PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing has received a $5 million gift from The Annenberg Foundation to support the renovation and renaming of its building for Dean Emerita Claire M. Fagin, a pioneer in nursing research.

PHILADELPHIA -- In "The Gift of Education: How a Tuition Guarantee Program Saved the Lives of Inner City Youth," Norman Newberg describes how the chance-of-a-lifetime gift of free college tuition and the pressure to use it changed the lives of 112 seventh-grade students from one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods.

PHILADELPHIA-- Writers Richard Ford, Cynthia Ozick and Ian Frazier have been named the Kelly Writers House Fellows for the spring 2006 semester at the University of Pennsylvania.Ford will be on the Penn campus Feb. 13-14, followed by Ozick March 20-21 and Frazier April 17-18.

WHO:Five members of a team led by Graduate School of Education Associate Professor Kathy Schultz

PHILADELPHIA -- University of Pennsylvania social work professor Richard Estes, co-editor of the new two-volume "Medical, Legal, & Social Science Aspects of Child Sexual Exploitation," hopes that the release of this work will guide lawmakers, human service planners, child advocacy groups and others to work together to create a comprehensive plan to combat child sexual exploitation.

Photo Opportunity:  Medicine Wheel Ceremony Celebration3:30 PM, Friday, June 10 WHAT:

WHO: Students from University City High School, Drew     Elementary School and Sayre Middle School; staff of Penn's Urban Nutrition InitiativeWHAT:Food, games, crafts, entertainers (musicians, jugglers, etc.) will be on hand to celebrate healthy eating and living and the success of the Urban Nutrition Initiative's partnership with the schools.

WHAT:  University of Pennsylvania's 249th Commencement ceremony WHO: U.N. Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan will present the main commencement address and receive an honorary doctor of laws degree.

Mark SternProfessor of Social Welfare and HistoryUniversity of Pennsylvania School of Social WorkPresident Bush's plan for revamping social security has gone from "bad to worse," Stern says.

PHILADELPHIA -- An analysis of major international achievement surveys since 1990 shows that, while the U.S. may not be first in the world in terms of education, U.S. students generally perform above average, according to Erling Boe, a professor in the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education.The report is featured in the May 2005 Phi Delta Kappan.