Ron Ozio

PHILADELPHIA The University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and School of Engineering and Applied Science have been awarded $300,000 from the GE Fund to improve studentsmath skills in two West Philadelphia elementary schools and to open up new career opportunities.

Ron Ozio ・April 15, 2002

PHILADELPHIA Rem Koolhaas, world-renowned architect and recipient of the esteemed Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2000, will present an illustrated lecture on his current projects, including the new Prada Store which opened in New York City SoHo in December 2001, at the University of Pennsylvania on Monday, April 8.

Ron Ozio ・April 5, 2002

PHILADELPHIA Ira Harkavy, associate vice president and director of the Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania, has been awarded the 2002 Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service Learning.

Ron Ozio ・April 4, 2002

PHILADELPHIA -- Two exhibits will open to the public April 9 and run through September in the University of Pennsylvania's Kroiz Gallery of the Architectural Archives, 220 S. 34th St."From the Ground Up: Approaches to Architecture and Landscape Design."

Ron Ozio ・April 4, 2002

PHILADELPHIA For applicants to the University of Pennsylvania Class of 2006, how quickly they learn about acceptance is dependent not on "snail mail" but on the speed of their Internet connections.

Ron Ozio ・April 4, 2002

PHILADELPHIA University of Pennsylvania alumnus J. Peter Skirkanich and his wife Geri have pledged $10 million to build Skirkanich Hall, Penn new home for bioengineering.

Ron Ozio ・March 28, 2002

PHILADELPHIA -- Jim Lehrer, one of the most respected television journalists in the United States and the host of "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," will deliver the Commencement address at the 246th Commencement ceremony of the University of Pennsylvania Monday, May 13.

Ron Ozio ・March 25, 2002

PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Fine Arts will host a film screening of "The Cedar Bar" April 1 followed by a question-and-answer session with the filmmaker Alfred Leslie in Meyerson Hall B-1.

Ron Ozio ・March 19, 2002

University of Pennsylvania experts available to comment for tax-season storiesFor more information on ancient taxation: http://www.museum.upenn.edu/news/taxes.htmlTaxes in ancient MesopotamiaTonia Sharlach, research assistant in the Penn Museum's Babylonian Section

Ron Ozio ・March 15, 2002

PHILADELPHIA Deaths from self-inflicted gunshot wounds are on the rise among young African-American males.

Ron Ozio ・March 12, 2002