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Laura Perna Named Inaugural James S. Riepe Professor in Penn’s Graduate School of Education

Kat Stein

Penn News

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Laura Perna has been named the James S. Riepe Professor in the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. This newly created professorship has been awarded by Penn President Amy Gutmann in honor of the former chairman of Penn’s Board of Trustees.

“Jim Riepe’s decades of unbounded and unselfish service to Penn have set a very high standard for how an alumnus gives back to his alma mater,” Gutmann said. “From serving for 10 years as an active and engaged chair of the Board of Trustees to the philanthropic generosity he and his wife, Gail, have shown, Jim is one of Penn’s heroes.

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