Penn Medicine Radiology professor Marc Levine has received an Eminent Scientist of the Year Award 2006 from the International Research Promotion Council, based in India. Levine, both a clinician and a researcher, received the award for his research in gastrointestinal radiology, a field in which he has co-authored and published about 300 pieces of literature.

Crotchety old science professors are becoming a rarer breed, at least for students in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. In the last five years alone, Penn's Engineering School has made a total of 35 new hires, and over half of Engineering faculty were hired within the last eight years, according to Engineering School Dean Eduardo Glandt.

At $43,360, the cost of one year at Amherst College is nearly five times Yasmin Navarro's family's annual income of $9,000. But fortunately for Navarro, a freshman at the Massachusetts liberal arts college, Amherst is covering the full cost of tuition, room and board, and even books.

Sophomore Lauren Sadaka unexpectedly came out as one of the top competitors for the women's tennis team this weekend at the Cissie Leary Invitational. Last year, Sadaka was forced to cheer for her team from the sidelines due to a tendonitis injury in her wrist.

I am a Giants fan - perhaps one of the most blasphemous comments to make in the city of Philadelphia. I grew up playing catch with my dad in suburban New Jersey streets, and most Sundays, I knelt in front of the television screaming "defense" to unhearing white-and-blue defensive linesmen.

The Penn volleyball team came into this weekend's Sheraton-Penn Invitational at the Palestra having spent the past two weekends at tournaments in North Carolina and California. Tired and with a losing record, the team was in desperate need of some home cooking.

A small but enthusiastic audience at the Kelly Writers House got to learn what it takes to turn a book into art Saturday. Sandra Kroupa, book arts curator at the University of Washington Libraries, spoke about the challenges facing book artists and librarians involved in "book arts," using pictures, bindings, special paper and other materials to make books more than chunks of text.

This wasn't supposed to happen to the Penn offense - not after the test it passed in its opener against Lafayette. It looked as if quarterback Robert Irvin had already proven himself capable of getting the ball to his receivers, and Joe Sandberg had shown that he is the type of running back that can carry an offense.

Junior Jason Pinsky won the A-Flight at the Farnsworth/Princeton Invitational tennis tournament yesterday in Princeton, N.J., according to Penn head coach Mark Riley. Freshman Adam Schwartz lost in the consolation match. Other top Quakers, including senior Mikhail Bekker, took the weekend off to allow the freshmen on the team to get some playing time.

One weekend, not too long ago, I met a guy. He asked for my number, and two days later he called me.

The men's soccer team wasn't about to make the same mistake twice. After taking a lead against Harvard, the Quakers didn't wilt like they did against La Salle last Wednesday - they came back for more. Penn ended up a 3-1 winner, putting itself at the top of the Ivy League standings after the first weekend of league play.

WILMINGTON, Del. - Irina Malinovskaya admitted to police that she was outside the apartment where the body of Irina Zlotnikov was found on the day of her murder, according to a taped interrogation shown in court on Friday.

For Ann Dapice, when it comes to the situation of Native Americans in her home state of Oklahoma, one sentence sums a lot up: "Oklahoma does not like Indians." Dapice, who is of Cherokee and Lenape heritage and is a Penn alumna, shared her views on the current status of Native Americans in Oklahoma yesterday at the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology by describing the current state of her hometown.

With no postseason to shoot for in non-conference action, Week 1 for Ivy teams is about figuring out weaknesses in time for league play. For four coaches, whose teams open their Ivy schedules tomorrow, they better hope their players are quick learners. Harvard (1-0) at Brown (1-0) The marquee early-season matchup pits the last two Ivy League champions against each other, and both look a little different this season.

There's nothing better than a free ride. This weekend, NJ Transit will allow college students to use its system for no cost.

Too little outcry To the Editor: Afaf Meleis' recent column ("It's about home - not where you're from," DP, 9/10/06) sheds light on the unfortunate issue of discrimination toward Arabs and Muslims in post-9/11 America. What Meleis fails to note, however, is that Arabs and Muslims can do something about it.

The women's soccer team probably thought its game against Temple on Wednesday would serve as the perfect way to gain momentum for the Ivy opener against Harvard. Twenty-one shots and 21 misses later, the Quakers (4-1-1) found themselves trying to regain their composure and bounce back against a battle-tested Crimson team.