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Distinguished Professorship Endowed At Penn Law School In Honor Of Financier Saul A. Fox Is The Largest Single Gift For A Chaired Professorship In Penn History
PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania Law School adds to its growing corporate-law program with the creation of the Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professorship of Business Law and the associated Fox Endowed Research Fund. This is the largest single gift establishing a chair in the history of Penn.
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John McCain
John S. McCain, the senator from Arizona whose independent spirit enlivened his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, delivered the 245th Commencement address. Here are excerpts from his talk:
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Show biz and the law
“Judge Judy” may not mean the end of our civilization. That was the judgement of a panel of pop-culture-savvy lawyers at the Law School during Alumni Weekend who, believe it or not, agreed more than they disagreed about the depiction of law in popular culture. “Law and Popular Culture,” one of 12 Classes Without Quizzes that weekend, attracted about 65 alums, most of them lawyers and judges.
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Eldercare, childcare, your cares, Penn cares
Margaret Ann Morris’ mother, now 75 years old, was ill and was living by herself in a big house up in Binghamton, N.Y. Morris is the associate editor of Almanac, the weekly publication of the Faculty Senate. Efforts to get her mother to face the issues and make some decisions were frustrating. “There were days we were tearing our hair out,” Morris said. “We couldn’t get my mother to move on anything.”
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Mad mortarboards
A tip of the hat to our graduating students, all of whom deserve praise for their achievement. But we found a few who managed to express their gratitude — or their creativity — on their caps.
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Gates scholarship opens doors to study abroad for two new grads
A pair of recent Penn grads have just snagged two brand-new study-abroad fellowships. This fall, Bart Szewczyk (W’01), of Guttenberg, N.J., and Amanda Codd (C’01), of Morrisville, Pa., will join the inaugural class of Gates Scholars — 40 to 50 Americans in all, plus several hundred from around the world — studying at the University of Cambridge in England with a full scholarship from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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More students win grants
The American Academy in Rome awarded to a graduate student here one of its 29 prestigious Rome Prizes. The prize provides a residency of six months to two years plus a stipend.during which the winners can pursue work independently at the American Academy in Rome. Carol Whang, a graduate student in music, was awarded the Rome Prize Fellowship in Post-Classical Humanistic/Modern Italian Studies, to study 16th century parody Mass composition methods, working with manuscripts at the Vatican Library.
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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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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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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.