Honors & Other
Things
Dr.
Diebold: Guggenheim Fellow
Dr.
Francis X. Diebold, the W.P. Carey
Term Professor in Economics in
SAS, and a professor of finance
and statistics in the Wharton
School, has received a fellowship
from the John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation for a study
of financial asset returns and
underlying economic fundamentals.
The Guggenheim Fellowships are
awarded annually for distinguished
scholarly achievement and exceptional
promise for future accomplishment
in the natural sciences, social
sciences, humanities, and creative
arts.
Dr.
Judd: New Directions Fellowship
Dr.
Cristle Collins Judd, associate
professor of music, has received
a New Directions Fellowship from
the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The New Directions Fellowships
Program was inaugurated to encourage
and strengthen scholarship that
crosses disciplinary boundaries
in the humanities. Toward this
goal, it provides opportunities
for award winners to pursue additional
substantive and systematic training
outside their specialities. Dr.
Judd's award is for work
on Medieval Arabic writings about
music as part of a forthcoming
book entitled The Diffusion of
Musical Knowledge: Studies in
the History of Music Theory.
Dr.
Matter: Medieval Fellow
Dr.
E. Ann Matter, R. Jean Brownlee
Term Professor of Religious Studies,
and department chair, has been
named a fellow of the Medieval
Academy of America. Dr. Matter
is a scholar of the history of
the interpretation of the Bible
from the Middle Ages to the present
and of women in early modern Italy.
Founded in 1925 the Medieval Academy
of America is the world's
largest organization devoted to
medieval studies.
Dr.
Wilf: Euler Medal
Dr.
Herbert Wilf, professor of mathematics,
has been awarded the 2002 Euler
Medal from The Institute of Combinatorics
and Its Applications (ICA). Dr.
Wilf has received the award for
distinguished contributions over
a lifetime of combinatorial research
by a member of the ICA who is
still active.
Dr.
Hirschmann: Chemists Gold
Medal
Dr.
Ralph F. Hirschmann, Makineni
Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry,
has been awarded the AIC Gold
Medal by the American Institute
of Chemists and the Chemical Heritage
Foundation. Dr. Hirschmann was
cited being "head of the
effort that developed effective
drugs to treat hypertension, congestive
heart failure, severe infection,
river blindness in developing
countries, and many other illnesses.
His remarkable accomplishments
as a researcher include the synthesis
of the enzyme fibonuclease in
solution, the first example of
protein synthesis." The AIC
Gold Medal recognizes service
to the science of chemistry and
to the profession of chemists
or chemical engineers in the U.S.
Dr.
Culhane: Macy Award
Dr.
Dennis Culhane, professor of social
welfare policy, has received the
John W. Macy Award from the National
Alliance to End Homelessness for
his individual leadership. Dr.
Culhane won the award for his
research on the causes of homelessness
and for his advocacy of possible
solutions. "Dennis is a leading
authority in the battle to end
homelessness. We are fortunate
to have someone of his caliber
on our faculty, and we are thrilled
that his ground-breaking work
has been recognized by a premier
national organization," said
Dean of Social Work Richard Gelles.
The National Alliance to End Homelessness
is committed to the ideal that
no American should have to be
homeless.
Dr.
Naylor: Fagin Researcher
Award
Dr.
Mary D. Naylor, the Marion S.
Ware Professor in Gerontology,
has been selected as the inaugural
recipient of the Claire M. Fagin
Distinguished Researcher Award.
As a leading researcher in gerontological
nursing, Dr. Naylor's works
in the areas of quality of care
and quality of life for vulnerable
older adults and their caregivers
has led to the development of
a profile of elders at risk, demonstrated
the effectiveness of transitional
care for elders, and led to enhanced
decision making regarding home
care referrals. Dr. Naylor will
present the Claire M. Fagin inaugural
lecture on May 16 (See Alumni
Weekend).
Dr.
Scott: 2004 Stoll-Stunkard
Honor
Dr.
Phillip Scott, professor of immunology,
and chair of the department of
pathobiology, has been awarded
the 2004 Stoll-Stunkard Memorial
Lectureship by the American Society
of Parasitologists. The honor
is given to someone whose prominence
in basic research is evident,
and who is not necessarily a parasitologist,
but one whose research might enhance
investigations on parasites, hence
fostering cross-fertilization
of ideas and approaches. Dr. Scott
is recognized for his studies
on the immune response to the
protozoan parasite, Leishmania.
He demonstrated that distinct
T cell subsets are associated
with resistance and susceptibility
to these parasites.
Dr.
Leyden: Investigative Dermatology
Dr.
James J. Leyden, professor emeritus
of dermatology, has been named
an honorary member of the Society
for Investigative Dermatology
(SID). Dr. Leyden has served as
director of the American Academy
of Dermatology and chairman of
the board of the Dermatology Foundation.
Dr.
Leyden's research interests
have included mechanisms of inflammation
in acne, bacterial taxonomy and
bacterial production of body odors.
SID has more that 2000 members
worldwide. The Society publishes
the Journal of Investigative Dermatology
and is dedicated to the advancement
of skin research through information
exchange, education, advocacy
and technology transfer.
Dr.
Kadison: Academies of Sciences
Dr.
Richard V. Kadison, Kuemmerle
Professor of Mathematics, has
been named chair of Mathematics
at the National Academies of Sciences.
Dr. Kadison who has been at Penn
since 1964, is a foreign member
of the Danish Royal, and the Norwegian
Academies of Science and Letters
and the recipient of numerous
awards including Guggenheim and
Sloan Fellowships and a Fulbright
research Fellowship. In 1999 he
received the Steele Prize for
Lifetime Achievement.
Ebert
Memorial Lecture: Dr. Rodin
President
Judith Rodin was named the Ebert
Lecturer and presented the fourth
Robert H. Ebert Memorial Lecture
on Academic Medicine and the Public
Interest at the Council of Deans
Spring Meeting of the Association
of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
earlier this month in Napa, California.
Her topic was A Revisionist View
of the Integrated Academic Health
Center. The Milbank Memorial Fund
and the AAMC established the biennial
Robert H. Ebert Lecture on Academic
Medicine and the Public Interest
after Dr. Ebert's death in
1996 as a memorial to "an
exemplary physician, scientist,
dean, and foundation executive." Ebert
Lecturers are "persons whose
careers and character demonstrate
broad and effective concern for
medicine and the health of the
public."
Distinguished Service Awards
The Distinguished
Service Awards
were
presented at the 10th Anniversary
Conference of the
Center for Community Partnerships
on April
7. The eight honorees
were
cited for being "visionaries,
architects, and stewards of service
learning." Joining President
Judith
Rodin
(center) and Ira Harkavy, associate
vice
president and director of the
Center
for Community Partnerships (far
right)
are Awardees (left to right):
Martin
Meyerson,
President Emeritus; Liz Hollander,
executive
director of Campus Compact; Jettie
Newkirk, chair,
CCP Community
Advisory
Board; Harris Wofford, former U.S.
Senator and recent
CEO of
the Corporation
for National and Community Service;
Marie Bogle,WEPIC
consultant
and member
of the National Advisory Board of the
WEPIC Replication
Project;
Sheldon
Hackney, professor of history and former
Penn president;
Richard
M. Horowitz,
of R.A.F. Industries, Inc, and chairman
of the Advisory Board
CCP.
Not shown:
Thomas Ehrlich, senior scholar,
The Carnegie
Foundation and former Penn provost.
Three Goldwater Scholars
Three Penn undergraduates
have been named Goldwater Scholars.
They are:
Jonathan Bronson C'06; Annemarie
Fernandes, C'06 and Ramez
Haddadin,
SEAS'05. The Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education
Program was established in 1986 by Congress to honor former U.S. Senator
Barry Goldwater.
Caterfino Scholar: Ms. Tabolt
Ms.
Nicole
Tabolt, C '06,
has been selected as the
winner of the first Douglas
W. Caterfino Endowed Scholarship
of Young Writers by Kelly
Writers House. "Nicole
is a poet of real emerging
talent. At Penn she has become
involved with programs at
the Kelly Writers House,
has taken (and excelled in)
the introductory creative
writing workshop and intends
to concentrate in Creative
Writing," said
Dr. Al Filreis, Kelly Professor
of English and
director of the Center for
Program in Contemporary Writing.
Ms. Tabolt will receive the
award for the next three
years. The Caterfino Scholarship
Fund for Young Writers was
created by Elissa Shaw Caterfino
(C '83) in
memory of Douglas W. Caterfino (W
'83).
Honor
Dental Society
The Omicron Kappa Upsilon (OKU)
Honor Dental Society recently inducted 16
new members: Blendi Babameto, Michele Backhaus,
Meenakshi Balakrishnan, Daniel Chen,
Evan Chugerman, David Galler, Iris Hirschfeld, Haris Lakisic,
Timothy Leung, Rene Lukosiewicz, Frank Meng,
Sujatha Nadimpalli, Christopher Overcash,
Cyrus
Ramsey, Mairelys Rodriguez, and Babak Zargar.
The Society also
inducted Dr. Eliott Hersh, associate
professor of oral
surgery & pharmacology,
and awarded Dr. Phoebe Leboy, professor
of biochemistry in the Department of Biochemistry,
an honorary induction.
In addition,
Daniel Chen (Den'03) received
the 2002 Denstply Award for participating
in the 2002 ADA/Denstply Student Clinician
Competition. concentrate
in Creative Writing," said Dr. Al Filreis, Kelly
Professor of English and director of the
Center for Program in Contemporary Writing.
Ms. Tabolt will receive the award for the
next three years. The Caterfino Scholarship
Fund for Young Writers was created by Elissa
Shaw Caterfino (C'83) in memory of
Douglas W. Caterfino (W '83).
Excellence in Information Assurance
The National
Security Agency has designated the
University of Pennsylvania as a Center of Academic Excellence
in Information Assurance Education,
part
of a program intended to safeguard the
nation's information infrastructure
by encouraging universities to offer
coursework in computer security. Penn becomes
one of about 30 such centers nationwide.
The
three-year designation reflects the
NSA's
assessment
of Penn as a national leader in training
students for careers in
computer
security, said Dr. Steve Zdancewic, assistant professor of computer and information
science and NSA liaison on this effort.
It also makes Penn eligible for scholarships
and grants through
the Department of Defense and other agencies within the Federal
government.
The Centers of
Academic Excellence program is intended
to reduce vulnerabilities
in the nation's information infrastructure
by producing a growing number of professionals
with expertise in computer security, Dr.
Zdancewic said, helping
computer security technology evolve to
meet threats as they arise.
Dr. Zdancewic's
colleagues on the NSA project include
Dr. Michael Greenwald, assistant professor
of computer and information science;
Dr. Carl Gunter, associate
professor of computer and information
science; Dr. Andre Scedrov, professor
of mathematics; and Dr. Jonathan
M. Smith, professor of computer and information
science.