October 16, 2003

• History written in stone, brick and steel
  Professor of History Tom Sugrue's job as vice chair of the Philadelphia Historical Commission is to decide what parts of the city's physical past are worth preserving.

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AWARDS & HONORS

Lorraine Beitler, curator of the Dreyfus Collection in the Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library, will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Interfaith Committee of Remembrance at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City Oct. 18. She is being honored for her defense of democratic ideals of education and human rights during her distinguished teaching career.

Ralph Brinster V’60, 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. As one of 15 scientists selected this year, Brinster was chosen for his discovery of a method for in vitro culture of animal embryos and pioneering the use of new techniques in developmental biology and molecular genetics to produce transgenic animals.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Ivan J. Dmochowski has received the New Faculty Award from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation for his project “Methods, Molecules, and Microscopes for Better Biological Imaging.” A member of the Penn faculty since January, Dmochowski’s work involves small molecule probes, molecular biology strategies and spectroscopic tools for studying and controlling specific gene and protein functions. Since 1979, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Awards program has provided external research funding for new faculty members in their first year at the University.

Paul E. Green, professor emeritus of marketing at Wharton, has been named the first recipient of the MIT Sloan School of Management Buck Weaver Award, sponsored by the General Motors Corporation. Green was the unanimous choice from a list of 25 nominees and was chosen for his pioneering work in developing and applying conjoint analysis, multidimensional scaling and Bayesian decision theory to marketing.

Kim M. Olthoff, associate professor of surgery, associate director of the liver transplant program at HUP and the program director of liver transplantation at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, has been selected as a 2003-4 Fellow in the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Program for Women. Olthoff was one of 45 senior faculty chosen from American and Canadian medical and dental schools.