CAMPUS BUZZ
BY SANDY SMITH
Transplanted: Rick Lewandowski, director of horticulture and curator of the living collection at the Morris Arboretum, will put down roots at the Mt. Cuba Center for the Study of Piedmont Flora in Greenville, Del., starting this month. Lewandowski supervised the transformation of the Arboretum from a quiet estate into a top-flight botanical garden and rebuilt its plant collection during his 16 years there...And speaking of transplants: Arboretum staff moved seven 20-foot-tall dawn redwoods from the Bloomfield Farm research facility to a new memorial grove located near the Arboretum's sculpture garden Dec. 17. The seven trees joined 12 others already in place at what will become a living memorial to the late Steven Murray, former vice president for business services.
Can't touch this: Wharton School administrators are taking sexual harassment seriously - very seriously. After word came down from the Provost's Office that schools had to make employees aware of Penn's sexual harassment policies, faculty at the school received a 10-page document describing in detail what constitutes sexual harassment, a set of guiding principles (for example: "Do not refer to body parts.") and procedures to follow if someone files a sexual harassment complaint. To make sure everyone understood, recipients were asked to sign and return the document to the school dean's office.
All bioethics, all the time: A new feature on the MSNBC Web site brings 'Net-surfers all the latest news in the field of bioethics, courtesy of Penn's Center for Bioethics. The "Breaking Bioethics" site is the work of MSNBC Senior Editor Charlene Laino and Assistant Professor of Bioethics Glenn McGee, who also edits the "Breaking Bioethics" section in the Cambridge Quarterly in Healthcare Ethics.
We'll drink to that: Peter Thompson, author of "Rum Punch and Revolution" (see "Bookquick," page 2) and Folklore and Folklife Professor Robert St. George talked taverns with WHYY-FM's Marty Moss-Coane on "Radio Times" Jan. 13. Thompson discussed the role of taverns in colonial and revolutionary Philadelphia, while St. George talked about the material culture of early American inns.
Penn in ink: Sociology Professor Douglas Massey told the Dallas Morning News Jan. 3 that it was hypocritical to let goods, money and ideas - but not people - move freely across the U.S.-Mexico border under the North American Free Trade Agreement. "International migration serves as the poor person's MasterCard," he said... Soon-to-be-former Wharton Dean Thomas Gerrity had one main reason for stepping down, according to an interview in the Dec. 14 Financial Times. What was it? "I made a vow to myself that I wanted to be a good dad," he said. Will business school deans elsewhere emulate this latest Gerrity innovation?...And on Christmas Day, Associate Psychology Professor Robert DeRubeis told Los Angeles Times readers that talking about grief in the wake of the loss of a loved one with others might be good for the soul.
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