Penn President Amy Gutmann to Join Students in Voting on Election Day
University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann To Join Students in Voting on Election Day
WHO: Amy Gutmann, Penn President
WHEN: Nov. 4, 2008, 3:15 p.m.
WHERE: University of Pennsylvania Steinberg-Dietrich Hall Locust Walk, near 37th Street
University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann will join a student group, “Penn Leads The Vote,” at a campus polling place to vote. “Penn Leads The Vote” is a student-run non-partisan voter-registration and -mobilization campaign.
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.
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.
From framework to actions: Provost John L. Jackson Jr. talks Penn Forward
In a Q&A, Provost John L. Jackson Jr. explains the relationship between the strategic framework In Principle and Practice and Penn Forward—a new University-wide process and action plan that will advance Penn forward for the next decade and beyond.
