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LEADERSHIP
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Riepe then...
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Riepe Succeeds Vagelos as
Trustee Chairman
Whaterver else he may accomplish in his tenure, the new chairman of Penn’s
board of trustees has already achieved one distinction: As far as we can
tell, he’s the first to have appeared on the cover of the Gazette
as an undergraduate. "Football Captain Jim Riepe" gazes from the front
of the October 1964 issue. On June 18, 1999, the man he grew up to become—James
S. Riepe W’65 WG’67, vice chairman of the Baltimore-based investment-management
firm T. Rowe Price Associates—was elected to succeed Dr. P. Roy Vagelos
C’50 Hon’99 as head of the University’s top decision-making
body. Continued...
PERSONNEL
/ ARTS
Gould Takes Over at ICA
Claudia Gould, executive director
of Artists Space, a Manhattan-based arts organization and exhibition space,
has been named the new director of the Institute of Contemporary Art.
She starts September 7, succeeding Patrick T. Murphy, who announced last
fall that he was returning to his native Dublin as director of exhibitions
for the Royal Hibernian Academy after almost nine years at the helm of
the ICA. Continued...
RESEARCH
My Shrink’s OK,
Your Pill’s OK
When Dr. Robert DeRubeis began
writing up the results of a recent study about the effectiveness of cognitive
therapy for severely depressed patients, he and the two graduate students
assisting him found themselves approaching the task with even more than
the usual professional caution.
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RESEARCH
Plant’s
Taste for Heavy Metal is in the Genes
Picture a landfill, rife with
toxic heavy-metal wastes like cadmium, arsenic and mercury. (This does
not require an overly active imagination: there are thousands of such
sites in the United States today.) Now picture that same landfill covered
with genetically engineered plants that absorb that waste and store it
in what Dr. Philip Rea, associate professor of biology, refers to as their
"intracellular landfills." Then picture those plants being harvested,
the metals recovered or safely disposed of–and the landfill being
removed from the EPA’s list of dangerously toxic sites without bankrupting
the Treasury. Continued...
AROUND
CAMPUS
EEOC Says Penn
Engaged in Gender Discrimination
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission has determined that the University engaged in gender discrimination
two years ago when it hired a woman crew coach without considering a male
coach who wanted the job ["Gazetteer," March 1998]. The ruling
carries no legal penalty, though the EEOC has the option of filing a federal
suit against the University, as does the aggrieved coach. Continued...
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