February 2005

02/28/05 Did You Know...that Penn's Men's Basketball team became the first team to secure a spot in this year's NCAA tournament? Penn's 80-72 victory over Columbia this past Saturday not only earned them their 21st trip to the NCAA Tournament, but also the Ivy League title. Hurrah for Pennsylvania!

Read all about it at:
sports.espn.go.com
www.pennathletics.com
www.dailypennsylvanian.com

02/21/05 Did You Know...that a $10 million gift from an anonymous donor will create four endowed University professorships? The gift is the first significant one to Penn Integrates Knowledge, a University-wide initiative to recruit faculty members to Penn whose research and teaching exemplify the integration of knowledge across disciplines.

For the complete press release, see:
http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/article.php?id=752

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02/18/05 Did You Know...that pictures really are worth a thousand words, or in this case, five important ones?

(Taken during the Penn vs. Princeton Men's Basketball game on February 8th which Penn won 70-62 in overtime)

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02/14/05 Did You Know... that the University Archives lists the distinguished men and women of the University of Pennsylvania--congressmen, ambassadors, Nobel Prize winners, signers of the Declaration of Independence, trustees, and others?

See the full lists at the archives website at:
http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/notables/notables.html

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02/04/05 Did you know... that a photo in the Penn Library's Marian Anderson Collection is the inspiration for a United States Black Heritage commemorative stamp? The stamp, depicting opera singer and Philadelphia native Anderson wearing a burgundy colored dress, is based on a black-and-white 1934 Mois Benko photograph housed at the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Read the University press release, view the collection of photographs, and view the USPS stamp.

February 24
Michael Delli Carpini, Penn alum and dean of the Annenberg School for Communication, talks about how he's taking the school global and wrestling with new technology--and why getting your news from "The Daily Show" may not be such a bad thing. [more]

February 16
Penn alumnus and former University Vice President Pedro Ramos has been appointed managing director for the City of Philadelphia, the second most important post in the city according to the city charter. Ramos will be the highest ranking Latino official in the history of Philadelphia government. [more]

February 11
Nursing School alumna Jennifer Hall heals the hearts of Iraqi children and their families -- both literally and figuratively. Hall has been working in Amman, Jordan since October for the philanthropic organization Brothers Together. [more]

February 3
At a recent Emory University panel discussion , a few notable academics got together to discuss hip-hop’s impact for their fifth annual State of Race forum. Michael Eric Dyson, a humanities professor at the University of Pennsylvania, said hip-hop has become a kind of scapegoat. "Music should not be burdened with what you and I should be doing as members of society," Dyson said.The event focused on issues ranging from education to poverty--issues the panelists stressed existed long before hip-hop. [more]