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April 25, 2011
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Fels Notes and Reminders   

  

This will be the last edition of This Week at Fels for this academic year.  We'll send a monthly email in June, July and August.  In the meantime, if you have announcements or want to share information with the Fels community this summer, please post them on the Fels Facebook page.  We'll be posting there as well. 


1. We wish you the very best of success with your final exams, papers and projects! 

 

2. Research & Consulting Update   

On April 9, 2011, R&C associate consultant, Christina Tierno, presented at the 14th Annual Environmental Advisory Council (EAC) Conference as part of her consulting work with the EAC. The conference was held at Villanova University and brought together EACs from across the region to learn about how communities can better manage stormwater runoff, protect open space, develop trails, and promote green development.

3. Fels Building

Reading days and the final exam period are a great time to make use of the Fels building to study, work on projects and chat with your friends.  Several times in the last month, however, students have left doors open, particularly in the Sweeney Room.  Please please please remember to close any doors you see open on the weekends and police your trash.  We don't have housekeeping or security on the weekend so we need your help!

4. Summer Courses

The first day of Saturday classes is May 14th.  Public Speaking will begin on May 10th and Social Innovations begins on May 18th.  If you have any questions about the summer schedule, please be in touch with Karen.  Executive and Certificate students will also receive a more detailed email next week.

5. GRADUATION!  May 15, 2011!

 

The Fels directors and staff would like to extend congratulations to the following 2011 candidates who have been selected by the faculty and their peers to provide student remarks and receive an award at graduation: 

 

Emily Margaret Reading Castor  

     Institutional Service Award

Ellen Marie Kamei

     Institutional Service Award

Stephanie Diane Lerner

     Audrey Miller Poritzky Leadership Award

Miriam Manon
     Student Speaker

Maria de las Mercedes Pérez Millán

    Student Speaker

Danielle Redden
   Public Service Award
Christopher Kyle Rupe
   Public Service Award
Josh Wheeling
   IM Captain of the Year


Congratulations to Robert W. Pearson who has been selected by the class of 2011 to receive the 2011 Teaching Award. 

 

Stephen Goldsmith will be addressing the class of 2011.   Currently Michael Bloomberg's Deputy Mayor for Operations, Goldsmith has had a very Fels-like career as a prosecutor, Mayor of Indianapolis, candidate for Governor of Indiana, professor at Harvard and public leader.  He has also published a number of books including The Entrepreneurial City and, most recently, The Power of Social Innovation.  Take a look at this New York Times feature on his appointment to Bloomberg's administration.  

 

He will be introduced by Terrence J. Tracy, Jr., Class of 2011. 

 

We welcome volunteers who are not graduating to assist with greeting guests and handing out programs at graduation.  Please email Ilene Ford if you are planning to attend graduation and would like to help. 
  
 

Student Spotlight: Class of 2013!

A few interesting highlights about Fels' incoming class:

 

This year we received a record number of applications to the full-time program.  For the first time ever, we engaged alumni volunteers to help us interview and were able to meet many of our applicants via campus visits.  Moreover, a number of current students helped us by talking to applicants, taking them on campus tours, and participating in info sessions and other admissions events.  We are so grateful to all of you for your time and energy.

 

After months of review, the admissions committee made offers to 34% of the applicants, resulting in a diverse and impressive group of admitted students.  The geographic breakdown for this group was as follows:

- DC region: 17%

- Midwest: 10%

- Northeast: 32%

- South: 10%

- West: 10%

- International: 20%

 

The international students represented the following countries: Armenia, Chile, China, Mexico, Israel, Japan, Kuwait, Pakistan, Russia, Spain, South Korea, Turkey.

       

8% of the group was comprised of outstanding college seniors with

significant internship and volunteer experience; the others most recently

served with distinction in the following sectors:

 

- Nonprofit/NGO: 24%

- Government/politics: 22%

- Teaching/education: 18%

- Private sector: 15%

- Peace Corps or other international volunteer org: 10%

- Military: 2%

 

40% of US admitted students participated in a national service program

(such as City Year, Teach for America, Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Jesuit

Volunteer Corps, etc) at some point in their professional careers.

 

At this time, 39 admitted students have accepted our offer so we'll have a nice, big group of first-years to welcome at Orientation in August!

 

Stay tuned to our first "This Month at Fels" email to learn more about the recently accepted executive student class.

 

Career Development Resources and Events

 

Careers in Consulting Panel Discussion and Networking Event - hosted by PGCG 

Sponsored by PGCG, GAPSA, Penn Dept. of Microbiology, Penn Biotech Group and Career Services

 

Please RSVP by Monday, April 24th, 12pm to be guaranteed food! Click here to register.

 

Date: April 28th 2011, 5:15-7:45 PMLocation: Austrian Auditorium, 1st Floor of Clinical Research Building (CRB)

Address: 415 Curie Blvd., Philadelphia, PA, 19104

Attire: Business Casual recommended, especially if you are looking for a position!  Food and Drink will be provided.  

 

The Penn Graduate Consulting Group is excited to announce a panel discussion session featuring 4 consulting firms and a life science career development firm. The participating consulting firms are interested in recruiting graduate students and post-docs. Each firm will give a brief presentation, followed by ample time for questions and networking. This event will allow you to learn about career opportunities with a variety of consulting firms, from mid-size management consulting firms to specialized life science boutique firms, and get advice from recruiters and alumni regarding the application process. Come and introduce yourself to get a leg up in the recruiting and interview process!

 

The following firms will be in attendance:

ˇ         Clarion Healthcare, "Strategic and organizational consulting to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device/diagnostic businesses."

ˇ         L.E.K., A global strategy consulting firm working across a range of industries, including biopharmaceuticals, life sciences, and healthcare services.

ˇ         Propel Careers, a life sciences search and career development firm, dedicated to networking and career development.

ˇ         Putnam Associates, "Strategy consulting firm focused on the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, diagnostics, and medical device industries."

ˇ         Trinity Partners, A life science consulting firm focused on pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and diagnostic companies.

 

RSVP required: To RSVP, please follow the link below and fill out the form.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VDG78WB  

 

If you have any questions, or if you have RSVPed and can no longer attend, please contact the Penn Graduate Consulting Group at pgcg.comm@gmail.com. 

 

 

Assessing Your Skills to Seek Out New Career Possibilities 

Monday 2nd May, 12:00-1:30pm, McNeil Building, Room 97

 

Join us for this interactive workshop where you will be able to think about the type of transferable skills you can successfully utilize outside of academia. We will explore ways of looking at academic and non-academic experiences to help you with the process of self-assessing the skills you have, and the skills you most enjoy putting into practice.

 

If you have trouble thinking about what you can do with your academic experiences, or if you feel that your topic of research limits the types of jobs you can do, then this workshop may help you see your experiences from a different perspective, a skill-focused perspective that may open your eyes to a wide range of alternative career opportunities. We will discuss the notion of the "career path" and explore the different types of "career goals" that one can have, and how this can affect your job searching strategy. In many cases, the process of seeking out new career possibilities starts with a self assessment of your own skills - focusing on the many things that you have already accomplished using those skills.

 

Want to get a head start on researching  your skills and alternative career possibilities? Then visit the "Career Discovery and Planning" pages of the Career Services website. You can also start thinking about how to talk about the many transferable skills you already have by reading "Using Dirty Diapers to Illustrate Transferable Skills" on the Career Services blog, Penn & Beyond.

 

Registration is not required for this workshop. This workshop is 90 minutes long to allow for interactive exercises. The PowerPoint used during the workshop will be made available as a PDF version.

 

We look forward to seeing you at this workshop.

Joseph

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Dr. Joseph Barber

Associate Director

Graduate Student/Postdoctoral Fellow Career Advisor

Career Services, University of Pennsylvania

3718 Locust Walk, Suite 20, McNeil Building, Philadelphia, PA

 

Japanese-English job fairs in 2011, and New Career Forum for bilingual students:

 

DISCO International, organizer of the largest job fair

for Japanese-English bilinguals, the Boston Career Forum,

will be holding several job fairs that we encourage

Japanese-English bilingual students take advantage of

this year.

 

DISCO will also be holding for the first time an

Asian Bilingual Career Forum!

 

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For Japanese-English bilingual students

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(possess at minimum conversation level in both

English and Japanese)

 

London Career Forum 2011: June 11th & 12th (Sat. & Sun.)

http://www.careerforum.net/event/ldn/?lang=E 

 

Tokyo Summer Career Forum 2011: June 27th & 28th (Mon. & Tues.)

http://www.careerforum.net/event/tks/?lang=E 

 

Los Angeles Career Forum 2011: Oct. 7th & 8th (Fri. & Sat.)

http://www.careerforum.net/event/la/?lang=E 

 

Boston Career Forum 2011: Nov. 11th - 13th (Fri. - Sun.)

Website available in late May

 

Tokyo Winter Career Forum 2011: mid-December

Website available in Nov.

 

Any questions about the Career Forum, please contact

us at cfn@careerforum.net

 

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For Asian-English bilingual students

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Asian Bilingual Career Forum 2011: Nov. 12th & 13th (Sat. & Sun.)

[INVITATION ONLY EVENT]

http://asian.careerforum.net/ (coming in late May)

 

Qualifications:

- must receive an invitation to attend

- bilingual in English and one other Asian language,

excluding Japanese (Ex. Chinese-English, Korean-English, etc.)

- received or have received a bachelor's degree or higher

from an US university

- available to work in Asia

 

Once the website becomes available for the Asian Bilingual

Career Forum, we will notify your school again with more details. 

Please be on a look out for information from your school in

late May.

 

We look forward to seeing you at one of our job fairs.

 

Sincerely,

 

DISCO International, Inc.

 

The Philadelphia Center for Architecture Announces Its 2011 Ed Bacon Student Design Competition

The Philadelphia Center for Architecture is excited to announce our upcoming 2011 Ed Bacon Student Design Competition, scheduled for September 2011.  For the sixth consecutive year, this international competition challenges students in all disciplines to focus on a real-world urban design problem. In the spirit of the competition's namesake, Edmund N. Bacon (head of Philadelphia's City Planning Commission from 1949-1970), the program focuses on encouraging multi-disciplinary, visionary ideas for our urban future.

 

Schedule:

Pre-Registration Due: Thursday, September 08, 2011 @ 11:59pm EST -

http://mcaf.ee/0f3a4 

Competition packets emailed on May 09, 2011 to all pre-registered individuals and teams

 

Final Entries Due: Friday, September 30, 2011 @ 11:59pm EST

Winners announced early 2012

 

Awards Ceremony: February 2012 (date TBD) @ the Philadelphia Center for Architecture

Pre-registration for Part 2 will be accepted starting April 2012

 

INTERSECT: What Happens When Transportation Corridors and Cities Collide?

 

When transportation corridors such as highways and rail lines meet dense urban areas, choices must be made about how to balance the needs of the transportation modes and the lively city it intersects. Across the world, cities have found innovative solutions for addressing issues relating to large-scale urban transportation infrastructure. Recently in the U.S. cities such as San Francisco, New York, and Minneapolis have transformed highways into urban boulevards. Boston buried Interstate 93 in the famous "Big Dig," but at a huge cost. Other cities have worked to bridge highways and rail corridors that separate downtowns from waterfronts. With international precedent for design solutions, the Center for Architecture challenges the next generation of urban thinkers to propose novel solutions to integrate Philadelphia's major transportation corridors into its urban fabric.

 

Part 1: East (2011 Competition)

Philadelphia's I-95 / CSX Corridor Interstate 95 on the Eastern edge of Philadelphia is due to be demolished and rebuilt within the next

several years, as it is nearing the end of its designed life. Further complicating the urban fabric in this area of the city is a lightly used but important freight rail line (owned and operated by CSX) which still weaves around the highway, its surrounding streets, and neighborhoods. How should the traffic, both passenger and freight, that currently flows along this major North/South corridor be addressed in a newly built Interstate solution? Competition boundaries: The I-95 transit corridor between the Ben Franklin

Bridge to the North and the Walt Whitman Bridge to the South.   


Student Life and Upcoming Events 

 

Students needing summer sublets in the Bay Area? 

A message below from a NASPAA contact.  For more information, contact Kari at khamilton@berkely.edu:  We have some UC Berkeley Goldman School MPP students leaving town this summer for internships, and who are looking to sublet their Oakland, Berkeley (and sometimes San Francisco) apartments.
 
If you have any students coming to the Bay Area for internships this summer, and who are looking for housing, you may invite them to email me. I will then forward their information along to our students.  

 

Register for Penn in Washington!

 

Interning in DC this summer?  Registration for the summer Penn in Washington program will open May 1; check our website for more information on events for the summer.

 

Furniture for Sale:

Hey there!
I'm selling some furniture and thought you might want to let future Felsians (or anyone else) know... Here is a link to the photos.
http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/858093/1/Furniture?h=51f63d
Thanks! Frankie 

 

FREE! Preparing Today's Students for Tomorrow's Jobs in Metropolitan America

Invitation and Registration: Preparing Today's Students for Tomorrow's Jobs in Metropolitan America Conference in Philadelphia

UPenn GSE & IUR Conference Planning Team

May 25 & 26, 2011

www.gse.upenn.edu/schooltowork   

 

GAPSA Weekly Email: April 25 edition


Are you going abroad this summer on a Penn affiliated/sponsored program? Please make sure you update your information and learn about this new Penn initiative http://www.gapsa.upenn.edu/archives/4847

1. SOCIAL EVENTS

a. GAPSA - XIX Happy Hour, April 26
b. GAPSA - 1st Reading Day Happy Hour, April 27
c. GAPSA Boat Cruise, April 29

2. CULTURAL EVENTS

a. GAPSA - Miss Saigon at the Walnut Street Theatre, April 29

3. FUNDING

a. Grant Advising Open Forum - Online Chat, April 28
b. Apply for the President's Award, Due date April 29
c. Find grants and fellowships, internships and part-time jobs

4. ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

a. Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students, April 28
b. Cracking the Code of Multidrug Recognition in BmrR, April 28
c. Careers in Consulting Panel Discussion and Networking Event, April 28
d. Essentials of Mending, May 11

5. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

a. The Art of Breathing, The Art of Meditation, April 21
b. PennRec: Outdoor Climbing Trip, April 30

6. OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

a. Penn Ice Rink at the Class of 1923 Arena Survey, 2011
b. Show your Support for Japan