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On the Front Page: April 6, 2004
W. Floyd

Beverly Enterprises' $1 Million Grant to School of Nursing for Geriatric Nurses
Beverly Enterprises, Inc., and the School of Nursing announced last Thursday that Beverly will donate $1 million to the school to establish the Penn-Beverly Partnership Fund. The fund primarily will be used to create a scholarship program for Penn nursing students.

G. Gorton

Robert Morris Professor of Banking: Dr. Gorton
Dr. Gary B. Gorton has been appointed as the Robert Morris Professor of Banking, which was effective July 1, 2003. Dr. Gorton has been a member of Wharton's faculty since 1984 and is a professor of economics in  the School of Arts and Sciences. He also is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Grad School Rankings
Four of Penn's schools are on the top ten list of the best graduate schools compiled by U.S. News & World Report. The complete survey is in the newsstand book, America's Best Graduate Schools which came out yesterday. Excerpts are in the April 12 issue of the magazine. The following is a list of the schools and their ranking.

 

 


  Almanac, Vol. 50, No. 28, April 6, 2004

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