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University of Pennsylvania Expands Financial Aid for Students From Low- and Middle-Income Families

PHILADELPHIA -- Reinforcing its commitment to ease the financial burden on low- and-middle-income families and to continue to attract top students with diverse economic backgrounds, the University of Pennsylvania today announced a significant expansion of its financial-aid initiative for low- and middle-income families.  Beginning this fall, Penn will replace loans with grants for students from high-need families earning less than $60,000.

Penn Criminologist Laurie Robinson Testifies at U.S. House Appropriations Sub-Committee Hearing

PHILADELPHIA - Laurie Robinson, director of the criminology M.S. program in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, called on Congress to increase funding for state and local criminal justice programs.  She testified on March 21 before the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies.Robinson, a former U.S. assistant attorney general, cited a recent Police Executive Research Forum report that found significant increases in robberies and homicides in many jurisdictions.

Penn Sets Tuition for 2007-2008 Academic Year

PHILADELPHIA -- Total undergraduate charges for tuition, fees and room and board at the University of Pennsylvania will increase 4.9 percent for the 2007-2008 academic year, bringing the total cost of an undergraduate year to $46,124.  The increase was approved today by Penn's Board of Trustees.Tuition and fees for undergraduate students for the 2007-2008 academic year will increase 5.15 percent to $35,916; average room-and-board charges will increase 4.1 percent to $10,208.

Israeli Supreme Court President to Speak at Penn

Israeli Supreme Court President to Speak at PennWHO:Dorit Beinisch, president of the Supreme Court of IsraelWHEN:5 p.m., Thursday, March 29, 2007WHERE:University of Pennsylvania Law School3400 Chestnut St.Gittis Hall, Room 213Dorit Beinisch will discuss the role of the Israeli Supreme Court in the fight against terrorism.  She was appointed to the position in September 2006 and is the first woman to serve as the courts president.

Philadelphia City Council Honors John J. Mulhern of Penn's Fels Institute of Government

PHILADELPHIA - John J. Mulhern, director of professional education at the University of Pennsylvania's Fels Institute of Government, has been honored with a Philadelphia City Council resolution for his 15 years of "extraordinary commitment" in training leaders for all levels of public service. Philadelphia City Councilman-At-Large Jack Kelly offered the resolution, which passed unanimously, and presented it to Mulhern at the City Council meeting on March 15. Kelly praised Mulhern as " an advisor and professor to many of our best and brightest staff members."

Marie Gottschalk of Penn Wins 2007 Ellis W. Hawley Prize

PHILADELPHIA-- Marie Gottschalk, associate professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, has won the Organization of American Historians' 2007 Ellis W. Hawley prize for her new book, "The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America." In the book, Gottschalk argues that punitive penal policies in the United States were forged by four particular social movements and interest groups: the victims' movement, the women's movement, the prisoners' rights movement and opponents of the death penalty.

Do you like me as much as I like you?

Candace diCarlo Grace Kao is fascinated with friendship. The Penn sociology associate professor has spent much of her 10 years here pondering what it means to have a friend, who befriends whom and whether having a best friend translates into better grades in the middle and high school years.

Penn Law and Wharton to Host 41 Professional Middle Eastern Women for Legal/Business Fellowship Program

PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania Law School, Penn's Wharton School and the National Council for International Visitors are working with America-Mideast Educational and Training Services Inc. to implement the Legal and Business Fellowship Program.  The LBFP is funded by the U.S Department of State Middle East Partnership Initiative.

R. Tait McKenzie

Professor of war

Photo credit: Candace diCarlo American universities offer courses in just about everything these days: Ancient languages and nanotechnology, environmentalism and economics, cyberculture and the history of rock ’n roll. But Arthur Waldron says there’s one class that, curiously, most college students won’t find in their course catalog: Warfare 101.