Ron Ozio

PHILADELPHIA -- Reinforcing its commitment to ease the financial burden on low- and-middle-income families and to continue to attract top students with diverse economic backgrounds, the University of Pennsylvania today announced a significant expansion of its financial-aid initiative for low- and middle-income families.

PHILADELPHIA - Jonathan D. Moreno from the University of Virginia and Christopher B. Murray from the IBM research division have been named Penn Integrates Knowledge professors at the University of Pennsylvania.

PHILADELPHIA -- Raymond K. F. Ch'ien and Marc F. McMorris have been named term trustees at the University of Pennsylvania.  Ch'ien's term began June 16; McMorris' will begin Oct. 27.

PHILADELPHIA -- Expanding its effort to alleviate the financial burden on low- and middle-income students and to continue attract top students with diverse economic backgrounds, the University of Pennsylvania will provide grants for undergraduate students from economically disadvantaged families with incomes of $50,000 or less, Penn President Amy Gutmann announced today.

PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania's Center for Educational Leadership has received a $4.9 million grant from the Annenberg Foundation to launch the Distributed Leadership Initiative, a four-year collaboration with the Philadelphia School District to promote shared leadership at the individual school level.The Center is part of Penn's Graduate School of Education.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. is in for a repeat of the post-Katrina debacle unless there is a fundamental re-thinking of national policy dealing with all kinds of risky events.

PHILADELPHIA University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann got the surprise of her Penn life when, at a dinner for students and scholarship donors, Penn Trustee George Weiss handed her an envelope on which he had written, "Have a nice day, Amy!" Inside was a check for $14 million, earmarked for one of Gutmann passions, undergraduate financial aid.

PHILADELPHIA -- Ronald J. Daniels, Dean of the Faculty of Law and the James M. Tory Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, has been named the 28th Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn President Amy Gutmann has announced.

PHILADELPHIA -- Penn Integrates Knowledge, a University-wide initiative to recruit faculty members to the University of Pennsylvania whose research and teaching exemplify the integration of knowledge across disciplines, has received its first significant gift.

NOTE TO EDITORS:  Interviews with individual international-student volunteers can be arranged.  Also, media representatives may attend either of two Oct. 27 training sessions and/or accompany the volunteers to polling places on Nov. 2.Oct. 25, 2004