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CONFERENCE CALL: Putting “faddish” ideas into practice
When it comes to management, there’s no shortage of new and fashionable ideas—ideas that often are dismissed as useless or “faddish” before long. But sometimes, it’s not the ideas that are wrong, just the managers who implement them. A one-day conference at Wharton’s Reginald H. Jones Center, October 8 will offer business leaders advice on how to bridge the gap between theory and practice—and, more specifically, teach them how to successfully put new ideas to use. Even if others dismiss those ideas as merely “fashionable.”
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Welcome Dr. Gutmann
The entire Penn community is invited to celebrate the inauguration of our eighth President, Amy Gutmann. During the multi-day Inaugural celebration an array of events across campus—including the formal Inauguration Ceremony in Irvine Auditorium and a special symposium—will provide opportunities for everyone to welcome our president as she officially assumes her new role at Penn.
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Oct. 15 Is Inauguration Day for Amy Gutmann, New University of Pennsylvania President
PHILADELPHIA -- The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania will officially confer the presidency on Amy Gutmann Oct. 15. Gutmann, who will serve as Penn's eighth president, is a world-renowned scholar committed to the core values of democratic societies life, liberty, opportunity and mutual respect -- and has a passion for improving access to higher education.Gutmann, 54, assumed the office July 1, succeeding Judith Rodin.
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Penn Receives $11.6 Million to Open Center to Explore the Boundaries Between Nanotechnology and Biology
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania is one of six institutions to receive funding today from the National Science Foundation for a new Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center. As part of the NSEC program, Penn's new Nano/Bio Interface Center will bring together researchers from across campus to study the intersection of technology and biology at the nanoscale -- or molecular -- level.
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Kenneth Goldsmith Appointed Fellow at Penn's Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing
PHILADELPHIA -- Kenneth Goldsmith, a visual artist of vast range, has been appointed Fellow in Poetics and Poetic Practice at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing. The fellowship project seeks to deepen connections between young writers at Penn and writers of heterodox poetic practice whose work doesn't neatly fit into academic categories.
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Penn to Announce $2 Million Donation to Fund Institute for Urban Research Chair, Host Panel on Transforming Cities
WHO: Amy Gutmann, president of the University of PennsylvaniaJudith Rodin, chair of the Penn Institute for Urban Research Advisory Board and president emeritus of the UniversityPenn Institute for Urban Research Advisory Board membersWHAT: A $2 million donation from the Baltimore-based construction group Clark Enterprises Inc. will fund a professorship named in honor of 1968 Penn alumnus Lawrence C. Nussdorf.
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Penn's Shu Yang Named a "Top Young Innovator"
PHILADELPHIA -- Shu Yang of the University of Pennsylvania has been named to the 2004 list of the world 100 Top Young Innovators by Technology Review, a publication of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The "TR100," chosen by the editors of Technology Review and an elite panel of judges, consists of people younger than 35 whose innovative work in technology has a profound impact on today world.
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Clark Enterprises Endows Chair at Penn Institute for Urban Research Honoring a University Alumnus
PHILADELPHIA -- Clark Enterprises Inc. has given $2 million to the University of Pennsylvania to create and endow the Lawrence C. Nussdorf Chair at the University newly created Penn Institute for Urban Research. The gift honors Lawrence Nussdorf, a University trustee and Graduate School of Education overseer who is president and chief operating officer at Clark Enterprises the Maryland-based parent company of The Clark Construction Group, one of the nation's largest general contractors.
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9/11 Search-and-Rescue Dogs Exhibit Few Effects from Exposure to Disaster Sites
PHILADELPHIA -- The search-and-rescue dogs deployed following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have not suffered either immediate or short-term effects from exposure to the disaster sites, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine report. The findings, presented in the Sept. 15 issue of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, should help relieve fears about the after-effects of working at the 9/11 sites.
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Gutmann to Discuss, Sign Books at Penn Bookstore
WHO: Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania.WHAT: A discussion and signing for the books "Why Deliberative Democracy?" and "Identity in Democracy," two works on components of the American political process by Amy Gutmann. WHEN: 7 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 23WHERE: Penn Bookstore, 36th and Walnut streets, Philadelphia. All events at the Penn Bookstore are free and open to the public.