2015 Doer Award from Urban Affairs Coalition: Penn President Amy Gutmann	Print Issue
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Penn President Amy Gutmann recently received the 2015 Doer Award from the Urban Affairs Coalition in Philadelphia.

The award was presented to Dr. Gutmann at the group’s 46th Annual Breakfast with the theme “Breaking Barriers, Building Coalitions.” Ed Rendell, C’65, former Pennsylvania governor and Philadelphia mayor, was the namesake of the award when it was created 16 years ago as he completed his second and final term as mayor. Last month, he made the presentation to Dr. Gutmann, who is a true “Doer” like himself.

The award recognizes Dr. Gutmann as “a person who has made things happen and who has created opportunity for all.”

Mayor Michael Nutter, W’79, was among the city government officials in attendance. 

Dr. Gutmann has been president of Penn since 2004, and in 2009 President Barack Obama named her to chair the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (Almanac December 8, 2009). She served as chair of the Association of American Universities in 2014-2015 (Almanac November 25, 2014) and serves on the National Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences (Almanac March 1, 2011) and on the boards of the National Constitution Center and the Vanguard Group.

President Gutmann has been honored with the 2003 Harvard University Centennial Medal and the 2009 Carnegie Corporation Academic Leadership Award. In 2011, she was named by Newsweek as one of the “150 Women Who Shake the World,” and in 2014 she received the Anti-Defamation League’s Americanism Award.