Daniels Creates First Graduate Fellowship In Economics Department
May 22, 2001
University Park, Pa.—Penn State alumnus Robert C. Daniels of Villanova has given $125,000 to fund a graduate fellowship in the Department of Economics in Penn State’s College of the Liberal Arts. The Robert C. Daniels Graduate Fellowship in Economics provides the department with its first graduate fellowship.
Because of his experience on the development boards of the College of the Liberal Arts, Duke University and Temple University Law School, Daniels said he knows how important graduate fellowships are to building excellent departments.
“The attraction of bright, energetic graduate students can lift dramatically a university’s standing in educational and academic communities. I am glad to be involved in that,” he said. “Also, my son, Chris, was an economics major at Penn State in the honors program. I wanted to help the department, since they did such a good job.”
Bob Daniels graduated from Penn State in 1959 with a degree in arts and letters. He was a First Honor Graduate from Temple University School of Law in 1962, and later was a judicial law clerk in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Over the years he built a successful law practice in Philadelphia. He has served as chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association, president of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, chairman of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and as a member of the Philadelphia Bar Foundation, the charitable arm of the Philadelphia Bar Association.
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