PHILADELPHIA –- Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania, has been selected by President Obama to chair the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. As head of the commission, Gutmann, president of Penn since 2004 and a prominent political scientist, will advise the President on a range of bioethical issues.

The commission will work with the goal of identifying and promoting policies and practices to ensure that scientific research, health-care delivery and technological innovation are conducted in an ethically responsible manner.

As Penn's president, Gutmann has been a forceful advocate for access to higher education, for dismantling the boundaries among academic disciplines and for increasing student and faculty engagement with communities both domestically and across the globe.

The official White House announcement of Gutmann’s appointement is at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/president-obama-establishes-new-presidential-commission-study-bioethical-issues-nam.

September 13, 2009: Amy Gutmann, President, University of Pennsylvania speech during the inauguration of Ronald J. Daniels as the 14th president of The Johns Hopkins University.

Gov. Rendell is pushing for Pennsylvania's legislature to enact a state building code that would require environmentally friendly, energy-efficient construction. Whether he wants both residential and commercial development included is not yet known.

The Pennsylvania System of School Assessment, also known as PSSA, measures how well students have achieved in reading and mathematics according to Pennsylvania’s world-class academic standards. By using these standards, educators, parents and administrators can evaluate their students’ strengths and weaknesses to increase students’ achievement scores. According to the federal No Child Left Behind Act, students must be 100 % proficient in reading and math by 2014.

On this site you will find District and School Reports that contain: * Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) targets and results for 2007-08 * Last year's results and next year's targets * Discussion of results for parents and educators

EdNA (Education Names and Addresses) can be used to find name, address, administrator, and related information about the educational entities that PDE serves. These entities include school districts and their schools, intermediate units, area vocational technical schools, charter schools, nonpublic and private schools, higher education institutions, and many more.

A conversation with four Jewish college presidents on the meaning of a university education and the role of religion in campus life.

Book overview (from Google Books)

A portrait of Penn President, Amy Gumann, recently added to the the Wikimedia Commons.

Book overview (from Google Books)

Book overview (from Google Books)

University of Pennsylvania's Amy Gutmann writes a page from her autobiography

Faculty from the University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts and Sciences, School of Law and School of Medicine discuss emerging issues, ethics and options related to recent advances in neuroscience.

Commencement addresses by Penn President, Dr. Amy Gutmann and Google CEO, Eric Schmidt

University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann has joined efforts to secure the release of an Iranian scholar who was to begin this semester as a Penn visiting scholar.

President Amy Gutmann is featured discussing Penn and Philadelphia. Includes one of my photographs :)

Hazleton's anti-illegal immigrant law back in court
Panel of judges to hear case four days before Nov. 4 election in which mayor is running for Congress.

By John J. Moser |Of The Morning Call

September 9, 2008

Hazleton will get to argue before a federal appeals court on Oct. 31 that a judge wrongly struck down the city's ordinance making it illegal to hire or rent housing to illegal immigrants, Mayor Lou Barletta announced Monday.

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to have the appeal heard by a three-judge panel, and recent rulings by other federal appeals courts have given the city hope it can prevail, said Kris Kobach and Hank Mahoney, attorneys representing the city in defending its Illegal Immigration Relief Act

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Write stuff about this.

This website is on about.com. It's by Kimberly and Albrecht Powell. It talks about capital punishment in the state of Pennsylvania. It gives historic facts about lynching (hanging), the electric chair, and lethal injection.

The 1,341-acre White Clay Creek Preserve is in southern Chester County, three miles north of Newark, Delaware. The White Clay Creek Valley, which forms the core of the Preserve, varies from steep to gradually falling terrain with some flat bottomlands. White Clay Creek Preserve shares boundary with White Clay Creek State Park of Delaware.

Because White Clay Creek posses outstanding scenic, wildlife, recreational and cultural value, it has been designated by Congress as a National Wild and Scenic River, and shall be preserved in free-flowing condition for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations.

Recent media coverage of Penn President Amy Gutmann (http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/amy_gutmann.php). I've also created an RSS feed - available at http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/rss/amy_gutmann_news.xml.

Dr. Amy Gutmann, Penn's president, presented the Inaugural Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize to Alice M Rivlin on May 8th, 2008. Excerpts from her address can be found on the AAPSS blog

This place is an amazing place to hike.

Founded in 1970, the Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust is a nonprofit land trust headquartered in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania. The Trust is staffed by professionals and volunteers dedicated to the stewardship of the lands that are protected by the Trust in its Pennypack Preserve natural area. The Trust offers a variety of programs and services including, but not limited to:

• Trails in the Preserve open free to the public to explore
  and enjoy the natural world all year long
• Professionally managed natural area restoration
• Urban deer herd management
• Volunteer training
• Meeting facilities for community organizations
• Professional education and internships

In May 2008, Dr. Amy Gutmann, Penn President, met with students from the Harlem Village Academy to talk about student financial aid and the Penn Compact, Penn's efforts to increase access, integrate knowledge, and engage locally and globally with communit

Well equipped glass blowing studio. Opened in the East Falls section of Philadelphia in Jan. 2006. Holds an Open House on the 2nd Saturday of some months.  Check the website for details.

Offers classes and studio rental along with a small gallery of works by local artists.

 Check out Jon Goldberg (the shop's owner) work.

But whose fault is that?

In Pennsylvania, the state prevents regional transit agencies and local governments from raising money in many of the ways used by their counterparts elsewhere.

Colorado and Georgia provide none of the money to operate Denver's and Atlanta's mass transit. Instead, they authorize local sales taxes, approved by local voters. New York, Michigan, Illinois and Ohio are among the states where local property taxes are earmarked for mass transit. Los Angeles County uses a 1 percent sales tax, approved by county voters.

Thirty-three states have authorized local or regional sales taxes specifically for transportation.

Not Pennsylvania.

This museum is actually focused on celebrating and encouraging America's history of freedom and tolerence.

They are included as part of this tagging project because they hold a collection of over 100 pieces of art glass (intended to signify the fragility of liberty). The collection includes Dale Chihuly's 20 foot tall 'Flame of Liberty' and a 6 foot cast sculpture by Libensky and Brychtova.

One of the Liberty Museum's main supporters is the Coalition of Glass Collectors and Artists. The Coalition holds an annual weekend event, called Glass Now that includes an impressive auction of work by contemporary glass artists.

A benchmarking study of transportation funding and policy in Pennsylvania and similar states.

Executive Summary (PDF Format)
Full Report (PDF Format)
date: 2006 (October)
partner(s): Allegheny Conference on Community Development and the Pennsylvania Environmental Council
funder(s): 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania, Associated Pennsylvania Constructors, CEO Council for Growth, and the William Penn Foundation

The literary map of Pennsylvania is a graphic display of the literary history of our Commonwealth. On the map you'll find writers of novels, plays, short stories, technical manuals, legislation, children's literature…just about anything you could imagine connected to writing.

Click on a county to see authors from that county with biographies and lists of works.