Malcolm Bonner, Ed.D., has been named the first director of the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program (“McNair Scholars”) at the University of Pennsylvania. The McNair Scholars program is a U.S. Department of Education-funded program that encourages high-achieving college juniors and seniors from underrepresented groups to pursue graduate and doctoral study. The program, named for the physicist who died in the 1986 Challenger space shuttle explosion, currently operates on more than 100 college campuses nationwide; Penn’s program is the first in the Ivy League.
Bonner comes to Penn from Temple University, where he served as director of Temple’s Act 101 Programs Office. He will oversee recruitment and operation of special intensive summer workshops and support programs for Penn students interested in graduate study in the humanities and social sciences.
Materials in the Annenberg School for Communication Library Archives include thousands of TV scripts, the first issue of TV Guide, and interviews about the early days of HBO—which help to chronicle TV’s 100-year story.
Centering joy in AI development and implementation
PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton—of Annenberg and SP2—and collaborators introduce a joy-informed framework designed to initiate conversations among engineers, designers, and researchers.
Winter Storm Fern brought icy and snowy conditions to the Northeast and other parts of the country over the weekend. Penn Today asks physicist Robert Carpick about the unique properties of ice, the science of curling, and how close we are to ‘nonslip’ ice.
Organizations like Penn’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships foster collaborations between Penn and public schools in the West Philadelphia community.
Penn receives national distinction for community engagement
The recognition by the American Council on Education and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching acknowledges Penn’s long-standing commitment to community-engaged scholarship and partnerships in West Philadelphia and beyond.
