March 28, 2002

• Four new ways to get your life in shape
  A new Health and Wellness Program from Human Resources aims for your total well-being.
   
• A Palm Pilot for the Bard
  English Professor Peter Stallybrass uncovers Elizabethan-era erasable notebooks in the Folger Shakespeare Library.
   
• First chief privacy officer named
  Lauren Steinfeld's appointment is a first for Penn and for the Ivy League.

Event listings
Conference call: A k'atun passes
People's Choice: Philly reads at College and Bennett halls
 

• Research: Neutrino discovery makes a top 10 list
  Far below the surface, physicists find the answer to a 30-year-old mystery in a bottle of water.
   
• Student Spotlight: Grad-student parents form a playgroup
  A new program helps parents pursuing graduate degrees balance the demands of academe and parenthood.
  
  
• Staff Q&A: Debra Goldader
  The woman who runs Penn's observatories has had stars in her eyes since she was a kid. So can you.
  

News briefs
Quoted recently
Bookquick from the University Press
At Work with...Gates Rhodes
Campus Buzz

• Ask Benny: "We Lost" sculpture not linked to Vietnam
  Also: Can I switch my HMO when my doctor quits it without waiting for Open Enrollment?
   
• Genes mapped at warp speed
  Celera's brash CEO shares his shotgun approach to mapping the human genome.
   
• Take a bow
  The Penn Baroque and Recorder Ensembles warm up for a Houston Hall concert.
  
  
• Courses to use in your career
  Community Housing seminars get you started on the journey home.
  
  
• Mommy's Light helps a grieving family create their own ritual
  After a mother dies, a family remembers her by baking cookies.
  
  
• Out and About: Arboretum's flower show springs to life
  All of the splendor of spring flowers without the Convention Center crowds. Good advice, too.
   

 

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