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Kahn Chair in the Natural Sciences: Marsha Lester

Marsh Lester

SAS Dean Samuel H. Preston has announced that Professor of Chemistry, Marsha I. Lester has been appointed to the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Chair in the Natural Sciences.

Dr. Lester joined the Penn faculty in 1982 after a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at Bell Labs. She received her B.A. from Rutgers University in 1976 and Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1981. A physical chemist, her current research focuses on fundamental aspects of the interactions and reactions between key atmospheric species, in particular involving the hydroxyl radical. She has been selected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society and has served on the editorial boards of Chemical Physics Letters, Molecular Physics, and the Journal of Physical Chemistry.

Her honors include a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Miller Visiting Research Professorship at Berkeley, the Broida Prize of the International Symposium on Free Radicals, a National Science Foundation Career Advancement Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. She has recently been chair of the Division of Laser Science of the American Physical Society, and has also served on various advisory committees of the Department of Energy, the National Research Council, and the National Science Foundation.

This chair was created in 1998 through the bequest of Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn. Mr. Kahn was a 1925 graduate of the Wharton School who had a highly successful career in the oil and natural gas industry. Mrs. Kahn was a Smith College graduate who worked for Newsweek magazine and owned an interior design firm. The Kahns were remarkable philanthropists who gave generously to Penn, most significantly to Van Pelt Library, the Modern Languages College House, and in support of faculty in SAS. Mr. Kahn died in 1984, and Mrs. Kahn remained very close to Penn until her death in 1995.

 


  Almanac, Vol. 49, No. 28, April 8, 2003

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