January 15, 2004

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AWARDS & HONORS

Rainforest rescuer wins John Scott Award

Professor of Biology Daniel Janzen is one of two winners of the 2003 John Scott Award, given annually by the City of Philadelphia to honor individuals who have made useful inventions. Janzen was honored for his work in the tropical rainforests of Costa Rica, where he established the field of restoration ecology—the science of repairing damaged forests, wetlands, riverbanks and other ecosystems. Janzen and co-recipient Bert Vogelstein of Johns Hopkins received the $15,000 prize at a Nov. 21 ceremony at Girard College. Scott, a Scottish chemist, endowed the prize in 1816 with a $4,000 gift to the city of Philadelphia.

AJOB best new journal

The American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB) has been named Best New Journal of 2003 by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. The council praised AJOB for its technological and scholarly innovation, calling it the first journal it ever reviewed that involves “a level of interdisciplinary interaction in the production of a paper and online journal.” The journal’s strong conflict-of-interest policy also drew the reviewers’ notice. AJOB, the first journal edited at Penn to win this award, was chosen from more than 200 entries submitted to the council by more than 50 presses.

AJOB is based in the Department of Medical Ethics in the School of Medicine and published by MIT Press.

Linda H. Aiken, the Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor in Nursing, has won the 2003 Ernest A. Codman Award for individuals. Aiken received the award for her leadership role in utilizing performance measures to draw attention to important issues in nursing care. The award, named for the physician regarded as the “father of outcomes measurement” in the healthcare industry, is given by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations to honor healthcare organizations that make effective use of performance measurement and industry leaders who have achieved extraordinary success in promoting performance measurement to improve the quality and safety of health care.

Daniel Hoffman, the Felix E. Schelling Professor of English Emeritus, was named the 17th recipient of the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry by The Sewanee Review Dec. 9. The award recognizes Hoffman’s lifetime achievement in poetry and criticism, spanning eleven volumes of poetry, numerous essays and a stint as poet laureate of the United States.

The Sewanee Review, published by the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., is America’s oldest literary quarterly; Hoffman has been a contributor for 50 years. The award was established by K.P.A. Taylor, a younger brother of the poet Conrad Aiken.