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Patricia
Williams
Term Chair: Richard Schultz
Dr.
Richard Schultz has been appointed to the Patricia Williams Term
Chair in Biology, SAS Dean Samuel H. Preston announced. Dr. Schultz
received his B.A. from Brandeis University in 1971 and his Ph.D.
from Harvard University in 1975. His research focuses on egg activation
and gene expression in mouse embryos. Before coming to Penn in 1978,
he was a postdoctoral fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation at Harvard
Medical School.
He
is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
and the recipient of the Jan Purkinje Medal of the Czech Academy
of Sciences. He has served as a member of the developmental biology
study section at the National Science Foundation and the reproductive
biology study section at the National Institutes of Health. He is
also the recipient of several grants from the National Institutes
of Health and an NIH MERIT Award. He is a member of the editorial
boards of BioEssays, Biology of Reproduction, and
Developmental Biology and is a director of the Society for
the Study of Reproduction. In addition to his scholarly activities,
he has served as a member of the biology department's executive
committee and chairman of the biology graduate group.
The
Patricia Williams Term Chair in Biology was established by Paul
C. Williams and is named in honor of his mother. A 1967 graduate
of the Wharton School, Mr. Williams is a University trustee and
a member of the SAS Board of Overseers. Mr. Williams is vice president
and manager of Nuveen Investments, a financial services firm in
Chicago.
Almanac, Vol. 48, No. 15, December 11, 2001
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