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August 31, 2000
Best book
Barbie
Zelizer, Ph.D., Raymond Williams Term Chair and associate professor
of communication, received the Best Book Award for Remembering to
Forget: Holocaust Memory Through the Cameras Eye (Chicago)
from the International Communication Association in May.
Foreign study fellowships
Clarissa
Surek-Clark, a graduate student in linguistics, has received a Fulbright
Fellowship to study in South Africa. Of 16 Penn students awarded Fulbrights
for study abroad this year, Surek-Clark is one of 12 accepting the award.
(For other recipients, see Current, May
4 and May 18.) The 16th Fulbright
was awarded to and declined by Sujata Gosalia (C/W00), who will
study in the United Kingdom as a Thouron Scholar.
D.
S. Neil Van Leeuwen (C00), a student in classical studies, has
won a Lionel Pearson Fellowship to study for a masters degree in
classical languages and literature at Oxford University.
Top communicator
Joseph N. Cappella, Ph.D., professor of communications, took office
as president of the 3,200-member International Communication Association
June 1.
Originally published on August 31, 2000
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“I really do see the wait list as the final touches to a class.”
Eric J. Furda, dean of admissions at Penn, on students who are neither accepted nor rejected from a school. Last year, Penn offered 87 students admission off its active wait list of 1,200. (Philadelphia Inquirer, April 23, 2013)
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