- April 30, 2012
How can one teacher in one classroom in one school really make a difference? It's a question that Chelsea Fuller, GEd'12, came to Penn's Graduate School of Education to answer.
While pursuing both her master's degree and teaching certification in GSE's Teacher Education Program, Chelsea is learning how to make the standard 9th and 10th grade social studies curriculum more relevant to both AP and at-risk students at University City High School, where she is student-teaching. At the same time, Chelsea is identifying opportunities to help her students navigate some of the toughest aspects of their lives -- all too prevalent violence, mixed messages about identity and aspirations conveyed by the media, and the micro-level fall-out of being students in a school district in distress.
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- April 17, 2012
President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price are pleased to announce the appointment of Dorothy Roberts as the University of Pennsylvania’s fourteenth Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Professor, effective July 1, 2012.
Professor Roberts, an acclaimed scholar of race, gender, and the law, will be the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology. Her appointment will be shared between the Penn Law School, where she will also be the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander ED’18, GR’21, L’27 Professor of Civil Rights, and the department of sociology in the School of Arts & Sciences.
“Dorothy Roberts is an award-winning teacher and scholar who writes and
speaks about some of the most important and challenging issues facing
our society, including civil rights, reproductive rights, poverty, child
welfare and family law,” said President Gutmann. “Her work elegantly
blends perspectives from law, sociology, ethics, race and gender
studies, and beyond. She exemplifies Penn’s commitment to linking the
liberal arts and the professions and to making a positive impact on
communities in Philadelphia and around the world.”
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- April 12, 2012
Sola Ayobiojo, W’12 |
Recipients and donors of undergraduate named scholarships agree on one thing: Scholarships are worth much more than financial assistance. They create personal connections that last well beyond the term of an award.
That was on display at the 2012 Spring Scholarship Celebration earlier this week. More than 500 people attended the event, held at the stately Gotham Hall in New York City. Scholarship recipients – exceptional students who would not be able to attend Penn without financial help – met and, in many cases, reconnected with their donors.
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- April 11, 2012
After majoring in cultural and linguistic anthropology at Penn, Ashley Rian Perry, C’05, attended Georgetown University Law Center, earning a JD. After law school, she went into private practice at a mid-sized law firm in Atlanta, practicing real estate law for two and a half years. The day after attending her 5th year reunion in May 2011, Rian began working at another law firm in Atlanta, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, where she is currently practicing real estate law.
When she has free time, she enjoys traveling, reading, and trying new restaurants. This spring, she is headed back to Philly for Penn Relays. Having learned the truth about late April in Philadelphia, her umbrella, fleece and rain boots are packed!
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- March 28, 2012
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It’s a loft for hanging out, an airy retreat for hitting the books. It’s bean-bag chairs, comfy sofas, and diner booths. It’s wireless and luminous. It’s smart.
The new Education Commons, tucked within the arches of Franklin Field on the mezzanine of the George A. Weiss Pavilion, officially opened yesterday, thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor and the collaborative vision of Penn’s Facilities and Real Estate Services, the Provost’s Office, Penn Libraries, and the President’s Office.
The stunning new facility – half the length of a football field and with brilliant, front row views of Shoemaker Green – adds 7,000 square feet of welcoming new study and information space open to all current Penn students, faculty, and staff. It also adds an academic dimension to an already energized destination at the eastern end of campus, where a “second College Green” (as Penn President Amy Gutmann put it at the opening reception) is extending the Penn experience eastward toward Penn Park
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