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WWW.SEAS.UPENN.EDU Celebrating Penn Engineering By Patricia Hutchings As a major contributor to the extraordinary goalshattering success of the University’s Making History fundraising campaign, Penn Engineering made history in its own right at the notable conclusion of Making History Through Innovation in December. The School raised a transformative $180.5 million, $30.5 million over the goal. In 2007, with $150 million as its target, Penn Engineering launched a campaign informed by strong and passionate leadership, a shared mission with the University and clear priorities. Engineering alumni and friends of all ages, experience and financial ability were urged to harness their unique powers of imagination to envision and help create the school of the future. Funding to build and renovate facilities, faculty support, undergraduate and graduate student financial aid, student programs and unrestricted giving provided the framework for campaign outreach. Campaign funds from across the University have already transformed Engineering’s corner of campus. The George A. Weiss Pavilion and Fox Fitness Center at Franklin Field and the open space of Shoemaker Green have enhanced the surrounding landscape, and a quick cut-across now leads the way to lunchtime pick-up games of soccer at Penn Park. Penn as an Intellectual Powerhouse in Nanoscale Research The Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology, on track for an October 2013 dedication, is expected to establish Penn as an intellectual powerhouse in nanoscale research. Singh Center architects, Weiss/ Manfredi, did not allow the demanding specifications of nanoscale research to limit their creative aspirations, and the facility is a head-turning attraction on Walnut Street near 33rd Street. Contributions supporting the Singh Center totaled close to $55 million, with gifts naming the nanofabrication facility, individual and microscopy laboratories and the rooftop garden. At the same time, loyal alumni and friends of the Towne and Moore School buildings designated their dollars to carefully revitalizing Penn Engineering’s historic spaces with all of the amenities of the 21 st century. While the campus around them changes in exciting ways, Penn Engineering students remain focused on the work at hand, taking advantage of newly established programs designed to even better prepare them as innovators and shapers of the future. Campaign gifts for student programs reached 285 percent of the goal, establishing unique resources like Advancing Women in Engineering (AWE), the Rachleff Scholars Program, the Rajendra and Neera Singh Program in Networked & Social Systems Engineering (NETS), and the Warren Center. The Penn Engineering deanship, newly endowed by Ofer and Shelly Nemirovsky and held by Eduardo D. Glandt, guarantees that the School will continue to attract distinguished leaders of like talent and ability. Importantly, gifts in support of financial aid bolstered the University’s all-grant, no-loan undergraduate policy and graduate aid, guaranteeing that all qualified students with the talent and ambition to succeed are ensured access regardless of socioeconomic background. SPRING 2013 n 28
The Penn Engineering deanship, newly endowed by Ofer and Shelly Nemirovsky and held by Eduardo D. Glandt, guarantees that the School will continue to attract distinguished leaders of like talent and ability. Ofer Nemirovsky, Shelly Nemirovsky and Eduardo D. Glandt, Nemirovsky Family Dean PENN ENGINEERING n 29
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The Penn <strong>Engineering</strong> deanship, newly<br />
endowed by Ofer <strong>and</strong> Shelly Nemirovsky<br />
<strong>and</strong> held by Eduardo D. Gl<strong>and</strong>t, guarantees<br />
that <strong>the</strong> <strong>School</strong> will continue to attract<br />
distinguished leaders <strong>of</strong> like talent<br />
<strong>and</strong> ability.<br />
Ofer Nemirovsky, Shelly Nemirovsky <strong>and</strong> Eduardo D. Gl<strong>and</strong>t, Nemirovsky Family Dean<br />
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