SENATE: From the Senate Office |
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February 9, 2016, Volume 62, No. 22 |
Under the Faculty Senate Rules, formal notification to members may be accomplished by publication in Almanac. The following is published under that rule:
To: Members of the Standing Faculty
From: Reed Pyeritz, Chair
Nominations for Offices Requested
In accordance with the Rules of the Faculty Senate you are invited to suggest candidates for the posts and terms stated below, with supporting letters if desired. Candidates’ names should be submitted promptly to Harvey Rubin, chair of the Senate Nominating Committee, by telephone at (215) 746-4234, or by email to rubinh@upenn.edu
The following posts are to be filled for 2016-2017:
• Chair-elect:
(Incumbent: Laura Perna)
• Secretary-elect:
(Incumbent: Marcella Devoto)
• Four At-Large Members of the Senate Executive Committee (3-year term)
(Incumbents: Delphine Dahan, Angela Mills, Philip Rea, Florian Schwarz)
• Two Members of the Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility (3-year term)
(Incumbents: Peter Dodson, Nader Engheta)
• One Member of the Senate Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty (3-year term)
(Incumbent: Jerry Jacobs)
Nominating Committee Elected
The Senate Executive Committee’s slate of nominees for the Senate Nominating Committee was circulated to the Senate Membership on November 24, 2015. No additional nominations by petition have been received within the prescribed time. Therefore, according to the Senate Rules, the Executive Committee’s slate is declared elected.
Those elected are:
• Norman Badler (Rachleff Family Professor, department of computer & information science, School of Engineering & Applied Science)
• Peter Fader (Frances and Pei-Yuan Chia Professor and professor of marketing, Wharton School)
• Claire Finkelstein (Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and professor of philosophy, Law School)
• Scott Francis (assistant professor of Romance languages, School of Arts & Sciences)
• Blanca Himes (assistant professor of epidemiology in biostatistics & epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine)
• Guido Menzio (associate professor, department of economics, School of Arts & Sciences)
• Maja Bucan (professor of genetics, Perelman School of Medicine)
• Rosemary Polomano (professor of pain practice, School of Nursing)
• Harvey Rubin (professor of medicine, Perelman School of Medicine)
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