Seven in School of Veterinary Medicine Honored With Teaching Awards
Seven faculty members in the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine are recipients of 2010 teaching awards.
Rose Nolen-Walston, assistant professor of clinical studies, New Bolton Center, has been named the Carl Norden Pfizer Distinguished Teacher.
Class of 2010 Awards went to Ariel Mosenco, staff veterinarian, Best Teacher, Philadelphia Campus, and Barbara Dallap Schaer, assistant professor of emergency medicine and critical care, Best Teacher, New Bolton. Class of 2011 Awards were given to Jeffery Wilson, an anesthesia lecturer, Best Teacher, Philadelphia Campus, and Patricia Sertich, director of the Equine Endometrial Biopsy Service and director of Clinical Service, Georgia and Philip Hofmann Research Center for Animal Reproduction, Best Teacher, New Bolton Center. Class of 2012 Awards went to Roberta Di Terlizzi, assistant professor of clinical pathology, Best Teacher, and Jamie Haddad, resident in anatomic pathology, Best Non-Lecturing Instructor. Class of 2013 Awards were given to Peter Dodson, professor of anatomy, Excellence in Teaching Award, and Peter Hand, professor emeritus, Best Non-Lecturing Instructor.
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.
