April 11, 2002

• Special Report: Spring into action and discover the campus
  Fitness, summer camps, outdoor adventures, the Penn Relays—the campus springs into action with the warmer weather. How about you?
• Current staff picks recreation favorites
• Camps for good sports
• New ideas shape campus health club expansion
• Outdoor adventures
• Penn Relays: The oldest, the biggest, the best in the nation
• Salute to a Penn Relays trailblazer of Olympic stature

• Heads up for health care plan changes
• Future lawyers brief Supreme Court early
• Record-setting gift goes to bioengineering

• Research: Truth and deception—the brain tells all
• Staff Q&A: Isabel Mapp occupies a unique staff position that links volunteers to people who need their help.

• Ask Benny: The readers weigh in on Addams house
• EU is facing identity crisis
• Safer bikes through research

• Event Listings
• Editor's Pick: Docufest comes of age
• Conference Call: A Children's Festival first
• People's Choice: Spring cleaning tips from the pros

• News Briefs
• Bookquick from the University Press
• Quoted Recently
• At Work with... Stefany Jones
• Campus Buzz

Office of University Communications home page

NEWS BRIEFS

Kids enroll now

While the school year isn’t over yet, the Penn-assisted school is already thinking about next year’s batch of new students. Registration for students enrolling in kindergarten and grades 1, 2, 5 and 6 is now taking place noon to 5 p.m. Mondays and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesdays at the school’s Planning Office, located at 43rd and Spruce streets. If the child is already in the Philadelphia public schools, bring proof of residency in the catchment area. New registrants bring a birth certificate, proof of residency in the catchment area and immunization records. The school will host an open house April 11, 7 p.m. More info at www.upenn.edu/publicschool or call 215-573-6122.

Bronze age

Findings from Penn’s archaeological research in Thailand have now hit bookshelves. “Ban Chiang, a Prehistoric Village Site in Northeast Thailand I: The Human Skeletal Remains” (University of Pennsylvania Museum, 2002) is part of one of the two largest studies of ancient skeletal remains ever undertaken in Thailand. The discovery, made jointly with Thailand’s Fine Arts Department in the early ’70s, has revolutionized thinking about Southeast Asia’s past, providing evidence for a bronze age culture engaged in interregional trade and large-scale metal production.

E-musings

All the latest about the University of Pennsylvania Museum is now available in E-Musings, a free electronic newsletter that gives subscribers instant access to special events, exhibitions, new publications, shop specials and ground-breaking anthropological and archaeological research. Subscribers can even put in their two cents and give the Museum director and staff input on museum issues. Sign up at www.upenn.edu/museum.