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Biomedical Communications
Christine N. Jones has been appointed director of the Department
of Biomedical Communications. Ms. Jones had served as interim director since
the retirement of former director and founder Arthur N. Siegel in July after
36 years as director. A 1988 graduate of the University of the Arts in Medical/Scientific
Illustration, Ms. Jones joined the University that year as a medical illustrator.
She is a recent member of the Association of Biomedical Communications Directors
(ABCD), one of only four women in the country. Her work is published in
a dozen medical textbooks and many journal publications nationally and internationally.
Ms. Jones has also provided medical and legal artwork for area law firms
as well as work for TV news reports and video productions. |
Bookstore Manager
Kevin Renshaw was named manager of the Penn Bookstore effective
January 1. Mr. Renshaw has worked with Barnes & Noble College Bookstores,
Inc. for over six years including the past four years as the general manager
of the Columbia University Bookstore. Before assuming managerial responsibilities
at Columbia, Mr. Renshaw was store manager at Binghamton University Bookstore.
Mr. Renshaw holds a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts-Theater from Indiana
University of Pennsylvania. He also earned an associate's degree in Public
Affairs while serving in the U.S. Air Force. As an Armed Forces Radio and
Television broadcaster, he worked in Turkey and Greece. |
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Washington Semester Program
Dr. Kathryn Dunn Tenpas has been appointed associate director
of the University's Washington Semester Program, announced Dr. Jack Nagel,
director of the program. Dr. Tenpas will serve as the on-site leader and
teach the core seminar to all WSP students. She succeeds Dr. Mark Rozell,
who has become a tenured associate professor at Catholic University of America.
Dr. Tenpas received her Ph.D. in American Government from the University
of Virginia in 1993. Before joining Penn, she taught at the University of
South Florida, where she won the Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award
in 1998, Leiden University in the Netherlands and George Mason University.
She was presidency program chair for the 1999 Southern Political Association
Annual Meeting, and is currently a member of the Executive Council of the
Florida Political Science Association, and a board member of the American
Political Science Association's Presidency Research Group. Dr. Tenpas is
currently researching a book on presidential political consultants.
Horticulture at the Arboretum
Anthony Aiello, formerly a Morris Arboretum intern in 1987, has
returned as the new Director of Horticulture and Curator of Living Collections.
Most recently, Mr. Aiello served as curator of woody plants at the Chicago
Botanic Garden where he managed a diverse collection of 2,500 woody plant
taxa. Director Paul Meyer noted Mr. Aiello's "breadth of experiences
in curation, teaching and research are custom-made for this key Arboretum
position." In 1991, Mr. Aiello was selected for the prestigious Garden
Club of American Interchange Fellowship, which provided individualized training
at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, England and Edinburgh, Scotland. Subsequently,
he took a position as a woody plants researcher and instructor at the highly
respected horticulture program at Iowa State University.
Outgoing Chief Horticulturist and Rosarian Judy McKeon nurtured
the Arboretum's spectacular Rose Garden over her 15 years there. She started
as a trainee gardener in 1980. "Her management and horticultural skills
have contributed to the entire renaissance of the Arboretum," according
to Mr. Meyer. "Under her direction, the Rose Garden rose to international
fame." Although she is now working on a masters degree at Penn and
has started a consulting business helping homeowners as a horticultural
advisor she will continue to teach classes and volunteer at the Arboretum's
Plant Sale and Rare Plant Auction.
ICA's Curator to RISD
Judith Tannenbaum, at the Institute of Contemporary Art for the
past 14 years, will be leaving in May to become the first curator of contemporary
art at the Rhode Island School of Design's 123-year-old Museum of Art on
June 1.
Ms. Tannenbaum came to the ICA as assistant director and curator in 1986.
She has been associate director since 1990. Over the years she made her
mark in the art world and at ICA, having published extensively and curated
numerous exhibitions. Most memorable was her handling of the Mapplethorpe
photography exhibition at ICA in 1989. Her arguments defending ICA and the
artist (Almanac September 5, 1989) gained national attention.
Ms. Tannenbaum, who curated the current ICA exhibition of works by sculptor
Nancy Davidson, will produce one more show before she leaves: "Wall
Power"--an exhibit in collaboration with the Fleisher Art Memorial
and the city's Mural Arts Project which opens May 12.
Almanac, Vol. 46, No. 16, January 11, 2000
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