Diversity News

Penn President Amy Gutmann, School District of Philadelphia Superintendent William Hite, Penn’s Graduate School of Education Director of School & Community Engagement Caroline Watts and others gathered last Wednesday to celebrate a remarkable accomplishment—the naming of the Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander University of Pennsylvania Partnership School (Penn Alexander School) as a National Blue Ribbon School. It is one of only a few hundred schools to receive the coveted annual distinction, and the first Philadelphia District school in West Philadelphia to ever receive the honor.

Karen Detlefsen of Arts & Sciences studies the lasting legacy of female philosophers who worked during a time when women were excluded from universities.

College counselors from around the country, representing 16 states as well as Washington DC, were hosted by Penn's Admissions office at CBO Counselor Connection on August 18-19.  The program was developed for community-based organizations that work with college-bound high school students from historically underrepresented, socioeconomically disadvantaged, or first generation college backgrounds.

President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price are pleased to announce the appointment of Beth Simmons as the University of Pennsylvania’s eighteenth Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor, effective July 1, 2016.

Three military veterans who are enrolled as graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania, John Schippert, Jonathan Wood and Matthew Miclette, have been appointed as 2016 Tillman Scholars through the Pat Tillman Foundation.

Ramon Diaz-Arrastia has been named the ninth Presidential Professor at Penn, effective July 1, 2016. A world-leading expert in traumatic brain injury, Diaz-Arrastia will be Presidential Professor of Neurology in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine.

Rising senior Gavi Reiter of New Haven, Conn., has been relishing moments of “unfamiliarity and awe” in her study-abroad experiences from Vietnam to Morocco to Germany.

José Arturo Bauermeister has been named the 10th Presidential Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, effective July 1. The announcement was made by Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price.

Donita Brady of Medicine has been recognized as one of 22 Pew Scholars in Biomedical Sciences for her research that analyzes the links between cancer and copper.

Arts & Sciences’ Robert DeRubeis and grad student Zachary Cohen are working with colleagues worldwide to bring personalized care to treatment for mental health disorders.