2006 - 2007 News Releases
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.
2007-2008 DCC Fellows and Grant Recipients Chosen. June 2007. The Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism has named its first award recipients.
Political Science Professor Named to Endowed Chair. May 2007. Devesh Kapur receives Madan Lal Sobti 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.
College Announces 2007 Graduation Speakers. April 2007. Nobel laureate Michael Brown and senior Thomas Flahive to speak graduation ceremony.
SAS Alumni Weekend Events. April 2007. The intellectual excitement of your Penn years is still to be found on campus over Alumni Weekend.
Mellon Foundation Makes $1.75 M Grant for Postdoctoral Fellowships. April 2007. Mellon extends earlier program to create opportunities for young humanities scholars.
Pew Charitable Trusts Make Grant of $2 M for Graduate Fellowships. April 2007. Four-year grant supports graduate students in economics, English, history, political science and sociology.
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.
2007 Dean's Scholars Named. March 2007. Undergraduates and graduate students to be honored at 2007 Dean's Forum.
Political Science Professor Wins Innovators Award. March 2007. Political science and communication professor Diana Mutz recognized for public-opinion and survey research.
Kids Judge!. March 2007. Pupils from nearby elementary schools came to Penn's Biomedical Research Building to pass judgment on science projects put together by Penn students.
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.
Debunking Myths on the Saudi Oil Frontier. March 2007. Book by Robert Vitalis looks at myths surrounding U.S. “special relationship” with Saudi Arabia.
Eiichiro Azuma Receives Asian American Studies Book Award. March 2007. Between Two Empires garners third award.
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.
Political Science Professor's Study of Incarceration Wins Book Prize. 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.
Mellon Foundation Endows SAS Program on Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism. December 2006.
Philippe Bourgois Named Newest PIK Professor at Penn. January 24, 2007. Philippe Bourgois, a world renowned medical anthropologist from the University of California, San Francisco, has been named the fifth Penn Integrates Knowledge professor at the University of Pennsylvania.Adrian Raine Is Named Fourth PIK Professor at Penn. January 12, 2007. Adrian Raine has been named the newest Penn Integrates Knowledge professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
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."
School Welcomes 40 New Faculty Members. September 2006. Responding to a key component of its strategic plan, the School of Arts and Sciences has appointed 40 scholars to its standing faculty in 2006-2007.