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Principal Selected For New University Of Pennsylvania-Assisted Public School In West Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA Sheila Sydnor, a veteran School District of Philadelphia teacher and administrator, was selected from a national pool of 60 candidates to be the new principal of the University-Assisted PreK-8 Public School in West Philadelphia. A site selection committee consisting of parents from the community, University of Pennsylvania and School District representatives chose Sydnor for her demonstrated abilities as a school leader, her commitment to building learning communities and her experience in creating conditions for high student achievement.
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Are we blue? You bet we are
Forget red. Blue is the color of the Penn campus next weekend as the University hosts the fifth annual Greater Philadelphia Blues Fest June 7-10. Headlining this year’s festival are New Orleans-born blues and R&B legend Dr. John, who refuses to be pigeonholed into a single musical genre, and Shemekia Copeland (photo), daughter of the late blues legend Johnny Clyde Copeland and herself one of the hottest young performers on the blues scene today.
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CEO for real
Robert D. Martin, Ph.D., interim chief executive officer and chief operating officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, has been named to the CEO position on a permanent basis. President Judith Rodin announced the appointment May 14. During Martin’s tenure as interim CEO, the Health System returned to profitability after several years of losses. For the first half of fiscal year 2001, the system posted an $18.5 million operating profit, and indicators point to a profitable year overall.
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Late nights and jelly beans
In keeping with Wharton tradition, graduating senior Aaron Karo (W’01) delivered the address at the Wharton Undergraduate and Evening Division degree ceremony May 20. Here are excerpts from his look back across four years at Penn: Any discussion of the Wharton experience must, of course, begin with Steinberg-Dietrich Hall, or “Steiny-D” as it is affectionately called by its bleary-eyed inhabitants. Steiny-D is the place where we, the world’s future business leaders, learned the basics of finance, accounting and marketing.
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Penn Professor Uses Basketball, Martial Arts To Help Young Men Learn To Control Anger
PHILADELPHIA A University of Pennsylvania professor is teaching troubled boys to control their aggression through basketball, martial arts and cultural pride. Howard Stevenson, an associate professor in Penn Graduate School of Education and director of the program, has helped more than 150 youngsters at Philadelphia E.S. Miller School during the past three years. Stevenson has found that through the mentoring program violent behavior declined dramatically.
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Penn Library And Northern Light Create Information Partnership For Search And Content
PHILADELPHIA The University of Pennsylvania Library and Northern Light Technology Inc. have created an information-rich portal for Penn 248,000 alumni. The Alumni & Friends Library portal is located at www.library.upenn.edu/portal.
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Penn Women's Basketball Team Receives Alice Paul Award
PHILADELPHIA -- Two months after the conclusion of the most celebrated season in the program history, the University of Pennsylvania women basketball team has been named one of the 2001 winners of the Alice Paul Awards by the Association of Women Faculty and Administrators at Penn. The team members were honored for their "accomplishments as individuals, as a team and as a representation of the significant contributions Penn women students make to the campus on behalf of women."
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William Gipson
When students set up pickets in front of the Campus Copy Center last month after a fight between an employee and a Penn student, the Rev. William Gipson, the University chaplain, went over to sound out their opinions. This may sound like an unusual thing for a chaplain to involve himself in. But Gipson doesn’t agree. He sees his job as, in his words, “to care for the welfare of the entire University.”
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College to certify computer proficiency
English and history are in the School of Arts and Sciences. Computer and information science is in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. Starting in the Fall 2001 semester, the twain indeed shall meet in a new certificate in computing for students in the College — a unique effort to incorporate an applied digital technology program into the liberal-arts curriculum. “We do not know of any other elite private or public institution that has a program like this,” said Professor of Classical Studies Joseph Farrell, who headed the planning committee.
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Performers and audience unite
I’m new here. It’s the only lame excuse I have, as the father of a 12-year-old, for visiting the International Children’s Festival for the very first time this year. I never expected to be moved. While we stood in line for a show downstairs at the Annenberg Center, music started. It sounded as if an entire African village had descended upon Philadelphia and declared a holiday. It called to us. I believe I heard “Buy tickets to our show!”