Honors and Awards
SAS Faculty Honors
Student Awards
Distinguished Alumni Award
Recent Appointments
Ralph Hirschmann Inducted into Chemistry Hall of Fame. July 2007. Retired chemistry professor honored by the American Chemical Society’s Division of Medicinal Chemistry.
Richard Johnston Wins American Political Science Association Book Award. July 2007. Political science professor’s book examines the shift in Southern political allegiance from Democratic to Republican.
Assistant Professor in Psychology Receives Teaching Award. July 2007. Amishi Jha has been selected to receive this year’s Charles Ludwig Distinguished Teaching Award.
Assistant Professor of English Receives Best Book Award. June 2007. Zachary Lesser awarded Elizabeth Dietz Prize
Political Science Department’s Julia Lynch Wins Award for Best Book on European Politics and Society. June 2007. Assistant professor’s book explores how and why nations vary in their social spending on different age groups.
Political Science Professor Named to Endowed Chair. May 2007. Devesh Kapur receives endowed chair.
SAS Professors Named to Endowed Chairs. May 2007. Jamal Elias and David Harbater appointed to named chairs.
Science Professors Named to Chairs. May 2007. Four scientists receive endowed chairs.
English Professors Named to Chairs. April 2007. Two faculty in English receive endowed chairs.
Teaching Awards. April 2007. Recipients of the School of Arts and Sciences 2007 teaching awards have been named.
Endowed Chairs for Five in Social Sciences. April 2007. Five faculty named to endowed chairs.
Two Professors Named to Chairs in Romance Languages. April 2007. Endowed chairs go to Romance languages faculty.
Political Science Professor Wins Innovators Award. March 2007. Political science and communication professor Diana Mutz recognized for public-opinion and survey research.
Anthropology Department's Adriana Petryna Receives New Millennium Book Award. March 2007. Associate professor's book cited for "risky and courageous research among survivors of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster."
Psychology Department's Sara Jaffee Receives Early Scientific Achievement Award. March 2007. Assistant professor awarded for studies of how genes and environment work together in children's development.
Three SAS Professors Named to Endowed Chairs. March 2007. Cristina Bicchieri, Benjamin Nathans and James Primosch appointed to named chairs.
Chairs for Three Classical Studies Professors. March 2007. Jeremy McInerney, C. Brian Rose and Ralph Rosen named to endowed chairs.
Associate Professor Marie Gottschalk Wins Prize for Best Historical Book. February 2007. Associate Professor of Political Science Marie Gottschalk's book, The Prison and the Gallows: the Politics of Mass Incarceration in America, was awarded the 2007 Ellis Hawley prize by the Organization of American Historians.
Political Science's Heiner Schulz Awarded Sloan Fellowship. February 2007. Heiner Schulz, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Industry Studies Fellowship in support of his work on the political economy of banking sector deregulation in emerging markets.
Political Scientist Diana Mutz Awarded Goldsmith Book Prize. February 2007. Mutz's book, Hearing the Other Side, was recognized with the Goldsmith Prize by Harvard University's Shorenstein Center for its contribution to the examination of the intersection between press, politics, and public policy.
Political Scientist Edward Mansfield Receives Award for Book Examining Why Emerging Democracies Go to War. January 2007.
Three Faculty Appointed to Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Chairs. December 2006.
Best Book on Pennsylvania History September 2006. History professor wins second prize for book on decline of coal mining in Pennsylvania.
Young Scholar Receives Book Award September 2006. Historian's first book honored for "scholarly significance."
Chemistry Professor Receives Chemical Society Award June 2006. Patrick Walsh, a professor of inorganic and organic chemistry at the School of Arts and Sciences is the recipient of the 2006 American Chemical Society Philadelphia Section Award.
SAS Lecturer Named Fellow of the Inter-American Photochemical Society. June 2006. Dr. Celia Mallory, a senior lecturer in the Chemistry Department at Penn, has been named a Fellow of the Inter-American Photochemical Society.
Chemisty's Eric Meggers Receives Dreyfus Award. May 2006. Dr. Eric Meggers, assistant professor of chemistry, has been selected to receive the 2006 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.
Two Sloan Fellows. April 2006. Assistant professors recognized for "outstanding promise."
Professor Honored for Contributions to Arabic Literature. April 2006. A professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations was one of 10 scholars of Arabic literature to be honored by the Egyptian government.
Three SAS Faculty Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences. April 2006. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has announced the election of three School of Arts and Sciences faculty among its new fellows.
Two Sociologists Honored. April 2006. At the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, sociologists Hans-Peter Kohler and Samuel Preston were presented with awards for achievements in the field of population.
The New African American Inequality. April 2006. History professor Michael Katz and sociology doctoral student Jamie Fader along with Mark Stern, a professor in the School of Social Policy & Practice, have been selected by the Organization of American Historians to receive the 2006 Binkley-Stephenson Award.
Three Guggenheim Fellows. April 2006. Three faculty members from the School of Arts and Sciences, David Christianson, Steven Feierman and Barbara Fuchs, are among 187 artists, scholars and scientists awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. SAS faculty chosen from among 3,000 candidates.
Teaching Awards. April 2006. Dr. Rebecca W. Bushnell, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, and Dr. Dennis DeTurck, dean of the College, announce the recipients of the School's 2006 teaching awards.
Best-Book Award from the Organization of American Historians. March 2006. History professor Walter Licht, along with co-author Thomas Dublin, have received the Merle Curti Prize for their book, The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century.
Asian-American Specialist Wins Third Major Honor for Study of Race and Transnationalism. March 2006. Eiichiro Azuma, assistant professor of history and Asian American studies, awarded the 2005 Theodore Saloutos Prize by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society for his recent book, Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism.
Criminology Professor Cited for Contributions to Experimental Criminology. February 2006. Criminology professor Lawrence Sherman named winner of the 2006 Joan McCord Award.
Professor of Sociology to Receive Honorary Degree. December 2005. Dr. Elijah Anderson has been chosen to receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Science at Northwestern University.
Assistant Professor Wins Asian Book Prize. December 2005. Eiichiro Azuma received the 2004-05 Hiroshi Shimizu Award for his recent book
Ann Matter appointed the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Religious Studies. November 22, 2005. Dr. E. Ann Matter, professor and chair of the department of religious studies, has been appointed the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Religious Studies.
History Professor Alan Charles Kors Wins 2005 National Humanities Medal. November 2005. History professor Alan Charles Kors is among 12 recipients of the 2005 National Humanities Medal.
Larry Sneddon: Kahn Endowed Term Professor. October 4, 2005. SAS Dean Rebecca W. Bushnell announced that Dr. Larry G. Sneddon has been named the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor of Chemistry in SAS.
Chemistry Professor Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences. July 2005. Madeleine Joullié named one of 213 leaders in scholarship, business, the arts, and public affairs.
2007 Dean's Scholars Named. March 2007. Undergraduates and graduate students to be honored at 2007 Dean's Forum.
College Senior Receives Gates Cambridge Scholarship. February 2007. Alix Rogers, a College senior with a double major in Health and Societies and Philosophy, is one of 98 scholars selected from 32 countries to receive this year's Gates Cambridge Scholarship.
Romance Languages Grad Student Receives French Language Fellowship. February 2007. Thomas Daniels received the 2007 Walter J. Jensen Fellowship for French Language, which will support his doctoral research in Paris.
Penn Humanties Forum Declares Essay Winners. June 2006. Tal Raviv (Eng. '09), Gena Katz (C '06) and Dvorit Mausner (C '07) receive top honors for the yearly essay contest which this year had "If Ben Had Had His Way" as its theme in honor of the celebration of the 300th birthday of Penn's founder.
Three SAS Doctoral Students Awarded Spencer Dissertation Fellowships. June 2006. Leah Gordon, Azra Hromadzic and Elizabeth Vaquera, all doctoral students at the School of Arts and Sciences, have been awarded prestigious Spencer Dissertation Fellowships.
College Senior Wins Gates Cambridge Scholarship. April 2006. College Senior Lauren Zeitels will begin graduate studies this fall at the University of Cambridge thanks to a scholarship from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Math students named NSF fellows. February 2006. Two graduate students awarded postdoctoral fellowships by the National Science Foundation.
Two from Penn Win Marshall, Rhodes Scholarships. November 2005. Two University of Pennsylvania students have won two of the country's most prestigious scholarships
Past Student Awards & Prizes