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PENN
AND THE CITY
Mapping
Human Geography
“Properties
and people—that’s
the way I think about the two types of data we have here,” Dr. Dennis
Culhane is saying. “There’s property-specific data, and there’s data about
people.”
Continued...
APPOINTMENTS
Nathanson
Tapped for Research Post
Dr.
Neal Nathanson, the former
chair of microbiology in Penn’s Medical Center and, more recently, director
of the Office of AIDS Research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH),
was named vice provost for research, effective December 1.
Continued...
EXPERIMENTAL
RESEARCH
Ex-Inmates
Sue Penn and Kligman over Research
A group
of nearly 300 former prisoners
at Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia has filed a civil suit against the
University and Dr. Albert M. Kligman Gr’42 M’47 Int’51, emeritus professor
of dermatology, for carrying out experiments on them between 1961 and
1974. Continued...
ARCHAEOLOGY
Ancient
Cats, Kings and Goddesses Return
After
three years, six cities, 650,000
visitors and tens of thousands of traveling miles,
the 155 pieces that comprise the traveling exhibition “Searching for Ancient
Egypt: Art, Architecture and Artifacts from the University of Pennsylvania
Museum” have come back to Philadelphia. Continued...
GIFTS
A
Home in the Carriage House
David
Goodhand C’85 and Vincent
Griski W’85
met at Penn in 1983, began dating, and lived together in Stouffer House
as undergraduates. Now they are life partners—financially successful ones
at that—and this past fall they returned to announce a $2 million lead
gift for a new home for Penn’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT)
Center. Continued...
FORUM
What Should
I Wear?
Queen Marie
Antoinette of France—known
for her extravagance and her lack of sensitivity towards the masses—wore
a “saintly” white gown to her execution, said Dr. Caroline Weber, assistant
professor of Romance languages. The queen had smuggled it into prison
for the occasion. Continued...
EXPERIMENTAL
MEDICINE
Gelsinger
Family and University Settle
Six
weeks after filing a lawsuit against
the University and other parties over the death of 18-year-old Jesse Gelsinger
[“Gazetteer,” November/December],
the Gelsinger family agreed to an out-of-court settlement for an undisclosed
sum. The family had filed its suit on September 18 for wrongful death,
assault, battery, lack of informed consent and fraud; the agreement to
settle was announced November 3. Continued...
WEST
PHILADELPHIA
Investing
in Reasonable Rents
In order
to keep housing rents
reasonable in its back yard—and maybe do a better job on the upkeep of
those buildings—Penn has entered into the Partnership for Quality Housing
Choices in University City. Continued...
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ANTHROPOLOGY
A
Tangled Web, In More Ways Than One
This past fall,
Dr. M. Susan Lindee,
associate professor of the history and sociology of science, found herself
in the middle of one of the biggest controversies to rock the scholarly
and scientific world in recent memory. Continued...
VIRTUAL
LEARNING
Sophisticated
Dummies
Help Make Smart Nurses
You
might call SimMan a glutton
for punishment.
Go ahead—give
him an injection, using real IV fluids: his arm has all the anatomically
correct veins, and when they get worn out, well, there are more where
that patch of skin came from. Continued...
LIBRARY
Gifts
That Speak Volumes
It
began in 1784, when King Louis
XVI of France gave 100 bound volumes to what was then known as the University
of the State of Pennsylvania. Last year, a new round of bookish gifts
to Penn from heads of state coincided with the Library’s 250th anniversary
and the acquisition of its five-millionth volume. Continued...
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BRICKS
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Changing Partners for Sundance? The Sundance Cinema complex at 40th and Walnut Streets has been put on hold since October, when General Cinemas, which was providing most of the financing, filed for bankruptcy. The University is attempting to find another financial partner for the complex, which included plans for a restaurant, café and other amenities. According to Tom Lussenhop, Penn’s managing director of institutional real estate, “Penn and Sundance are both interested in an ongoing role for Sundance,” which is the creation of film legend Robert Redford. |
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AROUND
CAMPUS
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PAACH Fest As part of the University’s plan to revamp Locust Walk [“Gazetteer,” July/August], the Pan Asian-American Community House celebrated its grand opening at 3601 Locust Walk on November 11. (Among the celebrants were Clifford S. Lee GEd’98, above.) Joining PAACH in that space will be La Casa Latina, UMOJA, the Performing Arts Council, Student Performing Arts, the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships, and a satellite office of the Greenfield Intercultural Center. |
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HONORS
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New
Class Enters the Twenty-three former student-athletes and coaches were inducted into Penn’s Athletic Hall of Fame during a ceremony over Homecoming Weekend in November. According to Steve Bilsky W’71, Penn’s athletic director, the new class of inductees “spans 88 years of outstanding athletic achievement on the playing fields, swimming pool and basketball courts, and by inducting them into our Hall of Fame, we will be able to celebrate their greatness in the spirit and proud tradition of Penn Athletics.” This year’s inductees are:
The new class is the third to be inducted into the Hall since it was founded in 1996 by Bilsky, who himself became a member in 1998. The Hall was established in the memory of Jerome S. Shenker W’38 and is located in the Donaldson Room of Weightman Hall. |