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New & Notable on Campus
All-USA Academic Team Honors Three from the
College
Two seniors in the College - Jennifer Broder and
Rosalind Greenberg - were named to the 1996 All-USA
College Academic Second Team, while senior Oren
Becher earned an honorable mention. Eighty students
from across the nation were recognized for their
high academic achievements and desire to share
their talents with the world.
Mellon Foundation Renews Grant
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has renewed a major
grant to SAS designed to help reduce time-to-degree
for Ph.D. candidates in five key graduate programs:
classical studies, English, history, music, and
Romance languages. Funding in the amount of
$670,000 will be available in the first year of the
renewed grant, and the grant may be extended on a
year-by-year basis for an additional four years.
Computers and the Creative Mind
SAS joined the University-wide celebration of the
50th anniversary of ENIAC with "Computers and the
Creative Mind: A Celebration of the Arts,
Humanities, and Technology" in March. The program
began with lectures and presentations by video
artist Gary Hill, University of Florida Professor
of English and Media Studies Gregory L. Ulmer, and
SAS Associate Professor of Music James Primosch.
The second half of the program consisted of
performances by gestural control of music artist
Laetitia Sonami, who uses an electronically-wired
glove to compose music with her movements, and
pianist Aleck Karis, who performed computer-
influenced compositions by Penn composers and
others.
Renaissance Man Lectures at Dean's Forum
Dr. Jonathan Miller - physician, author, member of
the 1960s' British troupe "Beyond the Fringe,"
television producer and presenter, and director of
theater, opera and film - was the featured speaker
at the 12th Annual Dean's Forum in February. He
lectured on "The After-Life of Plays," discussing a
director's rights and responsibilities in
presenting a classic work.
Penn Press Reprints The Philadelphia Negro
W.E.B. DuBois embarked on a study in 1897 at Penn's
Department of Sociology that resulted in The
Philadelphia Negro, the first great empirical
book on the Negro in American society. Almost 100
years later, the Penn Press has reprinted this
classic work of social science literature with a
new introduction by Elijah Anderson, SAS's Charles
and William L. Day Professor of Social Science and
Professor of Sociology. Anderson writes, "...the
sobering consequences of America's refusal to
address the race problem honestly, which DuBois
predicted...now haunt all Americans with a renewed
intensity 130 years after emancipation."
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