Daniels played active role in Penn community
While colleagues aren't yet waving farewell to Provost Ron Daniels, who was elected president of Johns Hopkins University on Tuesday, they acknowledge that his eventual successor has large shoes to fill.
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While colleagues aren't yet waving farewell to Provost Ron Daniels, who was elected president of Johns Hopkins University on Tuesday, they acknowledge that his eventual successor has large shoes to fill.
Provost Ron Daniels will leave Penn to become the next president of Johns Hopkins University, officials announced yesterday.
Turmoil in the financial markets is causing many top-tier schools to look for ways to cut costs as their endowments drop in value.
Provost Ron Daniels, who came to the University just over three years ago, will leave Penn this March to become the president of Johns Hopkins University.
There are a couple of conventional ways to earn extra cash at Penn - serving food, working at a College House front desk, maybe getting a paid summer internship if you're lucky.
As predicted, network analysts last night painted Pennsylvania blue as Illinois Sen. Barack Obama overwhelmingly won the state, 55 to 45 percent.
Going against the stereotype of the apathetic college kid, youth have been more involved in this election than any in recent memory - and experts think they will show up at the polls.
While most students feel they need to go abroad to get a global experience at Penn, the University is bringing some of that international expertise to West Philadelphia.
Over 120 years of Penn history will soon be available at just the click of a button.
It may not have come in a robin's-egg-blue box, but Penn officials are nevertheless thrilled about a recent $2 million donation from the Tiffany & Co. Foundation to the Botswana-UPenn partnership.
In a memo written to "Members of Our University Community", Penn President Amy Gutmann yesterday addressed the University's place in the current precarious economic market, a move met by nonchalant student reactions.
Exactly one year after the public-phase launch of its capital campaign, Penn is still "Making History."
Six Penn faculty members - the most from any institution nationwide - have been inducted into the Institute of Medicine, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences.
Penn was recently ranked the 11th-best university in the world, by the Times Higher Education, a London-based higher-education magazine, and Quacquarelli Symonds, a global career and education network. The new ranking represents a three-place improvement over last year.
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Some schools have been left in the lurch after Wachovia's announcement last week that it would freeze $9.3 billion in funds for nearly 1,000 colleges and universities across the country, but Penn will not be one of them.
Ramifications from the troubled credit markets touched home last week as the University found $100,000 it had invested in a short-term fund managed by Wachovia Bank had been frozen, according to Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli.
Penn's endowment may have shrunk over the past fiscal year, but a spending rule and an upward trend in donations to the endowment mean the University won't be feeling a squeeze yet.
Of peer institutions that have reported figures at this time, Penn's endowment is the only one to have shrunk, dropping 3.9 percent from $6.6 billion to $6.3 billion.
Despite a 3.9-percent drop in Penn's endowment over the last year, the University is sticking to its current investment plan.