Sandy Smith

Robert holds Cort: Producer Robert Cort C’68,G’70,WG’74 returned to his alma mater Feb. 18 to unveil his 52nd film, “Against the Ropes,” to an audience of undergraduates and film aficionados from the faculty, staff and community.

Obesity is now a global health issue. According to the World Health Organization, the top 10 leading risk factors for death in 2000 included four directly connected to obesity—hypertension, cholesterol, high body mass index and physical inactivity.

The University of Pennsylvania Health System has opened a new front in the ongoing fight to ensure top quality health care: It has called in the Delta Team to provide reinforcements for patient safety.

This Saturday is the day that’s made for lovers. So in the spirit of romance, we asked several Penn people to share with us their most memorable Valentine’s Day experiences—gifts or events, good or bad.

The finest fighting force in the world requires its troops to be in top physical condition before they go off to combat. That includes their teeth.

The city’s lawyer: Pedro Ramos C’87, President Judith Rodin’s chief of staff, will be joining his brother, first-term City Councilman Juan, at Broad and Market come March 1. That’s when Ramos’ appointment as city solicitor takes effect. In that post, Ramos will be the lead litigator on cases involving the city and the chief legal advisor to Mayor John Street.

The sight of a horde of Democrats pounding one another as they tromp through Iowa farms and New Hampshire hamlets has become a familiar election-year ritual. Associate Professor of Political Science Marie Gottschalk says that there’s a special twist to the 2004 version, though.

Distinguished scholar-educator Amy Gutmann has been nominated to serve as the eighth President of the University of Pennsylvania. Gutman, who is currently Provost and Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics at Princeton University, will assume office July 1, subject to approval by Penn’s Board of Trustees. That approval is expected at the Trustees’ Feb. 20 meeting.

“Why do they hate us?” This question, usually asked with a note of anguish, often arises when America is attacked or criticized for its actions, or even just for being America.

If planning the annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Symposium were left up to one person, it would be a full-time job all year.