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“She is not only making history
as the first female and first
African-American president of
this great school, her resume is
spectacular. Her accomplishments
make her more than eminently
qualified for this position.”
- Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter
Welcome Home
USciences names its 22nd president
“We recognized that we
had to find exactly the right
person who would lead and
guide us—seizing opportunities
and successfully facing challenges.
We have found just that person,
and I feel very fortunate.”
- Board Chairman Marvin Samson
Dr. Helen F. Giles-Gee
is no stranger to Philadelphia
It was quite a homecoming for Dr. HELEN F. GILES-GEE.
A standing-room-only crowd at USciences’ McNeil Science
and Technology Center was packed with University faculty,
staff, and students, as well as honored guests, to welcome
the University’s 22nd president on March 23, 2012.
Dr. Giles-Gee, who had served as president at Keene State
College in Keene, New Hampshire, since 2005, spent quite
a bit of time in the Delaware Valley, first as a student at
University of Pennsylvania for her undergraduate, master’s,
and doctoral degrees and then later as provost at Rowan
University. And her connection to USciences is even closer
as she took pre-graduate classes at one point from then-
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science.
“I look forward to working with
[Dr. Giles-Gee] and shaping policies
and taking new initiatives that will
raise University of the Sciences
to the position of visibility that
it should have not only in West
Philadelphia but in Philadelphia,
the state, and the nation.”
- Rep. James R. Roebuck, Jr.,
188th Legislative District