On Sunday, May 16, Penn’s College of Liberal and Professional Studies (LPS) welcomed family, friends, and faculty for the Class of 2021 virtual graduation celebration. Of the 285 LPS students honored, 235 graduated with master’s degrees and 50 with undergraduate degrees.
As the Director of Culture and Empowerment at Ron Brown Preparatory High School in Washington D.C., Dawaine Cosey manages the student experience as well as parent and social media engagement. Dawaine says that he essentially had the opportunity to create the position for himself, and now, as a student in the Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) at Penn, he sees that he has been using fundamentals of positive psychology in his job all along.
In honor of her efforts to help solve some of the world’s most urgent challenges, Cristina Bicchieri has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the oldest learned societies in the United States, founded in 1780 during the American Revolution. Their aim is to work together “to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.”
Denise Dahlhoff (Master of Philosophy in Liberal Arts ’10) already held a PhD in marketing and an established career in marketing-related consulting and academia when she began looking for her next academic challenge. “I love studying. I love learning and expanding my horizons,” she explains. “In fact, I specifically wanted to study something that had nothing to do with my day job.” Her intellectual curiosity led her to Penn’s Master of Liberal Arts (MLA) degree, where she studied subjects from university governance and life stories to urban folklore and the history of pop culture.
The College of Liberal and Professional Studies congratulates Leona Brandwene who has been announced as one of the winners of the 2021 awards for distinguished teaching in the School of Arts and Sciences.
Congratulations to College of Liberal and Professional Studies students Emily Davis and Haley Zeliff for being named Dean’s Scholars, an honor presented annually to students who exhibit exceptional academic performance and intellectual promise.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the winners of its ninth annual Campus RainWorks Challenge, including the Master of Environmental Studies (MES) student team who was awarded first place in the demonstration project category. The Campus Rainworks Challenge is a national competition that invites college students to address stormwater pollution by designing green infrastructure solutions for local school or college campuses.
On April 21, Penn alumna Felicia LeSure (Organizational Dynamics ’20) is presenting her work in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Symposium at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS).
The Free Library of Philadelphia Board of Trustees has elected Folasade (Sade) Olanipekun-Lewis to serve as its new chair starting in June 2021. “The 21st century library is more than a place where you go to check out books,” says Olanipekun-Lewis, who has served as treasurer for the library’s board since 2016, as well as the co-chair of the board’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. “It’s become our neighborhood cultural center. It’s become our neighborhood job placement center. It’s become a place where we feed our children. It’s a nucleus and a safe haven.”
Growing up with a father who was an educator at Strawberry Mansion high school, notorious for being one of the most underserved high schools in the country, Frank Jackson, a student in the Master of Applied Positive Psychology program, never imagined that he would be drawn to being an educator; however, upon completing his undergraduate degree in journalism at Texas Christian University, he joined Teach For America because he says he was “drawn by its mission of equity.” Frank was no stranger to inequity, for in contrast to the un
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