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Penn Study Shows African-American Churches Play Key Role In Reducing Neighborhood Crime
PHILADELPHIA African-American youth who regularly attend church services get into less trouble than those who don. That is the conclusion of a study by Byron Johnson, director of the Center for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society at the University of Pennsylvania. His findings are compiled in a report entitled "The Role of African-American Churches in Reducing Crime Among Black Youth."
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Penn Police Officer Directs Traffic With Flair
[NOTE TO EDITORS: Photographs of Officer Johnson directing traffic are available electronically or via U.S. mail.] PHILADELPHIA When Officer Floyd Johnson directs traffic, people pay attention. And they smile. With his cheerleader-like moves and unbounded enthusiasm, Johnson, a University of Pennsylvania policeman, brings grins to the faces of weary drivers and harried pedestrians in the late afternoons at 36th and Walnut streets, one of the busiest intersections on Penn campus.
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Education Dean's Testimony To House Committee On Education And The Workforce
Testimony toThe U.S. House Committee on Education and the WorkforceThe Policy Influence of Education Research and R&D CentersSubmitted by Susan H. FuhrmanDean, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania and Chair, Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE)
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Inforesources Providing The Numbers On West and Southwest Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIAehind every neighborhood is a wealth of stored knowledge. Accessing that information is the key to determining troubled areas and producing the solutions to fix them. The University of Pennsylvania Department of City and Regional Planning of the Graduate School of Fine Arts has launched an online comprehensive overview of data about West and Southwest Philadelphia called InfoResources at http://westphillydata.library.upenn.edu/.
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Penn Engineering's David Meaney Wins Y. C. Fung Award, A Top Honor For Young Bioengineering Researchers
PHILADELPHIA David F. Meaney, a bioengineer at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named the 2001 recipient of the Y.C. Fung Young Investigator Award, one of his field top honors for young researchers. The Fung Award goes to a bioengineering researcher younger than 36 who demonstrates the potential to make substantial contributions to the discipline. It has been awarded annually by the Bioengineering Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers since 1985.
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Thomas Rambo Named Chief Of Police At Penn
PHILADELPHIA -- Thomas A. Rambo, a lieutenant with the University of Pennsylvania Police Department, has been named Chief of Police at Penn, according to an announcement today by Maureen Rush, Vice President for Public Safety at Penn. His appointment will be effective July 9.
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New house dean, more Fulbrights
Patricia Williams has been named the new House Dean of W.E.B. DuBois College House. Williams, a native New Yorker, is a poet and writer with many years of experience in student services and administration at Fordham and Yeshiva universities.
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Penn Becomes First Elite University To Offer Information-Technology Certification For Liberal-Arts Students
PHILADELPHIA The University of Pennsylvania has become the first university of its caliber to formally incorporate an applied-digital-technology program into its liberal-arts curriculum. The Penn information-technology certification, to be initiated in the fall semester, will consist of four courses, with only the first course required of all students who wish to earn the IT certificate. That course will teach algorithmic thinking and basic computer and Internet structures.
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Whitaker Foundation Announces $14 Million Grants To Support Research, Education In Penn Bioengineering
PHILADELPHIA The Whitaker Foundation has announced a $14 million Leadership-Development Award to the University of Pennsylvania Department of Bioengineering, a leader in bioengineering education since granting the nation first Ph.D. in the discipline 40 years ago.The Whitaker funds will be matched by university support of $42.8 million, for a total $56.8 million initiative in bioengineering.
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Two From Penn Win International Communication Association Awards
PHILADELPHIA -- A professor from the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communication and a researcher from Penn Annenberg Public Policy Center have been named 2001 International Communication Association award winners.