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Founder Of Penn's Bread Upon The Waters Scholarship Wins Service Award From The College Of General Studies
PHILADELPHIA The University of Pennsylvania College of General Studies will honor Elin Danien with the 2001 CGS Service Award. Danien, 71, is being honored as the founder of the Bread Upon the Waters Scholarship Fund, a program that provides full tuition support to women older than 30 who are earning undergraduate degrees through part-time study at Penn. Since its inception in 1987, the Fund has grown to support nearly 70 women, 32 of whom have graduated.
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International Study Finds Hospital Nurses Dissatisfied, Concerned About Deteriorating Quality Of Patient Care
PHILADELPHIA In one of the most ambitious studies of hospital nurses ever undertaken, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have found widespread concern about quality of patient care and discontent in the ranks of hospital nurses and have identified trends that bode ill for a quick resolution to the current nurse shortage.
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U.S. Senator John S. McCain To Speak At University Of Pennsylvania Commencement
PHILADELPHIA -- John S. McCain, U.S. Senator from Arizona and recent presidential candidate, will deliver the Commencement address at the 245th Commencement ceremony of the University of Pennsylvania on Monday, May 21. The ceremony will begin at 9:30 a.m. at Franklin Field, 33rd and South streets. Approximately 6,000 degrees will be conferred.
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Astrophysicist Charles Alcock Among 72 Researchers Newly Elected To The National Academy Of Sciences
PHILADELPHIA Charles R. Alcock, an astrophysicist at the University of Pennsylvania, has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences. Alcock is one of 72 researchers nationwide inducted into the Acad-emy this year. Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors accorded American scientists and engineers. Alcock induction brings to 35 the number of Penn researchers in the 1,874-member body.
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The world comes to Philly (children’s version)
It really is a small world after all. At least it is while the Philadelphia International Children’s Festival is under way. This year’s 17th edition of the arts and crafts festival for kids, which continues through Sunday, May 6, showcases the world’s diversity in an entertaining and educational fashion, with feature performances from eight groups representing seven countries — Belgium, Canada, China, Italy, Japan, Uganda and the United States.
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Koop prescribes hard work
C. Everett Koop, the former U.S. Surgeon General under Ronald Reagan, had a message of professional pride for more than 300 physicians, nursing students and faculty, and other University affiliates. “For years, when magazines took polls on the most-admired profession, medicine was always number one,” he told his audience during his April 24 talk at the Nursing School. “Now doctors are number 17. Do you know who’s first?” “Nurses,” blurted at least 20 audience members.
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Dialogue begins
“We have begun to have conversations with members of our community on issues of great importance to all of us, and we intend to continue the dialogue.” So said President Judith Rodin and Provost Robert Barchi in a statement they issued following the Penn Police Department’s release of the final investigation report on an altercation at Campus Copy that led to a campus-wide discussion on race and violence.
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Get a house, sha n’na na, sha n’na n’na na
The Office of Community Housing is offering workshops for homeowners and prospective homeowners who are members of the Penn community. Here’s a list of upcoming classes: Community Housing 101: Get general home buying information and learn about Penn’s Guaranteed Mortgage Program. Wednesday, May 16 and June 20, noon to 1 p.m. and 1 to 2 p.m. in Room 720, Franklin Building, 3451 Walnut St.
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“The theory has to be raked over by our colleagues.”
Burt Ovrut, professor of physics and one of the authors of a breakthrough theory on the origin of the universe that brings the Big Bang theory into question (Arizona Republic, April 17)
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“I have this urge to express all this pent-up emotion.”
Panna Naik, a cataloguer in Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, writes books of poetry that hold first prize from a state government, are required reading at her alma mater and have earned her a national reputation as a pioneering feminist poet. Haven’t heard of her? That might be because all these accolades take place in Naik’s native country of India. She moved to the United States with her husband more than 40 years ago but remains relatively unknown here because she writes in her native tongue, the northwest Indian language Gujarati, and has not yet published any volumes in English.