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October 28, 1999 NEWS BRIEFS Piece of cake In a White House ceremony hosted by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton Oct. 21, President Judith Rodin and three others received the 1999 Sara Lee Frontrunner Awards, which honor women in the arts, business, government and the humanities whose trailblazing accomplishments have both shaped America’s past and given inspiration for the future. The award includes a $50,000 cash donation to a group of the honoree’s choice that serves women; Rodin chose Penn’s Women’s Studies Program to receive the gift. Others honored this year were culinary icon Julia Child, U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexis M. Herman, and executive vice president of Kraft Foods, Inc., Anne Fudge. EcoWharton Out of the 60 graduate business schools that teach environmental and social topics, only Wharton and the University of Michigan were identified as being at the “cutting edge” in both areas in the annual survey of the World Resources Institute and the Aspen Institute’s Initiative for Social Innovation. The school was honored at an awards ceremony Oct. 7 at Citigroup’s headquarters in New York. TechnoWharton Penn’s Wharton School was the only Ivy League business school to receive a ranking in Computerworld’s third annual survey of the “25 Top Techno-MBA Programs,” a list notable for its exclusion of other top business programs such as MIT and Harvard. Techno-MBA programs combine a standard MBA curriculum with a background in technology. Number one in the rankings was Northeastern University in Boston. Penn came in 12th. The rankings, featured in Computerworld’s Sept. 27 issue, were based on a poll of 1,000 campus recruiters and surveys sent to approximately 350 U.S. colleges and universities that offered graduate programs.