Dean of Penn's Graduate School of Education Named to National Academy of Education
PHILADELPHIA -- Susan H. Fuhrman, dean of the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education, has been elected to the National Academy of Education. Membership in the academy is limited to 150 regular members whose accomplishments in the field of education have been judged outstanding.
The National Academy of Education was founded in 1965 to promote scholarly inquiry and discussion concerning the ends and means of education, in all its forms, in the United States and abroad.
Fuhrman came to Penn as dean in 1995. After teaching history in public and private secondary schools, she received a joint Ph.D. from Columbia University and Teachers College in political science and education.
She is the founder and director of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education, a collaboration of five universities. Fuhrman's research interests include state policy design, accountability, deregulation and intergovernmental relationships. Her appointment as dean was recently renewed for a second, six-year term, she is on sabbatical leave from the University for the fall 2002 semester.
Griffin Pitt, right, works with two other student researchers to test the conductivity, total dissolved solids, salinity, and temperature of water below a sand dam in Kenya.
Griffin Pitt’s upbringing made her passionate about water access and pollution, and Penn has given her the opportunity to explore these issues back home in North Carolina and abroad.
Rashi Sabherwal, a doctoral student in political science, explores how women engage politically in society in informal roles through her research in India.
Helping robots work together to explore the Moon and Mars
Penn Engineers, NASA, and five other universities tested robotic systems designed to help unmanned explorers cooperate in the dunes of White Sands, New Mexico, paving the way for Moon and Mars exploration.
