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unusual facts about the University of Pennsylvania



ALWD Citation Manual

It primarily competes with the Bluebook style, a system developed by the law reviews at Harvard, Yale, The University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia.

Deborah L. Wince-Smith

Wince-Smith volunteers her time on the Board of Directors of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and is a trustee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Saving Our Vanishing Heritage

The report's editorial committee was composed of 24 experts in global heritage conservation and sustainable development from leading universities, institutions and international agencies, including the World Archaeological Congress, Archaeological Institute of America, ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites), Stanford University, the University of Pennsylvania, University College of London, and others.


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Active Minds

The Send Silence Packing display was first hosted on the National Mall in Washington, DC in April 2008 with over 10,000 visitors and special guest speaker Congressman Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), and traveled to the University of Pennsylvania as a display at the annual Active Minds Conference in November 2008.

Adrienne Miller

During the fall semester of 2009, she took up a teaching position at the University of Pennsylvania's College of Arts and Sciences where she taught a writing seminar on Russian author Vladimir Nabokov and Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman.

Anthony F. C. Wallace

He later taught at the University of Pennsylvania, where his students included the anthropologist Raymond D. Fogelson.

Carl Williams

Carl S. Williams (1872–1960), American football player, coach, and ophthalmologist, head football coach at the University of Pennsylvania from 1902 to 1907

Charles William Schaeffer

He held high office in the councils of his church, and had been one of the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania since 1859, receiving from it the degree of D.D. in 1879.

David Medved

After obtaining a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, he worked for Convair/General Dynamics in San Diego, where he developed systems to destroy intercontinental missiles during flight.

E. Digby Baltzell

He dedicated one of his books to "all my undergraduate friends at the University of Pennsylvania, many of them grandsons of immigrants to the urban frontier, who, in spite of their possessing too many Jaguars and mink-coated mothers, have constantly been renewed by faith in the American Dream of unlimited opportunity".

Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation

By the spring of 1946, Eckert and Mauchly had procured a U.S. Army contract for the University of Pennsylvania and were already designing the EDVAC — the successor machine to the ENIAC — at the university's Moore School of Electrical Engineering.

Edward Chiera

He was faculty of the University of Pennsylvania until 1927, at which time he joined the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

Eugene J. McCarthy Center for Public Policy

Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania

Gary A. Wegner

He is the father of Josef Wegner, professor of Egyptology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Hans Robert Schöler

He is professor of the Medical Faculty of the Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster and also adjunct professor of the University of Pennsylvania and the Hannover Medical School.

Herschel Leibowitz

He studied at the Sorbonne after his military service, and then resumed his studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

History of women in engineering

Similarly, Mary Engle Pennington (1872–1952), an American chemist and refrigeration engineer, completed the requirements for a BS degree in chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania in 1892, but was given a certificate of proficiency instead.

Infield fly rule

William S. Stevens was a law student in 1975 when he anonymously published "The Common Law Origins of the Infield Fly Rule" in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

Junhyong Kim

In 2002 he moved to the University of Pennsylvania where he is currently the Edmund J. and Louise Kahn Term Endowed Professor in Biology, an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, and the Co-Director of the Penn Genome Frontiers Institute.

Kurzban

Robert Kurzban, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania

Michael Bamberger

After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982, Bamberger became a reporter for the Vineyard Gazette on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

Mitchell Lazar

He trained in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and in Endocrinology at the Massachusetts General Hospital before joining the University of Pennsylvania faculty in 1989.

Morton Schindel

Born and raised in Orange, New Jersey, Schindel went to the University of Pennsylvania, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1939 from the Wharton School of Finance.

Occupy Philadelphia

October 21 - Occupy Philadelphia gathered at the University of Pennsylvania to confront Eric Cantor, the Republican House Majority Leader who has been highly critical of the Occupy movement protests.

Octavio M. Salati

Tav returned to the Moore School of Electrical Engineering as a research associate in 1948, received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1963, and became professor of electrical engineering in 1975.

Paul G. Haaga, Jr.

He has also served as President of the Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Director of NPR, Chairman of the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, President and Major Gifts Chair for Princeton’s Class of 1970 and a Trustee of the Princeton Rugby Endowment.

Peter Dodson

A professor of vertebrate paleontology and of veterinary anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania, Dodson has also taught courses in geology, history, history and sociology of science, and religious studies.

Professional Action Learning

PAL was developed over the course of Dr. Sabrina Kay’s Master’s Degree and doctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Education and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Rodney Cocks

Cocks is an MBA graduate from The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania school in the US, where he was awarded a Joseph Wharton Scholarship.

Rozin

Paul Rozin (21st century), psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania

Rudolph Sze

In April 1911, the University of Pennsylvania team (Whitaker, Sze and M. J. Teltelbaum) toured New England, where they played matches against Harvard University, Yale University, and Brown University Chess Clubs.

Salati

Octavio M. Salati (1914–2001), Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania

Samuel Feltman

In 1946, John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert developed the first electronic computer at the University of Pennsylvania.

South Brook Farm

Since 1958, the house has been the centerpiece of the University of Pennsylvania's veterinary and animal research complex known as the New Bolton Center.

Thomas Gates

Thomas Sovereign Gates (1873–1948), U.S. educator, first president of the University of Pennsylvania

Thomas Gerrity

Thomas P. Gerrity, former dean and professor of management at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania

William Mitchell Ramsay

He received gold medals from Pope Leo XII, the University of Pennsylvania, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, and was knighted in 1906.

William Pepper

A bronze statue of Pepper by Karl Bitter stands on the south side of College Hall at the University of Pennsylvania.

William Shainline Middleton

Middleton was an honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (UK); a Master and former President of the American College of Physicians; a recipient of the Alumni Award of Merit from the University of Pennsylvania; and a recipient of the UW Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching.

WisdomTree Investments

Between 2004 and 2005, the company obtained financing from a core group of investors including former hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt, Professor Jeremy Siegel of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and James D Robinson IV with venture capital firm of RRE Ventures.