2007 - 2008 News Releases
Fox Leadership Program Fellow Jane Eisner Named Editor-in-Chief of the Forward. July 2008. Eisner is the first woman to serve in this position at the longstanding Jewish newsweekly.
Chemistry Chair Marsha I. Lester Named Editor of The Journal of Chemical Physics. July 2008. The Journal is published by the American Institute of Physics.
Samuel Preston Inducted as Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. May 2008. Preston is Frederick J. Warren Professor of Demo graphy and former SAS dean.
David Ruderman Receives Charles Ludwig Distinguished Teaching Award. May 2008. Ruderman is the Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History.
Carolyn Abbate Joins SAS Faculty as Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Music. May 2008. Abbate ranks among the world's foremost musicologists.
Five SAS Faculty Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences. May 2008. The Academy recognizes leaders in the sciences, arts and humanities, business, public affairs and the nonprofit sec tor.
Richard Johnston Wins V.O. Key Award from the Southern Political Science Association. April 2008. The award recognizes Johnston's book, The End of Southern Exceptionalism, as the best book on Southern politics.
History Professor Alan Charles Kors Awarded 2008 Bradley Prize. April 2008. The citation for the Bradley Prize recognizes Kors as both a scholar of European inte llectual history and a defender of free speech.
SAS Teaching Awards. April 2008. Recipients of the School of Arts and Sciences 2008 teaching awards have been named.
College Announces 2008 Graduation Speakers. April 2008. The College of Arts and Sciences has announced that alumnus Marc Platt and College senior Maya Ondalikoglu will be the speakers for thi s year's graduation ceremony.
College Sophomore Wins Goldwater Scholarship. April 2008. Phillip Benedetti was awarded the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for his research in chem istry and biochemistry.
Art History's Michael Leja Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship. April 2008. As a Guggenheim Fellow, Leja will work on research about the flood of pictures in the mid-nineteenth century.
Music's Anna Weesner and Andrew McPherson Win American Academy of Arts and Letters Awards. April 2008. Associate professor Weesner's award honors outstanding artistic achievement, and grad uate student McPherson received a Charles Ives Scholarship.
Ralph Rosen Appointed SAS Associate Dean for Graduate Studies. April 2008. Rosen will oversee the School's doctoral programs and will also have responsibility for several SAS centers.
Donald F. Kettl Receives John Gaus Award and Lectureship. April 2008. The Gaus Award honors lifetime achievement in political science and public administration scholarship.
Richard M. Schultz Appointed SAS Associate Dean for the Natural Sciences. March 2008. Schultz is a developmental biologist whose research focuses on mammalian reproduction.
Two College Juniors Win Truman Scholarships. March 2008. Daniel Lee Tavana and Thomas Hayling Price were selected on the basis of leadership potential, intellect ual ability and likelihood of "making a difference."
Robin M. Hochstrasser Elected to the Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh. March 2008. The Donner Professor of Physical Sciences was recogn ized for being a "pioneer in the innovative use of lasers."
Tobias Baumgart and Joachim Krieger Awarded Sloan Research Fellowships. March 2008. Awarded to faculty members at an early stage of their careers, Sloan Fellowsh ips recognize highly promising individuals across the sciences.
Robert Kurzban Gets Award for Early Career Achievements. March 2008. Assistant professor of psychology named inaugural winner of the Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribu tion to Human Behavior and Evolution.
Organizational Dynamics Teaching Faculty Member Gets Fulbright. March 2008. John Pourdehnad awarded Fulbright Senior Specialists grant.
Penn Selects SmithGroup as Architect for Neural and Behavioral Sciences Building. February 2008. The new science facility will integrate psychology, biology and behavioral sciences under one roof for teaching and research.
College Senior Joshua Cook Awarded 2008 Gates Cambridge Scholarship. February 2008. Cook, a biology major, plans to pursue an MPhil in clinical biochemi stry at Cambridge.
Historian Gets Fulbright. January 2008. Professor Bruce Kuklick awarded Fulbright Scholar grant.
Sarah Tishkoff Named Penn's Newest PIK Professor. January 2008.
Classics Scholar Wins Goodwin Award. January 2008. Professor Peter Struck recognized for outstanding classical scholarship by the American Philological Association.
Charles Bernstein Wins Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. January 2008. Bernstein, Donald T. Regan Professor of English, has published large-scale collecti ons of poetry and essays as well as pamphlets, libretti, translations and collaborations.
Huntsman Program Senior Joyce Meng Named Rhodes Scholar. November 2007. Meng is among 32 college students from across the nation who were selected for the prestigious scholarship.
Ruth Schwartz Cowan Awarded the John Desmond Bernal Prize by the Society for Social Studies of Science. November 2007. Cowan, Janice and Julian Bers Professor and Chair of the Department of History and Sociology of Science, is a historian of science, technology and medicine.
Donald F. Kettl Awarded 2007 Stockberger Achievement Award by the International Public Management Association for Human Resources. November 2007. Award recognizes those who have made outstanding contributions toward the improvement of human resource management at any level of government.
Chemistry Faculty Members Jeffrey Bode, William F. DeGrado and Michael L. Klein Win American Chemical Society Awards. November 2007. The ACS is the world's largest scientific society and is the premier professional organization for chemists, chemical engineers and related professions around the globe.
Walter Annenberg Professor of History: Walter Licht. November 2007. Licht, who is currently chair of the history department, is an expert on the history of work and labor markets, and he teaches courses in American economic and labor history.
South Asia Center's Haimanti Banerjee Receives Department of Education Grant. October 2007. Bengali instructor is given $126,000 for instructional materials.
Aditya Behl Recieves Literature Fellowship for Translation. October 2007. NEA fellowship is one of 14 grants for literary translation.
Biology Professor Leads Team to Study Effects of Climate Change in Mongolia. October 2007. National Science Foundation gives $2.5 million to study ecological, evolutionary and societal consequences over five years.
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education Ranks Professor Adolph Reed as Most Cited Black Political Scientist. September 2007. JBHE's rankings are based on Thomson Scientific data gleaned from more than 30 million citations in more than 1.3 million published papers.
Randall D. Kamien Named Inaugural Vicki and William Abrams Professor in the Natural Sciences. September 2007. Kamien, a professor of physics and astronomy, specializes in researching soft condensed matter.
School Welcomes New Faculty Members. September 2007. New hires join the faculty at the junior and senior levels across the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities.
Remembering New Orleans. September 2007. Two years after Hurricane Katrina, students from the Robert A. Fox Leadership Program continue to help New Orleans recover.
Irma T. Elo Appointed Chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Center for Health Statistics. August 2007. As the nation's principal health statistics agency, NCHS compiles statistical information to guide actions and policies to improve public health.
Professors Daniel H. Janzen, Victor H. Mair and Peter Stallybrass Elected to American Philosophical Society. August 2007. Election to the APS, the nation's first learned society, recognizes extraordinary accomplishments in all fields.