Social Sciences News Archive
Political Scientist Honored for Work in Intergovernmental Management. March 2005. The American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) has recognized political science professor Donald F. Kettl with its Donald C. Stone Award.
Foundation Recognizes Amyx for Book on Japanese Finance. February 2005. Japan’s Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Foundation has given its 21st annual Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Award to Assistant Professor of Political Science Jennifer Amyx.
Penn Museum Curator Named Honorary Fellow of Indian Archaeological Society. December 2004. Gregory L. Possehl received the decoration for his lifelong contribution to India archaeology, especially the study of the enigmatic Harappan Civilization.
George Walker Endowed Term Professor of History: Alan Kors. December 7, 2004. Dr. Alan Charles Kors, professor of history, has been named the inaugural George H. Walker Endowed Term Professor of History, SAS Dean Samuel H. Preston has announced.
Falleti Honored for Work in Latin American Studies. November 2004. Assistant professor of political science Tulia Falleti has received the Best Paper Prize of the Latin American Studies Association.
Penn Chemist Alan G. MacDiarmid Honored with China's Friendship Award. September 29, 2004. Chemistry professor and Nobel laureate Alan G. MacDiarmid received the Friendship Award from Chinese Vice-Premier Hui Liangyu at a ceremony in Beijing in September.
Mutz’s Book Recognized as Best in Political Communications. September 2004. Professor Diana Mutz has received the American Political Science Association’s 2004 Doris Graber Outstanding Book Award for the best book on political communications in the last 10 years.
Political Science Scholar Heralded For Best Book. September 2004. Associate professor of political science Nancy Hirschmann has received the American Political Science Association’s 2004 Victoria Schuck Award for Best Book on Women and Politics.
Sociology Professor Receives $5.2 Million Grant for Research on Young Adulthood. August 06, 2004. Frank Furstenberg, Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology, has received a $5.2 million grant from The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for research examining the changing nature of early adulthood and the new challenges facing people aged 18 to 34.
Political Science Professor Recognized for Article’s Lasting Impact. June 22, 2004. The American Political Science Association has selected Professor Rogers Smith to receive its annual award for a book or article that has made a lasting impression on the field of law and courts.
Economics Professor Receives Research Grant for Lifetime Achievement in the Sciences. June 7, 2004. Professor Francis X. Diebold has received a Humboldt Research Award from Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in recognition of lifetime achievement in the sciences.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Welcomes Two SAS Professors. May 7, 2004. Professors Robert Sharer and Rogers Smith are two of 178 fellows recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Penn Hosts International Conference on History of Unethical Medical Research in Japan, Germany and U.S. May 3, 2004. A conference, co-hosted by the Center for East Asian Studies and the Center for Bioethics brought together experts from Japan, Germany, and the United States to address infamous work in medicine past, including Japanese vivisection of human "logs" more than 50 years ago, the experiments of Nazi doctors in Europe, and the U.S. Public Health Service Tuskegee syphilis experiments.
Public-Safety Gains Endangered by Decreased Federal Funding of Crime Research. April 19, 2004. Gains in public safety from dramatic drops in crime over the last decade are at risk because of cuts in federal support for crime-related research, according to Greenfield Professor Lawrence W. Sherman, director of the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology and president of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Frank
Furstenberg Awarded Fulbright to Uruguay.
April 15, 2004. Frank Furstenberg, Zellerbach Family Professor of
Sociology, has received a Fulbright Senior Specialists grant in sociology to
work in Uruguay.
Economics Day at Penn to Focus on U.S. Domestic and Foreign Deficits. April 13, 2004. The 24th annual Economics Day at Penn will feature three of the country's leading economists in a discussion about U.S domestic and foreign deficits. Lawrence Klein, professor emeritus of economics at Penn, will moderate the discussion.
HSS Professor Lindee, Five Others Receive Guggenheims. April 7, 2004. Six faculty members of the School of Arts and Sciences have received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
CASI Celebrates. The School’s increasingly global nature has been reinforced by the completion of a major fund-raising campaign for the Center for the Advanced Study of India.
Criminology
Center to Test UK Restorative Justice Program. March
25, 2004. The British goverment has awarded the
Jerry Lee Center of Government
$1.6 million to lead a project testing the United Kingdom's
practice of diverting serious offenders from prosecution
to "justice without court."
Soldo Named AAAS Fellow. March 23, 2004. Sociology professor Beth Soldo, a renowned expert in social gerontology, has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Possehl Wins Prize for Book on Indus Civilization. March 23, 2004. Professor of anthropology Gregory Possehl has received the 2003 Outstanding Academic Book Award from Choice magazine for Indus Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective.
Former Justice Official to Direct Master’s Program in Criminology. February 10, 2004. Laurie Robinson, who has worked for the U.S. Department of Justice and the American Bar Association, will lead the new master’s program in criminology, the Ivy League’s only master of science degree in the field.
Sociologist Honored for Work to Improve Nursing Care. February 5, 2004. Dr. Linda H. Aiken, a sociology professor and the Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor at Penn Nursing, has received the 2003 Ernest A. Codman Award for her work in outcomes measurement in the nursing field. The prize is presented annually by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
Jesse Jackson, Michael Eric Dyson Examine Meaning of King’s Legacy. January 16, 2004. At a symposium sponsored by the Africana Studies Center, activist Jesse Jackson and Avalon Professor of the Humanities Michael Eric Dyson challenged current conceptions of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Transition to Adulthood Delayed, Marriage and Family Postponed. January 12, 2004. A new report from sociology's Frank Furstenberg reports that becoming an adult takes longer today than in previous decades.
Generation Gap Explains Decline in Feminist Ranks. December 16, 2003. Despite gains brought about by the women's movement, young adults are far less likely than their middle-aged counterparts to call themselves feminists, according to a study conducted in part by the University of Pennsylvania.
Fels Institute, WPHT Radio Partner in Poll Watching Project, Election Coverage of Philadelphia Mayor's Race. October 30, 2003.
Ivy League First: Criminology Department at Penn. June 20, 2003. The University has become the first Ivy League institution to establish a criminology department.
Adjunct professor to lead international body of clinical and applied sociologists. May 21, 2003 Adjunct Professor of Sociology Ross Koppel has been named president of the Sociological Practice Association.
Two SAS professors named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences. May 7, 2003. Professors David Cass and Michael Klein have been named fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Membership honors intellectual achievement, leadership, and creativity.
Church-State Separation Not Breached When Faith-Based Groups Work with Government. March 6, 2003. The Center for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society has released a new study that finds that faith-based organizations work closely with government agencies without raising First Amendment concerns.
“Authentic Happiness” Named Best Psychology Book of 2002 March 5, 2003
New Penn/Gallup Poll Measures “Spiritual State of the Union.” March 4, 2003. Initial findings from the Center for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society/Gallup Spiritual State of the Union poll indicate that the spiritual state of the union is strong.
New Study Finds Women in Philadelphia Region Still Face Significant Inequality at Work and at Home. January 16, 2003
When Self-Image Takes a Blow, Many Turn to Television as a Distraction January 8, 2003. Psychology doctoral student Sophia Moskalenko and Steven Heine of the University of British Columbia present the results of a study on television viewing habits that suggests that people tune in to television as a means of reducing awareness of “how we are falling short of our own standards.”
Penn Sociologist Receives Fulbright to Uruguay. December 19, 2002
Penn Presidential Expert Analyzes New Dynamic Between White House and Congress Since Mid-Term Elections. November 19, 2002
Penn Researchers Document Large-Scale Voter Registration Problem: More Voters Registered than Eligible to Vote. October 30, 2002
Penn Plays Major Role in $300,000 USDA Grant Program to Help Low-Income Philadelphians Get Food Stamps October 3, 2002
New
Center Opens, Latest Step in Expansion of Africana Studies
at Penn.
September 20, 2002
Penn Museum Archaeologists Uncover 3,700-Year-Old 'Magical' Birth Brick Just Outside Abydos, Egypt. July 25, 2002
Penn
Center for Africana Studies Announces 30th Anniversary
Program Series.
October 23, 2002
Faith-Based Welfare-to-Work Programs Rely Less on Government Funding Than Secular Programs. June 10, 200
Michael Eric Dyson Named to Faculty at Penn May 13, 2002
Short Teenage Boys Earn Less Than Tall Teenage Boys When They Each Grow Up. April 18, 2002
British Judge Approves Penn Experiment in Sentencing. March 19, 2002
US Crackdown on Illegal Immigration not Working. February 21, 2002