What's New in the SAS Graduate Division
Scholarly Achievements
Emily Pawley (History and Sociology of Science) has won the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the 2007-2008 competition year.
Divya Roy (History and Sociology of Science) has won the Helfand Fellowship for 2008-2009.
The following SAS graduate students were honored with the 2008 Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching: Seth Bernard (Ancient History), Merline Chowkwanyun (History), Chrostopher MacDermaid (Chemistry), Kaija Schilde (Political Science), Gil Shapira (Economics), Pesia Soloveichik (Chemistry), Stephan Stohler (Political Science), Nicole Turner (History), Todd Wolfson (Anthropology), and Matthew Wright (Mathematics).
Gregory Tentler (History of Art) has won the Donald and Maria Cox Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize.
Emily Hauze (Germanic Languages) has won both a DAAD and a Fulbright Fellowship for the upcoming academic year.
Lori Sundberg (Germanic Languages) has won a Fulbright Fellowship for the upcoming academic year.
Curtis Swope (Germanic Languages) has won Penn's Critical Speaking Fellowship.
Kerry Wallach (Germanic Languages) has won the prestigious Leo Baeck Institute London/Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes Fellowship, as well as a Fulbright Fellowship for the upcoming academic year.
Congratulations to the 2008 SAS Dean's Scholars from the Graduate Division: Uygar Abaci (Philosophy); Paul Babb (Anthropology); Jay Fournier (Psychology); Ellery Foutch (History of Art); Jeremy Lefkowitz (Classical Studies); Andrew McPherson (Music); Andrew Pike (Earth and Environmental Science); Norah Simpson (Psychology) and Gavin Steingo (Music).
Claire Lim (Economics) is featured in the SAS Frontiers March 2008 Newsletter for her research on the differences between the decisions of elected and appointed judges.
Anna Weesner (Music) has been given an Academy Award by teh American Academy of Arts and Letters "which honors outstanding artistic achievement and acknowledges the composer who has arrived at his or her own voice."
Andrew McPherson (Music) received the "Charles Ives Scholarship," "given to composition students of great promise," awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
The following students in the Art & Archaeology of the Mediterranean World program have won Louis J. Kolb Fellowships: Elif Ünlü, Miriam Clinton, Justin Leidwanger, and Emerson Avery.
Seth Bernard (Ancient History) has won a Louis J. Kolb Fellowship.
Julia Perratore (History of Art) has won a Louis J. Kolb Fellowship.
Matthew Belcher (Germanic Languages) won the Berlin Exchange Fellowship to the Freie Universitaet Berlin for the coming year
Vladimir Simov (Chemistry) entered the Chemistry program with a Zewail fellowship and is a 2007-2008 recipient of a Bristol-Myers Squibb Fellowship. He also won a commendation for graduate student teaching for the 2006-2007 academic year.
Barbara Jane Morgan (Chemistry) was a 2007 recipient of a SAS Dissertation Fellowship, as well as a Novartis Fellowship.
Stephan Zink (Art & Archaeology of the Mediterranean World) has won the Graduate Student Paper Award of the Archaeological Institute of America. This award recognizes the best paper delivered by a graduate student at the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. Stephan won for his paper "Augustus' Temple of Apollo on the Palatine: A New Reconstruction."
Carl Modes (Physics & Astronomy) was named as one of the finalists for the American Physical Society's Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (GSNP) student prize for 2008.
Graduate Division Commencement Speeches
2006: Dr. Brendan O'Leary