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What Hath ENIAC Wrought? Historic Images At near right, pages from The Four Gospels, a treasure of the Tuesday, Vatican Collection. King Tut, to the right January 30, 1996 of it, and the Sphinx on the cover, are among Volume 42, Number 18 the images most requested via the African Studies Program’s Web site. What Hath ENIAC Wrought? As the celebration of its 50th Anniversary counts down to February 14, this issue presents a short history of the invention that changed world communications (pp. 4-7), and two Compass features on one of the most popular offspring of Out of Africa ENIAC: the Penn African Studies Over 250,000 times a month, someone calls up the Penn African Program’s online resource (pp. 8-9). Studies Program Web Page, rich in images of the vast and varied Please see the back cover for African continent as well as in texts, maps and scholarly exchanges. more images of Africa. As described in the Compass feature on pages 8-9, the Program is now © The Smithsonian 1994 a resource for Philadelphia teachers as well as for advanced scholars throughout the world. These samples, necessarily in black and white, In this Issue show some of the range that has brought commendation from the 2 Bulletins; PPSA Notice; Chair for Dr. Doherty; Library of Congress among others. Penn's Way Final Figures 3 Thanks to the Blizzard Crews; New JA: Dr. Perlmutter Africa Today Careers in Academia; Stunning in color HERS for Penn Women on the Web are women from the 4 ENIAC at 50: A Short History Afar region of 8-12 Compass Features Ethiopia, near right, and from 8-9 The Best On-line Resource the Djbouti on Africa; Local Schools Access Republic,wearing Africa through Penn typical jewelry. 10 A Walking Wheelchair Design South Africa’s 11 Penn’s High in Media Visibility President Nelson 12 Human Resources Q and A Mandela, in a 1990 photograph 13 Research Foundation Guidelines by Richard 14 OPPORTUNITIES Hofmeister from 18 How to Read the W2 Form the Smithsonian 19 CrimeStats, Update Collection. 20 Images of Africa Pullout: February at Penn Above: a postman, c. 1935, is featured in the logo of The Hornet, an electronic information exchange based in Addis Ababa and linked to the African Studies Program via the Web. At left: One of the many images found under Wildlife via the African Studies home page. Rosenfeld Chair: Dr. Doherty Senate Office Has Moved Dr. Neil A. Doherty, professor of insurance and risk manage- The Faculty Senate office has moved ment, has been named to the Ronald A. Rosenfeld chair at the temporarily to 210 Houston Hall. Send Wharton School, established in 1986 by Mr. Rosenfeld, W ’61. It intramural mail to Box 12 College Hall/ was first held by Dr. William Pierskalla, the longtime deputy dean 6303 and email to burdon@pobox. for academic affairs at Wharton who left the University to become upenn.edu. The telephone number remains dean of UCLA’s Anderson School of Business. 898-6943. Dr. Doherty took his B.A. and B.Phil in economics from the — From the Senate Office University of York in 1968 and 1969, and his Ph.D. from England’s Comment on Perelman Quad Cranfield Institute of Technology in 1979. Before joining Penn in 1986, he taught at York and Cranfield, at the University of Zamia, VPUL Valarie Swain-Cade McCoul- lum has extended the deadline for com- University of Albert and University of Illinois. He was also an ment on the Perelman project’s space economic advisor to the United Kingdom’s Department of Health allocation plan for student activities (Al- and Social Security. manac January 23) to February 15. A widely published author and widely consulted specialist in insurance and public policy issues, Dr. Doherty’s recent books Friends of Moez: Update include Corporate Risk Management: A Financial Exposition After initially ruling last week that (McGraw Hill), The Financial Theory of Pricing Insurance Con- Dr. Doherty Gregory Pennington be tried as a juve- tracts (with S. D’Arcy, in the S.S. Huebner Foundation series). nile, Judge J. Temin of the Court of Com- Along with some 60 journal articles and book chapters, he has also written a number of influential mon Pleas reversed her decision on Fri- commissioned reports such as one which produced radical changes in British Petroleum’s global day. Pennington is now scheduled to be risk management policy; one on the harmonization of taxes within the EEC and its impact on the tried as an adult along with Antony Ar- United Kingdom’s insurance industry, and several in this country on earthquake insurance and cher, Dr. Wolfgang Ziller reports in his public policy. continuing Penn Web coverage of crimi- He is also called upon as an expert witness for taxpayers in U.S. Federal tax courts on captive nal proceedings against the five accused insurance cases, including those won in recent years by taxpayers Harper Robinson, Sears Roebuck/ in the murder of doctoral candidate Moez Allstate, and U Haul International. Alimohamed. Dr. Doherty has twice won the Journal of Risk and Insurance’s Clifford D. Spangler Award, Judge James Fitzgerald is to preside in given for articles that have “withstood the test of time”—in 1990 and again in 1994. He also ranked the trial of Archer and Pennington. Jury selection is scheduled to begin on Thurs- first in a 1989 survey of insurance research scholars, done for the Journal by Professors Larry Cox day at the Criminal Justice Center, 1301 and Sandra Gustavson, who ranked the field by quantity and quality of research. Three of his articles Filbert. Once the trial begins, Dr. Ziller also won the American Risk and Insurance Association’s prize for “best paper in the Journal” in the said, bus transportation will be made avail- years 1984, 1986 and l991. able for members of the Penn community who wish to attend the proceedings. Those interested should contact him by e-mail at Penn’s Way: Over $300,000 [email protected]. (The URL for daily Web reports is http://www.math. I would like to thank the University community for their participation in the 1996 upenn.edu/~wziller/moez.html.) Penn’s Way campaign. This year’s streamlined campaign gave us a chance to still Earlier Judge Temin decertified one contribute to our favorite charities, while minimizing the use of University personnel of the five defendants, Khaalis Edmond- and resources. This year’s campaign totals show that the people at the University care son; he was convicted in juvenile court of about making our community a better place to live. second-degree murder and other counts, — Carol Scheman, Vice President, Government and Public Affairs and awaits sentencing. Co-Chair, Penn’s Way ’96 Two of the four charged as adults, Antoine Saunders and Ollie Taylor, have pleaded guilty to murder in the first de- Number of % Total gree and other charges; their sentencing is School/Unit Employees Participants Participated Contributed expected in March. Annenberg Center 27 15 56% 810.00 Annenberg School 31 19 61% 1,985.00 Business Services 330 161 49% 7,159.00 Dental Medicine 406 58 14% 5,749.00 PPSA Development & Alumni Relations 182 110 60% 8,159.00 Engineering 217 86 40% 13,892.00 Executive Vice President 161 62 39% 4,219.00 Educational Fair: February 20 Facilities 736 126 17% 5,174.00 The Penn Professional Staff Assembly’s Finance 268 111 41% 8,198.00 Educational Fair will be held Tuesday, Febru- Graduate Education 173 60 35% 5,426.00 ary 20, in Bodek Lounge, first floor of Houston Graduate Fine Arts 73 16 22% 1,280.00 Hall from noon-2 p.m. PPSA also has invited Human Resources 65 38 58% 5,340.00 the A-3 Assembly to participate in this event. Info Systems & Computing 149 69 46% 5,783.00 The fair will provide information on Penn’s Intercollegiate Athletics 86 25 29% 886.00 part-time educational opportunities including Law School 118 60 51% 15,152.00 program descriptions, application procedures, Libraries 232 72 31% 6,845.00 employee tuition benefits and applicable taxes. Medicine 2264 465 21% 98,412.00 Morris Arboretum 28 17 61% 1,249.00 Organizations represented are: Museum 90 40 44% 3,752.00 Benefits College of General Studies Nursing School 154 36 23% 3,497.00 Dynamics of Organization President 84 60 71% 6,393.20 Fels Center of Government Provost 219 118 54% 8,822.00 Graduate School of Education School of Arts & Sciences 917 281 31% 36,896.00 Nursing School Social Work 56 26 46% 4,471.00 SEAS Student Service University Life 274 139 51% 10,125.00 SEAS Veterinary Medicine 538 92 17% 11,088.00 Training and Organizational Development Wharton 570 197 35% 23,624.00 Tax Accounting Office Total 8448 2559 30% $304,386.20 Wharton Evening Division 2 ALMANAC January 30, 1996 After the Blizzard: Succession at JA: Dr. Perlmutter Dr. Daniel Perlmutter, professor of Thanks from the President... chemical engineering, takes office this week as University Judicial Administrator, the Provost has announced. An open letter to the Penn community: Dr. Perlmutter succeeds Dr. Stephen When I arrived at Penn, I knew that the caliber of staff and faculty was Gale, associate professor of regional sci- outstanding. In my 18 months here, I have seen daily examples of your ence and director of the Dynamics of Orga- loyalty and talent, but, without question, your efforts during the Blizzard nization program, who served as JA from of ’96 were superlative.
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