January 30, 2007
Did You Know... that the University launched the Civic Scholars Program, a new four-year program that allows fifteen undergraduate students to incorporate their academic interests with research and service to the community? This academically based service program begins with the Class of 2011; selected students each year will focus their undergraduate career on a community service and public-policy-oriented study program, and will graduate with a Civic Scholar certificate.
Read more about the Civic Scholars Program on Penn's website and in the Daily Pennsylvanian.
January 15, 2007
Did You Know… that retired Penn Nurse, Mrs. Elizabeth Kendall, Nu’68, donated one million dollars to her former employer, the University of Pennsylvania ’s Department of Radiation Oncology? The John C. and Elizabeth Kendall Fellowship Fund will be used to train nurses, technicians, and physicians in leading edge technologies and novel radiation therapies to fight cancer. Mrs. Kendall began her nursing career at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania after graduating from Penn’s School of Nursing in1968. In 1977, the Hospital and Penn’s School of Medicine launched its Department of Radiation Oncology. Mrs. Kendall worked in the department from that time until her retirement in 1993.
More information here.
January 8, 2007
Did you know... that John McPhee, Jamaica Kincaid and Donald Hall have been named the Kelly Writers House Fellows for 2007? "I love teaching the Writers House Fellows seminar," said Dr. Al Filreis, Writers House Faculty Director and Kelly Professor of English. "We read and discuss the writings of each Fellow, and then, after a month or so of that, the great writer himself or herself appears! This is surely a dream come true for young writers and readers."
Learn more about the 2007 fellows here.
Read more on the fellows from previous years.
Find out about the Kelly Writers house at their website.
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