Issue Contents
On the Front Page:
  • Committing Penn to Increased Levels of Service
  • Allan Pack: Inaugural John L. Miclot Professor of Medicine
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center's New Chief of Surgery

    • Memorial:
  • Mr. Sheahan, Penn Sophomore

    • Of Record:
  • Sexual Harassment Policy

    • Governance:
  • SENATE: SEC Actions

    Other News:
  • Felicity Paxton: Director of Penn Women's Center
  • NBIC Graduate Research Award
  • Honors and Other Things
  • Business Services Update
  • Employee Resource Fair
  • Constitution Day: September 17
  • Penn Humanities Forum: Celebrating 10th Anniversary
  • Benchmarks: Keeping the Light On: College Houses 10 Years Out

    • Bulletins:
  • One Step Ahead
  • Crucial Blood Drive
  • CrimeStats
  • Update
    • toptop
     

    Update
    September 16, 2008, Volume 55, No. 4
    Print Issue

    September AT PENN2008

    Exhibits

    Now

    The Body Politic: T-Shirts From the 2008 Presidential Campaign; photographs by Annenberg doctoral candidate Joel Penney; reception: September 18, 3 p.m.; The Forum, Annenberg School. Through November 15.

    MUSIC

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    The Ministry of Inside Things; 8 p.m.; St. Mary’s Hamilton Village; $20, $10/students; info.: www.thegatherings.org (Corporation for Innovative Music and Arts of PA)

    TALKS

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    CIS Research Seminar; Milo Martin, computer and information science; 3 p.m.; Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall (CIS).

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    Inside Secrets to Beating the High Costs of College with Little-Known Strategies;Moti Levi, former Penn professor; 6:30 p.m.; Walnut Street West Branch (Free Library of Philadelphia).

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    Distinguished Lecture; Zack Ives, computer and information science; 3 p.m.; Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall (CIS).

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    Should Different Regulatory Agencies Use Different Values of Statistical Lives?; Lisa Robinson, Harvard Center for Risk Analysis; 4:30 p.m.; rm. G50 Jon M. Huntsman Hall (Penn Law).

    Crucial Blood Drive: September 18

    The American Red Cross will hold a Faculty/Staff Blood Drive on Thursday, September 18 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m., in Cafe 58, on the first floor of Irvine Auditorium. There is an urgent need for blood right now; Types O+, O-, A- and B- all have less than a one day supply currently, and B+ and AB+ have barely enough for that same period. If you are eligible to donate, please do so during this crucial time. To sign up for this drive, go to http://givesblood.org/go.php?bdc=104302.

    If you are a first-time donor, here is what you need to know: you must be at least 17 years old, weigh at least 110 pounds, and have a photo ID with you. Eat a good meal before donation (breakfast or lunch, not just an apple or a banana). Be sure to double up on your water intake both the day before and after donation. Try to “iron up” before donation by eating plenty of green, leafy vegetables, raisins, beef, soy, to increase the iron level in your blood. If it is too low, you will be deferred from donating. If you have questions about your eligibility to donate, call the Red Cross at 1-800-GIVELIFE. Please, help save a life!

    —Evalyn Gelhaus, Serials Dept., Van Pelt Library

    Hopper

    The Locomotive by Edward Hopper, 1923, is the earliest work featured in the exhibition, Process in Print: The David and Susan Goode Collection.  The exhibition, at the Arthur Ross Gallery until November 2, highlights various printmaking methods such as aquatint, etching, intaglio, lithography, silkscreen and screen prints. It features such artists as Georges Braque, Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Alex Katz, Louis Lozowick, Robert Motherwell, Betty Waldo Parish, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol.

    Related: Constitution Day

    Deadlines: Submissions for the Update are due every Monday for the following Tuesday’s issue. The deadline for the October AT PENN is September 16.  For information see www.upenn.edu/almanac/calendar/caldead-real.html.
    Almanac - September 16, 2008, Volume 55, No. 4