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Three Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professors in SAS
December 19, 2006, Volume 53, No. 16

SAS Dean Rebecca Bushnell announced that three faculty members have been named to Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn chairs.

Rita Copeland
Dr. Rita Copeland has been named the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor in the Humanities. Dr. Copeland, a member of the Department of Classical Studies and chair of the Graduate Group in Comparative Literature, has taught across a number of fields and periods including English, Latin and French medieval literature; intellectuals, learning, and literacy in medieval Europe; literary theory from ancient to early modern; and the history of rhetoric from ancient to early modern. Dr. Copeland is a co-editor and co-founder of the Medieval Cultures Series and the annual New Medieval Literatures.
Mark Goulian

Dr. Mark Goulian has been appointed the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Associate Professor of Biology. His research, which focuses on signaling pathways in bacteria, is at the interface of biology and physics; until recently his primary faculty appointment was in Physics and Astronomy. He is working to develop new techniques to measure signaling activity and to explore the general design constraints and schemes for cell signaling. He is a member of Penn’s Institute for Medicine and Engineering.

Anthony Kroch

Dr. Anthony Kroch has been named the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor in the Cognitive Sciences. He specializes in the formal analysis of natural language syntax, historical syntax and the syntax–semantics interface. Dr. Kroch is a widely published author. His latest book, Specificational Sentences: an Investigation into Syntax, Semantics and Information Structure, coauthored with Caroline Heycock of the University of Edinburgh, is currently under review for publication with MIT Press.

 

The Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Chairs were established through a bequest of Edmund and Louise Kahn. Mr. Kahn, W ’25, had a successful career in the oil and natural gas industry. Mrs. Kahn, a graduate of Smith College, worked for Newsweek and owned an interior design firm. The couple’s gift created 12 professorships in SAS and also supports the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, the Modern Languages College House and other projects at the University of Pennsylvania.

 

Almanac - December 19, 2006, Volume 53, No. 16