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Director, CURF, and Associate Director, University Scholars A native Bostonian, Harriet graduated from the University of Wisconsin, and went on to receive her ED.D from Temple in Urban Education. She is a Penn veteran, having spent seven years as an Assistant Dean in The College office at Penn and then seven years as the Director of the Alumni Council on Admissions. When not advising University Scholars and the occasional BFS student, Harriet can be found cheering on the Penn Basketball team. |
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Associate Director, Benjamin Franklin Scholars Linda Wiedmann is a native of Philadelphia. She is one of two advisors for the Benjamin Franklin Scholars program, and she has helped to create innovative seminars. In addition, she has developed opportunities for student research, and she has established the Directory of Fellowships, Scholarships and Grants. She has a particular interest in the role of women in higher education and is the president of Penn's Association of Women Faculty and Administrators. Linda received her bachelor's degree from Bucknell University. |
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Faculty Director, Benjamin Franklin Scholars Paul Heiney, Academic Director of the BFS program, is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania and is also affiliated with the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, where he co-directs the Multiple-Angle X-ray Scattering (MAXS) facility. His current research interests include dendrimers, colloids, and liquid crystals. He was educated at the University of California at Santa Barbara in the College of Creative Studies, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
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Faculty Director, University Scholars Michael Zuckerman, one of University Scholar's two Faculty Directors, is a professor in the Department of History. He teaches courses in popular culture, national character, human nature, and religion. He has written on subjects from democracy to family life to business, from American identity to the Constitution to religion, from the university to children's rights to race to the role of ideas in history, and on people from Thomas Jefferson to P. T. Barnum to Oliver North, from Horatio Alger to Lewis Mumford to Doctor Spock. He is now finishing the editing of a collaboration of historians and developmental psychologists on the history of childhood from the middle ages to the new millennium. |
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Faculty Director, University Scholars Max Mintz, one of University Scholar's two Faculty Directors,, is a professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science. His research program focuses on developing robust algorithms for decision-making under uncertainty with applications to machine perception and robotics. Recent and current research topics include: robust fixed-geometry confidence regions for multivariate location parameters; algorithms for robust multisensor fusion; algorithms for set-valued state estimation with performance guarantees; applications of confidence sets in mobile robotics and computational vision. |
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Research Coordinator Cheryl Shipman is a Penn alumna with an interest in alternatives to capitalist economics and consumer culture. She's an active volunteer at the CA House and Crossroads Music. Cheryl provides administrative support (details and deadlines) for fellowship applicants, as well as advising and assisting those seeking research opportunities and funding. She has a weakness for cats. |
Gwynne Lynch
Part-time Advisor, Benjamin Franklin Scholars Program
gwynne@upenn.edu
215-746-6491
Gwynne Ryan Lynch graduated from Penn with a degree in psychology. After two years of living and working in
Administrative Assistant Carrie Luippold is orginally from Massachusetts. Her favorite pass time is going out dancing and playing tennis. |
Administrative Assistant Griselle Rodriguez-Gonzalez is responsible for all day to day activities. Creating order out of chaos and herding cats! |