SENATE From the Senate Office
Under the Faculty Senate Rules, formal notification to members may
be accomplished by publication in Almanac. The following is published
under that rule.
| TO: |
Members of the Faculty Senate |
| FROM: |
Larry Gross, Chair |
| SUBJECT: |
Senate Nominations 2001-2001 |
1. In accordance with the Faculty Senate Rules, official notice
is given of the Senate Nominating Committee's slate of nominees for the
incoming Senate Officers. The nominees, all of whom have indicated their
willingness to serve, are:
Chair-elect: Mitchell Marcus (prof computer & info sci)
Secretary-elect: Louis A.Thomas (assoc prof management)
At-large Members of the Senate Executive Committee
(to serve a 3-year term beginning May, 2001):
- Sydney M. Evans (assoc prof radiology/vet)
- Peter J. Kuriloff (prof education)
- Martin Pring (assoc prof physiology/med)
- Eileen Sullivan-Marx (asst prof nursing)
At-large Member of the Senate Executive Committee
(to serve a 1-year term beginning May, 2001):
- Gerald J. Porter (prof mathematics)
Two Assistant Professor Members of the Senate Executive Committee
(to serve a 2-year term beginning May, 2001):
- Eileen V. Lake (asst prof nursing)
- Jerome Maddox (asst prof political science)
Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility
(to serve a 3-year term beginning May, 2001):
- Rosalyn Eisenberg (prof pathobiology/vet)
- Seth Kreimer (prof law)
- Eric W. Orts (prof legal studies)
Senate Committee on Conduct
(to serve a 2-year term beginning May, 2001):
- Charles Bosk (prof sociology)
- Charles W. Mooney, Jr. (prof law)
- David M. Stern (prof Asian & Middle Eastern st)
Senate Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty
(to serve a 3-year term beginning May, 2001):
- Eric T. Bradlow (assoc prof marketing)
- Richard E. Kihlstrom (prof finance)
2. Again in accord with the Senate Rules you are invited to submit
"additional nominations, which shall be accomplished via petitions
containing at least twenty-five valid names and the signed approval of the
candidate. All such petitions must be received no later than fourteen days
subsequent to the circulation of the nominees of the Nominating Committee.
Nominations will automatically be closed fourteen days after circulation
of the slate of the Nominating Committee." Pursuant to this provision,
petitions must be received by mail at the Faculty Senate, Box 12 College
Hall/6303, or by hand at the Faculty Senate Office, 109 Duhring Wing by
5 p.m., Tuesday, April 17, 2001.
3. Under the same provision of the Senate Rules, if no additional
nominations are received, the slate nominated by the Nominating Committee
will be declared elected. Should additional nominations be received, an
election will thereafter be held by mail ballot. |
 William
Smith Term Professor: Dr. Kamien
Dr. Randall Kamien, associate professor of physics and astronomy, has
been named the William Smith Term Professor in SAS. He came to Penn in 1995
from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He took his B.S. and
M.S. at Caltech and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Dr. Kamien's research
interests center on problems in liquid crystals, biologically inspired physics
and soft materials.
After receiving a Career Award from the NSF in 1998, Dr. Kamien became
a fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1999. He is an associate editor
of Physical Review E and the author of many articles in peer reviewed
publications.
Named in honor of the first provost of the University of Pennsylvania,
the William Smith Term Chair has been established with a generous gift from
Martin Lipton, Esq. A 1952 graduate of the Wharton School, Mr. Lipton is
a senior partner and director of the New York law firm of Wachtell, Lipton,
Rosen & Katz. He is an active philanthropist and volunteer who has supported
education and the arts for many years and who has served Penn as a University
trustee and an SAS overseer. |
 Merriam
Term Professor of Chemistry: Dr. Winkler
Dr. Jeffrey D. Winkler, professor of chemistry, has been named the Merriam
Term Professor of Chemistry in SAS. He came to Penn in 1991 from the University
of Chicago. He took his A.B. from Harvard and his Ph.D. from Columbia. His
research looks at the total synthesis of naturally occurring compounds with
important biological activity, the development of new reactions and strategies
in organic synthesis, the design and synthesis of small molecules that mimic
the functions of biological catalysts, and the preparation of macromolecular
structures with well-defined structures and functions such as conducting
or non-linear optical properties.
Last year, Dr. Winkler was the recipient of the Arthur C. Cope Scholar
Award from the American Chemical Society. In 1989 Dr. Winkler received the
American Cyanamid Young Faculty Award; in 1988 he received the NIH-NCI Research
Career Development Award; and in 1987 he was selected as a Sloan Research
Fellow. He is the author of many articles and papers. He is a member of
the Cancer Center and a founding member of the Center for Cancer Pharmacology.
The Merriam Term Chair in Chemistry was created from the late John W.
Merriam's generous bequest to Penn. Mr. Merriam received his bachelor's
and master's degrees from the Wharton School. He began his entrepreneurial
career during the Depression when he developed his first apartment complex
and went on to become one of the Delaware Valley's leading real estate developers.
Mr. Merriam was also very active in the Philadelphia arts community and
served on the boards of the Philadelphia College for the Performing Arts
and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. |
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