January 30, 2009
Did You Know... that Penn has chosen eight faculty members to be the 2009 Penn Fellows? A leadership-development program that recognizes faculty in mid-career, Penn Fellows have the opportunity to build networks across the University, meet with distinguished academic leaders, think strategically about university governance and participate in monthly dinners with prominent speakers from within Penn and beyond. Get more information and see a listing of the 2009 Penn Fellows and their biographies.
January 21, 2009
Did You Know... that the University of Pennsylvania has received a $366,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to support the Center for the Advanced Study of India, (CASI)? This research grant will conduct empirically based case studies of diaspora/home country interactions and will cover a 26-month period including case study research examining Mexico, Russia, India, and Argentina. The grant will fund commissioned papers on institutional, policy and analytical issues for a book and for a workshop, to be held in Washington, D.C., at the World Bank.
For more information, please view this press release.
January 12, 2009
Did You Know... that Penn alumna Elizabeth Alexander, G'92, has been chosen by the inaugural committee to deliver a poem at the inauguration of Barack Obama? Alexander is currently a professor of African American Studies at Yale University. She will be the fourth poet to speak at an inauguration -- the first was Robert Frost at John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961. President Clinton asked Maya Angelou and Miller Williams to speak at his inaugurations in 1993 and 1997 respectively.
"Her selection really affirms our generation of American poets in ways that will resonate for a long time to come," says Herman Beavers, an associate professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, fellow poet, and longtime friend.
Read more in the Philadelphia Inquirer article.
Hear Alexander's reading at the Kelly Writer's House in 2004.
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