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RESEARCH
Innocence
for Sale
For
Dr. Richard Estes, professor
in the School of Social Work, it was infuriating enough to see the child
prostitutes being offered on street corners in places like Indonesia.
Then he began to investigate the problem back home. Continued...
STUDENT
SERVICES A
Home on the Walk for Grad Students
It has a long,
airy lounge, with
a 1950s-style fireplace, overstuffed chairs and sofas, and plenty of coffee.
Continued...
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RESEARCH
One
Small Step for Fuel Cells …
Developing a
fuel cell that can
run on ordinary diesel fuel was not a huge step for a team of Penn chemical
engineers. But it was an important one nonetheless. Continued...
BRICKS
AND MORTAR New
Home for Hillel
“We’re
building a community
that encompasses
all aspects of the Jewish community and that sees itself proudly as an
integrated part of the broader University,” said Rabbi Howard Alpert,
a week before last month’s groundbreaking ceremony for Steinhardt Hall,
the new home of Hillel at the University. Continued...
GIFTS
A
Gift for Learning
The
Wharton School
will
have a
new “learning lab,” courtesy of a $10 million gift from Alfred P. West
Jr. WG’66. It will, the school says, “create a series of innovative learning
tools that challenge students to think strategically across business functions
and organizations.” Continued...
 Dr. Afaf Meleis |
APPOINTMENTS
A
Global Dean for Nursing
The
School of Nursing has a new
dean: Dr. Afaf I. Meleis, a prolific nursing scholar in the University
of California system. A prominent medical sociologist, the Egyptian-born
Meleis spent most of the past 30 years at UC-San Francisco, as professor
in the nursing school’s Department of Community Health Systems and as
an associate in nursing for the Nursing Service. Continued...
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RANKINGS |
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High Five for Penn The
University’s steady rise in the national rankings continued,
as it tied for fifth place (with Stanford University and MIT)
in U.S. News & World Report’s most recent rankings
of national universities. Penn, which earned an overall score
of 95 in the magazine’s sometimes- controversial grading system,
trailed only Princeton, Harvard, Yale, and Cal Tech. The rankings
were published in U.S. News’ September 6 issue, whose
revised system put Penn in the “National Universities—Doctoral”
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