Tuesday, December 6, 2011

12/6/11 - BWUA Executive Board Elections

Tonight, 10 BWUA members ran for the organization's 5 executive board positions. The presentations and deliberations took 3 hours but when all was said and done, the club had a new core leadership group for the upcoming year.

Congratulations to the new Executive Board!
President - Jarrid Tingle
VP of Finance - Kelsey Taylor
VP of Corporate Development - Marcus Hawkins-Dungey
VP of External Affairs - Oyinda Adefioye
VP of Internal Affairs - Paul Ampofo

Friday, December 2, 2011

12/1/11-12/2/11 - The 26th Annual HEMM Conference

On the first two days of December, The Black Wharton Undergraduate Association began the internship recruiting season by hosting its largest event of the year. The Howard E. Mitchell Memorial Conference is BWUA’s annual conference wherein members are allowed to network and interact with potential employers. This year, Jarrid Tingle and Oyinda Adefoiye expertly planned the conference along with the help of members of the HEMM Committee.The event began Thursday night with the alumni desert reception, in which alumni, recruiters and students gathered on the eighth floor of Huntsman Hall for a night of informal networking and a performance from one of Penn’s student performance groups, The Inspiration. On Friday December 2nd, all sixteen corporate sponsors were present for a day which began with a career fair followed by two discussion panels and concluded by a celebratory luncheon featuring keynote speaker Marc Morial.