June 30, 2006
University of Pennsylvania’s Engineers Without Borders, a group that is not affiliated with Doctors Without Borders, was in Honduras in order to build a water system to supply water to the remote Honduran village of Terreritos. Fourteen engineering students from the University of Pennsylvania, including Daniel J. Wallman, ENG’08, Alexander C. Mittal, ENG’07, W’07, George D. Sworo, ENG’08, Angelina M. Benson-Glanz, ENG’07, and Michael E. Lanaux, ENG’08, participated in this project. [more]
In honor of Ben Franklin's 300th Birthday on January 17, 2006, we offer a year of notable Franklin quotes:
"He who multiplies Riches multiplies Cares. "
--Benjamin Franklin
June 23, 2006
Did You Know... that you can take a virtual tour of Penn's campus, right from your own computer? Simply visit www.upenn.edu/admissions/tour/ to see pictures of Penn and a map that shows where all the buildings are located.
In honor of Ben Franklin's 300th Birthday on January 17, 2006, we offer a year of notable Franklin quotes:
"Fear not Death; for the sooner we die, the longer we be immortal."
June 16, 2006
Did You Know... that John L. Jackson, Jr. has been named the first Penn Integrates Knowledge professor at Penn? Currently at Duke University, Jackson will become the Richard Perry University Associate Professor of Communications and Anthropology, holding joint appointments in Penn's Annenberg School for Communication and School of Arts and Sciences. He will also be affiliated with the Center for Africana Studies. The PIK program was launched by President Gutmann in 2005 as part of one of the tenets of her Penn Compact – Integrating Knowledge.
In honor of Ben Franklin's 300th Birthday on January 17, 2006, we offer a year of notable Franklin quotes:
"Would you persuade, speak of Interest, not of Reason."
-- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1734
June 9, 2006
Did You Know... that Lawrence Lessig's, C'83, W'83, Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity, will be the text for the 2006 Penn Reading Project? On the afternoon of Sunday, September 3, 2006, groups of first-year students and faculty leaders will join together to discuss the book as part of New Student Orientation for the Class of 2010.
In honor of Ben Franklin's 300th Birthday on January 17, 2006, we offer a year of notable Franklin quotes:
"All would live long, but none would be old."
June 2 , 2006
Did You Know. . . that a pair of Penn golfers, seniors Derek Rogers (W'06) and Kim Thompson (C'06), gave The Golf Channel a tour of the Penn campus? You can catch their tour this week on The Golf Channel at three different times, listed below.
All Times are Eastern Standard Time
Thursday, June 1 at 3:30 p.m.
Friday, June 2 at 4:30 a.m.
Friday, June 2 at 8:30 a.m.
Read more about the Women's Golf team and the Men's Golf team.
In honor of Ben Franklin's 300th Birthday on January 17, 2006, we offer a year of notable Franklin quotes:
"The sleeping Fox catches no poultry. Up! Up!"
--Benjamin Franklin
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