Recent News
2012 College Graduation Ceremony. May 2012. Watch the full ceremony or just the featured speakers, Jennifer Dailey, C’12, and Paul Hendrickson, author and Senior Lecturer, Department of English.
Prestigious Prizes Garnered by Fourteen College Students, Recent Graduates. May 2012. Five graduating seniors, two juniors, and seven recent alumni of the College of Arts and Sciences have won prestigious awards including Fulbright scholarships and National Science Foundation fellowships.
Nancy Bonini Elected to the National Academy of Sciences. May 2012. Nancy Bonini, Lucille B. Williams Professor of Biology, was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences, an honor considered to be one of the highest a United States scientist or engineer can receive.
SAS Graduation Ceremonies Information. May 2012. The University of Pennsylvania’s 256th Commencement will be held on Monday, May 14, 2012, in Franklin Field, located at 33rd and South Streets.
Robert M. Seyfarth and George J. Mailath elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. April 2012. Robert M. Seyfarth, Professor of Psychology and George J. Mailath, the Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences in the Department of Economics, have been elected to the 2012 class of members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Dorothy Roberts Named PIK Professor. April 2012. Dorothy Roberts, an acclaimed scholar of race, has been appointed the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology, effective July 1.
College Announces 2012 Graduation Speakers. April 2012. Paul Hendrickson will be the guest speaker at this year’s graduation ceremony for the University of Pennsylvania College of Arts and Sciences.
Penn Bioethicist Jonathan Moreno Appointed to UNESCO International Bioethics Committee. April 2012. The University of Pennsylvania’s Jonathan Moreno has been invited to join the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s International Bioethics Committee.
Kenneth Burdett Appointed the James Joo-Jin Kim Professor of Economics. March 2012. Kenneth Burdett has been appointed the James Joo-Jin Kim Professor of Economics in the School of Arts and Sciences.
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet Appointed the Robert I. Williams Term Professor of History. March 2012. Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet has been appointed to the Robert I. Williams Term Chair in History in the School of Arts and Sciences.
Bhuvnesh Jain Appointed Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Natural Sciences. March 2012. Bhuvnesh Jain has been appointed the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Natural Sciences in the School of Arts and Sciences.
Heather Love Appointed the R. Jean Brownlee Term Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences. March 2012. Heather Love has been appointed to the R. Jean Brownlee Term Chair in the School of Arts and Sciences.
Mark Liberman Named the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Linguistics. March 2012. Mark Liberman has been appointed the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Linguistics in the School of Arts and Sciences.
Ponzy Lu Named the Roy and Diana Vagelos Director of the Vagelos Scholars Program in the Molecular Life Sciences. March 2012. Ponzy Lu has been appointed the Roy and Diana Vagelos Director of the Vagelos Scholars Program in the Molecular Life Sciences in the School of Arts and Sciences.
SAS to Adopt Google for Student Email. February 2012. In response to student feedback, the School of Arts and Sciences is preparing to launch Google Apps for Education as its new student email solution.
Cristina Bicchieri Appointed Sascha Jane Patterson Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics. February 2012. Cristina Bicchieri has been appointed the Sascha Jane Patterson Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics in the School of Arts and Sciences.
Daniel H. Janzen Wins 2011 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award. February 2012. Daniel H. Janzen, Thomas G. and Louise E. DiMaura Term Chair in Conservation Biology, has been awarded the 2011 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Ecology and Conservation Biology category for his contributions to the study of tropical ecology and the conservation of tropical ecosystems.
Paul Hendrickson Nominated by National Book Critics Circle. January 2012. Paul Hendrickson, senior lecturer in the Department of English, has been nominated for a National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) book award for the 2011 publishing year.
Eugene Narmour Honored With Society of Music Perception and Cognition Achievement Award. January 2012. Professor of Music Eugene Narmour was honored with the Society of Music Perception and Cognition Achievement (SMPC) Award this past summer.
Penn Launches Center for the Study of Contemporary China. January 2012. University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann, Provost Vincent Price and Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences Rebecca Bushnell are pleased to announce the launch of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China.
Jewish Book Council Honors Talya Fishman with the Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award. January 2012. Talya Fishman, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, has been awarded the Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award by the Jewish Book Council.
College Dean, Professor and Former Students Win Chauvenet Prize. January 2012. College Dean Dennis DeTurck, mathematics professor Herman Gluck, and alumni Daniel Pomerleano, C’06, and Shea Vela-Vick, GR’09, have been selected by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) as the winners of the 2012 Chauvenet Prize.
Eight College Students Named All-Ivy Honors for Fall 2011. January 2012. Eight students from the College of Arts and Sciences were named among the Ivy League’s list of athletes selected for academic All-Ivy performers for the fall of 2011.
Four SAS Faculty Named American Physical Society Fellows. December 2011. The American Physical Society (APS) named Mark Devlin, Alan T. Charlie Johnson, Jr. and Josh Klein from the Department of Physics and Astronomy and Feng Gai from the Department of Chemistry among their 2012 fellows.
College Senior, Alumnus Named Marshall Scholars. December 2011. Corey Metzman, C’12, W’12, and Michael Poll, C’09, have been awarded Marshall Scholarships for graduate study in the United Kingdom.
Barbara Savage Honored with Prestigious Grawemeyer Award. December 2011. Barbara D. Savage, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History in the School of Arts and Sciences, has won the 2012 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion for her book, Your Spirits Walk Beside Us: The Politics of Black Religion.
Joseph Subotnik Awarded Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. November 2011. The Computers in Chemistry (COMP) program division of the American Chemical Society named Joseph Subotnik an HP Outstanding Junior Faculty member for spring 2012.
Michael Horowitz Honored with Best Book Award by ISSS. November 2011. Horowitz, Associate Professor of Political Science, received the award for his book, The Diffusion of Military Power: Causes and Consequences for International Politics.
Stephanie McCurry Named Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner. October 2011. McCurry’s book Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South received the award, which was established in 1999 to stimulate scholarship in the field of slavery and abolition.
SAS Alumni and Faculty Elected as National Academy of Public Administration Fellows. October 2011. John J. Dilulio Jr., the Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society and Professor of Political Science, and Fels Institute of Government graduates Matthew D. Gallagher and Scott B. Quehl have been elected as fellows to the National Academy of Public Administration.
Claudia R. Valeggia Honored With Presidential Early Career Award. October 2011. Valeggia studies the interplay between human reproductive biology and culture.
$1.5 Million Grant to Predict Sea-Level Rise and Flooding from Hurricane. September 2011. The research will be led by Ben Horton, Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Science.
Gift from Roy and Diana Vagelos to Create New Undergraduate Program in Energy Research. September 2011. The Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research is an innovative, dual-degree undergraduate program to be offered by the School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
SAS Welcomes New Faculty Members. September 2011. The new hires join the standing faculty at junior and senior levels across the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities.
Donald and Judith Voet selected as recipients of the 2012 ASBMB Award for Exemplary Contributions to Education. August 2011. The Voets will present a plenary symposium lecture at the 2012 ASBMB Annual meeting in San Diego in late April.
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