Honors & Other
Things
Dr.
Litt: Dreifuss-Penry Award
Dr.
Brian Litt, assistant professor of neurology and bioengineering and
director of the EEG Laboratory at HUP, has been chosen as the winner of
the 2003 American Academy of Neurology's Dreifuss-Penry Award for
epilepsy research. Dr. Litt's research helps demonstrate that epileptic
seizures do not begin abruptly but build over minutes to hours before
triggering a clinical seizure. While the seizures build they go through
a series of steps that can be detected by analyzing the EEG recorded from
electrodes implanted in the brain.
Dr.
Coughlin: Basic Research Award
Dr.
Christina M. Coughlin, a research fellow at the Abramson Family Cancer
Research Institute, has received the Fellow Basic Research award for 2003
from the Society for Pediatric Research. Dr. Coughlin was chosen for her
work in showing that modified immune cells can efficiently deliver genetic
material to stimulate a desirable immune response. Dr. Coughlin conducts
research in the laboratory of Dr. Robert H. Vonderheide, at the Abramson
Family Cancer Research Institute. She is also a pediatric hematology-oncology
fellow at CHOP. "This award recognizes Dr. Coughlin's leadership
at the national level and the beneficiaries of this work and children
with cancer," said Dr. Vonderheide. The Society for Pediatric Research
encourages young investigators to engage in research that is of benefit
to children by providing a forum for interchange of ideas and an opportunity
for young investigators to present their work.
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Two
to Academy of
Arts & Sciences
Dr.
Michael
Lawrence
Klein,
the
Hepburn
Professor
of
Physical
Sciences,
and Dr.
David
Cass,
the
Paul
F.
and
E.
Warren
Shafer
Miller
Professor
of
Economics,
have been
elected
fellows
of
the
Academy
of
Arts
and
Sciences.
They
are
among the
187
new
fellows
and
29
foreign
honorary
members
for
2003. "Newly
elected
Fellows
are
selected
through
a
highly
competitive
process
that
recognizes
those
who
have
made
preeminent
contributions
to
their
disciplines," said
Academy
president
Patricia
Meyer
Spacks.
Founded
in
1780,
the
American
Academy
of Arts
and
Sciences
is
an
international
learned
society
composed
of
the
world's
leading scientists,
scholars,
artists,
business
people,
and
public
leaders. |
Dr.
Kumanyika: Member of AES
Dr.
Shriki Kumanyika, professor of epidemiology, senior scholar in the
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and associate dean
for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, director of the graduate
program in Public Health Studies, and senior fellow of The Institute on
Aging, has been elected as a member of the American Epidemiologial Society
(AES). Dr. Kumanyika was chosen based upon her epidemiologic accomplishments
and contributions as evidenced by publications, academic activities, and
other aspects of professional work.
Dr.
Johnston: Lifetime Achievement
Dr.
Francis E. Johnston, emeritus professor and curator of physical anthropology,
has received the Charles Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award of the American
Association of Physical Anthropologists. Dr. Johnston received the award
for his combination of research, teaching and service both to the profession
and the lay community particularly the Urban Research Initiative program.
Rose
Awards
The
Rose Awards are awarded annually for outsanding research achievements
by Penn undergraduates in any discipline.
Corey
Brooks, C'03, for The
Effect of the Electoral College
on Voter Turnout
Lauren
Delfs, C'03, for The
Hunt for the Proto-Augment: Cross-Linguistic
Parallels for Developments in
Indo-European
Adam
Furman, C'03, for Characterization
of Phase Locking in the Chick
Cochlear Nerve
Meredith
Gamer, C'04, for Iconoclasm
in Art History: The Reformation,
the French Revolution and the
Taliban
Ana
Maria Gomez Lopez, C'03,
GAS'04, for Legitimacies
of Justice: Nasa Communities,
the State and Legal Pluralism
in Northern Cauca, Colombia
Lauren
Gross, C'03, for The
1961 Non-Renewal of the US-Saudi
Dhahran Airfield Agreement
Danielle
Kudla, C'03, for Foreign
Intrusion: Western Involvement in
the Exportation of Internet and Surveillance
Technology to China
Katherine
Monahan, NURS'03, for The
Safety and Efficacy of Dietary
Supplements: The FDA and Ephedrine
Rachel
Moser, C'03, for An
Expressive Writing Intervention
for Canine Search and Rescue
Team Handlers Deployed after
Sept. 11, 2001
Michael
Perling, C'03, for Effect
of Brand and Outlet Variation
on Price in Malaysia, China,
Singapore and Thailand
Ankoor
Shah, C'03, for Generation
of Retroviruses Expressing Anti-Apoptotic
Genes for the Study on Tumorigenic
Conversion of Murine Bone Marrow
Cells
Claire
Sherman, C'03, for Revelation:
Psychological Relationships within
Contemporary Figurative Painting
Katie
Turner, C'03, for Diversity
of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi
and its Influences on Soil Dynamics
Fulbright
Fellowships
Click
here for other fulbright
fellows
for this year.
Kathleen
Barthmaier, (WH '03) for
a business internship in Mexico.
Katharine
Davis, (COL '03) for
anthropology research in Bolivia.
Rachel
Fleischer, (COL '03)
to teach English in South Korea.
Atul
Joshi, (COL/WH '03)
for a business internship in
Mexico.
Eric
Lee, (EAS '03) to study
biology in Austria.
Efthimios
Parasidis, (LAW '00)
to research public health in
Greece.
Avi
Rubin, (COL '03) to
study diplomatic history in Israel.
Corrections:
Almanac was
not given the correct titles
for the following individuals who were in last
week's centerspread
on Wharton Teaching Awards. They should have
read as follows. -- Ed.
Dr.
Paul Kleindorfer, Anheuser-Busch Professor of
Management Science at Wharton.
Dr.
Eric Bradlow, associate professor.
Dr.
Matthew R. McBrady, lecturer.
Dr.
Lawrence Zicklin, lecturer.
Dr.
Peter Zemsky, visiting associate
professor.
Dr.
Ziv Katalan, adjunct associate
professor.
Dr.
N. Bulent Gultekin, associate professor of finance.
Dr.
Gordon Bodnar, lecturer.
Dr.
Nicholas Souleles, associate professor.
Dr.
Lorin Hitt, associate professor.
Almanac, Vol. 49, No. 33, May 13, 2003
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