

Blame it on Carl Sagan. His landmark PBS documentary series “Cosmos” got fourth-grader Debra Goldader hooked on the heavens, and she’s kept her gaze focused skyward ever since.

Got a family or behavioral health problem that affects your life and your job? Human Resources has a program for that—the Employee Assistance Program. Want to lose that spare tire or just get those muscles working? Human Resources has a program for that—the Discount Fitness Club Program.