Meet Princess Aghayere, One of the Seniors Who Won The President's Engagement Prize
Princess Aghayere (C'19) remembers waking up at 6 a.m. to teach basketball to teenage boys in Rwanda.
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Princess Aghayere (C'19) remembers waking up at 6 a.m. to teach basketball to teenage boys in Rwanda.
When you're in a grocery store, do you notice that the avocados are too hard, or the pears are too soft? Or glance at a rack of browning bananas with resignation, knowing that they'll be too mushy to consume? Or maybe the greenish tinge tells you that they won't be ripe for another few days.
Professor Paul Rozin never lingers on anything. Every few years, his research takes a new turn, or he decides to teach a different course—and sometimes, he creates his own.
Imagine attending an opera in the late 1600s—being seated in a cavernous theater, gazing at the brightly lit stage where decorated actors are about to begin performing. Suddenly, a lively chorus from the orchestra fills the air, instantly capturing your focus and pulling you forward in your seat, eager to hear more. Although the musicians are playing an assortment of strings, harpsichords, and recorders, the buoyant melody that enraptures the audience blends together flawlessly.
According to the Women in Computer Science (WICS) Census of 287 students in the Computer and Information Science (CIS) department last year, 55 percent of females in the CIS major at Penn have been told that their gender "unfairly contributed to [their] acceptance to Penn Engineering." According to that same survey, 54 percent of all females "have been/felt judged or micro–aggressed for studying Computer Science based on [their] race, ethnicity, gender identity, or sexual orientation," and 55 percent of females in CIS "feel intimidated studying Computer Science/Engineering."
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