Honors & Other Things
Dr. Green: Buck Weaver Award
Dr. Paul E. Green,
professor emeritus of marketing at the Wharton
School, has been named the first recipient
of the MIT Sloan School of Management Buck
Weaver Award. The award was established
to honor individuals who have made important
contributions to the advancement of theory
and practice in marketing science. The theory
and practice focus follows in the MIT tradition
of mens et manus, thinking and doing.
Dr. Green was the unanimous choice from
a list of 25 nominees from business and
academia. "[Dr.] Green was a pioneer in
developing and applying conjoint analysis,
multidimensional scaling, and Bayesian decision
theory to marketing," said Dr. Glen Urban,
the Barabba and MIT Sloan Professor of Management.
The award is sponsored by General
Motors Corporation in honor of Henry Grady "Buck" Weaver
who was a pioneer in marketing research and market-based
decision making in the 1930s.
Dr. Olthoff: Hedwig van Ameringen
Fellow
Dr. Kim M. Olthoff,
associate professor of surgery, associate
director of the liver transplant program
at HUP and the program director of liver
transplantation at CHOP, has been selected
as a 2003-2004 Fellow in the Hedwig van
Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic
Medicine Program for Women. She is one of
45 senior women faculty from medical and
dental schools in the U.S. and Canada to
be chosen.
Dr. Brinster: Hall of Honor
Dr. Ralph Brinster,
the Richard King Mellon Professor of Reproductive
Physiology in the School of Veterinary Medicine,
has been selected for the National Institute
of Child Health and Human Development's
Hall of Honor. The Hall of Honor recognizes
scientists supported by the Institute for
exceptional contributions to advancing knowledge
and improving maternal and child health.
He was one of 15 scientists selected this
year.
Dr. Brinster was chosen for "discovering
a method for in vitro culture of animal
embryos that opened new possibilities in reproductive
biology, and pioneering the use of new techniques
in developmental biology and molecular genetics
to produce transgenic animals, a key technology
in advancing the genetic revolution."
"The NICHD Hall of Honor scientists
exemplify the scientific achievement for which
they are honored as well as the common humanity
that motivates us all to serve others," said
Dr. Duane Alexander, director, NICHD. "We honor
them for who they are, as much as for what they
have done."
Dr. Dmochowski: Dreyfus Award
Dr. Ivan J. Dmochowski,
assistant professor of chemistry, has received
the New Faculty Award from the Camille and
Henry Dreyfus Foundation for his project, Methods,
Molecules, and Microscopes for Better Biological
Imaging.
His work involves developing
small molecule probes, molecular biology strategies,
and spectroscopic tools for studying and controlling
specific gene and protein functions, particularly
protein-nucleic acid interactions, in living
systems.
Dr. Dmochowski came to Penn
in January from the California Institute of Technology,
where he was a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral
Fellow in the biology department. He received
his Ph.D. in chemistry from Caltech in 2000 after
earning a B.A. from Harvard University in 1994.
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus
New Faculty Awards Program was established in
1979 to provide external research funding for
new faculty members in their first year of full-time
academic appointment.
Mr. Murray: Director's Award
Mr. John T. Murray,
head of the exhibitions department, UPM,
has been chosen as the recipient of the
Director's Award from the University of
Pennsylvania Museum. "As head of our Exhibition's
department, Jack Murray has worked with
curators, conservators, exhibition staff
and auxiliary exhibition designers and builders
to coordinate and/or design virtually every
exhibition at the Museum," said Dr. Jeremy
Sabloff, the Williams Director of UPM.
Mr. Murray, head of the exhibition
design department since 1975, is responsible
for the installation of all UPM exhibitions.
The Director's Award was established in 1995
to honor exceptional staff and volunteer achievement.
Ms. Bouldin: Out of Place Memoir
Ms. Joy Bouldin,
a Bread Upon the Waters Scholar in CGS,
was named winner of the Out of Place Memoir
Contest sponsored by the Philadelphia
City Paper and Blue Sky Diaries. Ms.
Bouldin won for her essay, The Mississippi
Diaries. "There is a lot of energy in
the voice," one of the contest judges said, "and
the characters pop off the page. The author
has fun with the language and has a truly
compelling story to tell."
Ms. Bouldin is working on her
first novel. |