UNIVERSITY of PENNSYLVANIA
Almanac

Tuesday,
February 11, 1997
Volume 43, Number 21

IN THIS ISSUE

On the Cover: Korean Studies at Penn

Benefits Redesign: Report and Meetings

Council Agenda: Benefits and Other Topics

Grants for Undergraduate Course Development

Alumni Funds for Students in the College

Computer Repairs

Deaths: Dr. Koelle, Dr. Kleinzeller, Photographer Frank Ross

COMPASS Features
-- Kidnapped by Books
-- On the Shelf: Books by Penn Faculty
-- At PennMed, Practicing Disabilities

OPPORTUNITIES

PennPrintout Digest

Update

CrimeStats

Valentine Skating Party

Benchmarks: The New World of Technology Transfer

Pullout: For Comment: Benefits Programs: Review and Recommendations; (Acrobat Version [140 k])


For Korean Studies at Penn: A $5 million commitment was made last week when President Judith Rodin and Ambassador Joungwon Kim--who also heads the Korea Foundation--signed an agreement for the University and the Foundation to endow professorships in Korean Studies. See On the Cover.

Photo by Jake Wong, courtesy of The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Illustrations at top, courtesy of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library's East Asian Bibliographer Karl Kahler, show a Tiger by Sim Sa-jong (1707-1770), on a background of calligraphy in the Chinese style and in the Korean hangul, from the 1447-48 Dictionary of Proper Korean Pronunciations of Chinese Characters.


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