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Evidence Shows Head Start Provides Leg Up to Kindergarteners
PHILADELPHIA -- New research shows that children attending Head Start programs and other center-based child care are better prepared for kindergarten and maintain higher skills throughout the year. They achieve higher levels of early literacy and math skills and display work habits and motor skills that are more advanced than their peers. These same children had higher attendance levels than those who had no formal preschool experiences.
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"Hands of Hope" and "Faculty Reflections" Panel Highlight Penn's Sept. 11 Commemorative Events
PHILADELPHIA – The reflections of a faculty panel and a large-scale collaborative art sculpture are among the events planned on Sept. 11 at the University of Pennsylvania as the campus community marks the first anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the plane crash in Pennsylvania.The daylong program, "9.11.02: Remembrance, Reflection, Community," will also honor the 16 Penn alumni who lost their lives that day a year ago. A memorial wall in Houston Hall will feature a space dedicated to their memory.
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Penn New Student Orientation at Philadelphia Museum of Art
WHO: Penn's incoming freshmen WHAT: "An Evening at the Philadelphia Museum of Art" with Penn's Class of 2006 WHEN: 6 to 10 p.m., Sept. 1, 2002 WHERE: Philadelphia Museum of ArtBenjamin Franklin Parkway and 26th Street
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Penn Receives $1.5 Million Grant from IBM to Improve Teacher Training
PHILADELPHIA -- The Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania has been awarded a $1.5 million grant from IBM for a teacher professional development initiative that will use technology to link Penn with the School District of Philadelphia and the state Department of Education.
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Cognitive Scientist Aravind Joshi Receives Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to Human Cognition
PHILADELPHIA – Aravind Joshi, a cognitive scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named the third recipient of the David E. Rumel-hart Prize for contemporary contributions to the formal analysis of human cognition. Joshi, the Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science, Department of Computer and Information Science, School of Engineering and Applied Science, was chosen for his seminal contributions to the formal and computational analysis of language.
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Penn's Arthur Ross Gallery Presents 20 Years of Posters
WHO: Arthur Ross Gallery, University of PennsylvaniaWHAT: "POSTERS/POSTERS/POSTERS 20 Years of Gallery Graphics"WHEN: Aug. 23-Sept. 15WHERE: 220 S. 34th St., PhiladelphiaSince 1983, the Arthur Ross Gallery at Penn has produced first-rate exhibitions accompanied by striking graphics."POSTERS/POSTERS/POSTERS" presents 70 works depicting a wide array of design elements from the intervening years.
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With Testis Grafts from Neonatal Pigs and Goats, Mice Become First Animals to Produce Other Species' Sperm
With pinhead-sized grafts of testicular tissue from newborn mammals, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have induced mice to produce fully functional sperm from evolutionarily distant species. The result has important implications for preserving the germ lines of critically endangered species as well as prized livestock. The study, in which male mice produced functional gametes first from other mice and then from pigs and goats, is reported in the Aug. 15 issue of the journal Nature.
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Penn's Graduate School of Education to Partner with Three Philadelphia Schools
PHILADELPHIA -- The Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania will partner with three low-performing West Philadelphia schools under an agreement with the Philadelphia School Reform Commission. Penn GSE will receive funding to help improve student achievement at Henry C. Lea Elementary School at 47th and Locust streets, Alexander Wilson Elementary School at 46th and Woodland streets and William C. Bryant Elementary School at 60th and Cedar streets.
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Fellowship Enables Detention Center Teacher To Transfer Penn Research Experience To Classroom
PHILADELPHIA -- When science teacher James R. Dandy enters his Youth Study Center Detention School classroom each day, he's not sure who's on the roster or how long they'll be there. This constant turnover has Dandy ever on the lookout for new ideas to help him make science vital and interesting to his students.
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The University supports American Council on Education Statement.
As a member of the American Council on Education, the University of Pennsylvania supports the ACE statement condemning the terrorist bombing of the Mount Scopus Campus of Hebew University of Jerusalem. A full transcript of this statement is available online at the ACE website.