HONORS & Other Things

Japan Prize | Environmental Management | Sutherland Award | Javitz Award | Women's Health | Phila. Health Services Award | Nursing Awards | 1999 AAAS Fellows | Red Cross Award | Fulbright Scholarships 1999-2000 | Library | Honors in Two Cities | President of Society | Cancer Research | AIA Awards to Penn Buildings | Public Safety | Horticultural Honor | Arboretum ASLA | Marshall Scholar | Truman Scholar | Thanks to Scandanavia | Woodrow Wilson/ Johnson & Johnson | NSF Grant | BACK TO TOP

 

Japan Prize Award: Ian McHarg

Ian McHarg, emeritus professor of landscape architecture and regional planning is one of two recipients of the 2000 Japan Prize. Professor McHarg is considered a pioneer of the environmental movement and introduced ecological concepts into urban and suburban planning. He is being honored for introducing ecological ideas into city planning and for devising a better system for evaluating the environmental impact of construction projects. The 2000 Japan Prize caries with it a cash award of nearly $490,000. Author of the 1969 book Design with Nature, Professor McHarg began his teaching career here in 1954 and still teaches in the department he created. The award will be presented on April 29, 2000 in Tokyo.


Environmental Management

The Environmental Management Program at Wharton received an award from the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Aspen Institute's Initiative for Social Innovation through Business (ISIB) for incorporating environmental and social issues into its business curricula and extra-cuuricular activities. In a survey, Beyond Grey Pinstripes: Preparing MBAs for Social and Environmental Stewardship, conducted by WRI and ISIB, Wharton was one of only two business schools to rank in the top tier for incorporation of environmental and societal issues into business; University of Michigan was the other. According to the survey, less than 20% of business schools reported training students to manage social and environmental problems facing business.


Sutherland Award: Dr. Sherman

Dr. Lawrence W. Sherman, the Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations in the department of sociology and the director of the Fels Center for Government is the recipient of the 1999 Edwin H. Sutherland Award, presented annually by the American Society of Criminology. The award was presented in Toronto, Canada, on November 17 and recognizes a lifetime of research achievements in the field of criminology. The award is named for the famed criminologist and former president of the American Sociological Association who coined the phrase "white collar crime."

This award recognizes Dr. Sherman's many contributions in the field of criminology, including his pioneering field experiments in arrests and police raids, his theory of defiance of criminal sanctions and his applications of research to public policy for "evidence-based crime prevention." A 1999 study of over 27,000 citations in 20 English language journals of criminology and criminal justice found that Dr. Sherman was the most frequently cited author, a position previously held by the late Marvin Wolfgang, a criminologist who was also a recipient of the Sutherland Award.

Dr. Sherman has been appointed president of the International Society for Criminology. He is only the third U.S. citizen to hold this position in the Socitey's 61-year history. Dr. Sherman was appointed to the five-year term in December.


Javitz Award: Dr. Grossman

Dr. Robert Grossman, professor of radiology, neurosurgery, and neurology at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, is the recipient of a prestigious Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Grossman is one of only ten scientists in the country to receive a Javits Award this year.

The nearly $4 million award will be given over a period of four years with the opportunity to extend the length of the grant for three additional years. It is designated for investigators who have a distinguished record of substantial contributions to some field of neurological science.

This funding will support Dr. Grossman's on-going research in neurological disorders of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Among many symptoms of the disease, patients with MS are found to have lesions in the brain. For more than two decades, Dr. Grossman has been investigating how these damaging brain lesions develop and he and his colleagues are using sophisticated magnetic resonance techniques to categorize and determine the extent of the disease and to ascertain drug efficacy.

"With this support from the NIH, we'll continue making progress towards unlocking the mysteries of multiple sclerosis," he said. "It is an honor to be recognized for work that I feel privileged doing."

Dr. Grossman has been Chief of Neuroradiology at Penn since 1987. He received his medical degree and completed his residency training at Penn's School of Medicine. He later completed a fellowship in neuroradiology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Dr. Grossman has authored more than 250 publications and is co-author of the "best-selling" medical textbook, Neuroradiology: the Requisites. Most notably, he is chairman of the NIH Study Section for Diagnostic Radiology Imaging.

The Javits Investigator awardee is selected by the National Advisory Neurological Disorders and Stroke Council (NANDS) from among the pool of competing applicants during a fiscal year. Awardees must have demonstrated exceptional scientific excellence and productivity in one of the areas of neurological research supported by the NANDS, have proposals of the highest scientific merit, and be judged highly likely to be able to continue to do research.

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Excellence in Women's Health

The Women's Health program at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center was one of six to receive an award for excellence in women's health from the National Association for Women's Health (NAWH). These awards celebrate benchmark programs and outstanding individual efforts that further the goal of improved healthcare for women. The Center was specifically recognized for its ambulatory services for women. Ambulatory visits to Penn's women's health programs exceed 100,000 visits annually.


 

 Philadelphia Health Services Award

Philadelphia Health Services awarded Dr. Patrick Storey the Community Leadership Award at its 30th anniversary celebration. Dr. Story, emeritus professor of medicine and associate dean of the internal medicine program in the School of Medicine, was recognized for his pioneering efforts in making community healthcare accessible for thousands of families.


Nursing Awards

   Dr. Ann Burgess the van Ameringen professor of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing has received the Episteme Award from sigma Theta Tau international Honor Society of Nursing. The award acknowledges a major breakthrough in nursing research and includes a $15,000 stipend. She has played a significant role in changing beliefs, attitudes and practices toward crime victims, particularly sexual abuse victims, through her research and she embodies the values of Sigma Theta Tau said the chair of the Sigma Theta Tau International Research Committee.

Dr. Janet Deatrick, co-director of the International Center of Research for Women, Children and Families and Dr. Diane L. Spatz, assistant professor of health care of women and childbearing nursing received Distinguished Scholars Awards from Sigma Theta Tau, the international nursing honors fraternity.

Julianne Glancy, a senior nursing student, has received a prestigious Andrus/AARP scholarship award for studies in aging and economics. She is presenting a research poster at the annual Gerontology Society of America meeting in San Francisco on the nursing CARE program.

Susan M. Beidler, a pre-doctoral fellow in the International Center of Research for Women, Children, and Families received the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association Nursing Practice Award at their annual convention. This award recognizes a PSNA member who is involved in direct patient care, who acts as a role model to inspire peers to improve the quality of their practice, and who improves the quality of patient care. In addition to being a full-time doctoral student, Ms. Beidler practices at Abbottsford & Schuylkill Falls Family Practice and Counseling, nurse-managed primary care centers, as a family nurse practitioner.

Dr. Elizabeth Capezuti, research assistant professor of nursing, and Julie Fairman, assistant professor of nursing, Adult Health and Illness Division, were elected Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing.

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Election of 1999 AAAS Fellows

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has awarded the distinction of Fellow to two members of the University community. Dr. Jenny Pickworth Glusker and Dr. Vivianne T. Nachmias are among 283 members who were elevated to this rank this year because of their efforts toward advancing science or fostering applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished. The New Fellows, according to the tradition which began in 1874, will be presented with an official certificate and a gold and blue (representing science and engineering, respectively) rosette pin on February 19 at the Fellows forum during the 2000 AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.

Dr. Jenny Pickworth Glusker, adjunct professor of biochemistry and biophysics of the Fox Chase Cancer Center was elected as a fellow in the Pharmaceutical Sciences "for distinguished contributions to the structural analyses of biological molecules, especially for work elucidating the role of metals in biological materials."

Dr. Vivianne T. Nachmias, professor emeritus of cell & developmental biology, was elected as a fellow in the Medical Sciences "for important contributions to the study of actomyosins in cell motility from amoeba to human platelet and for co-discovery of the function of beta-thymosin in actin sequestration and actin expression."


Red Cross Award

Lorene Cary, a lecturer in creative writing, was presented with a Spectrum Award by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the Red Cross. Ms. Cary received the Rising Star Award which is given to "an innovative, up and coming woman who is a 'rising star' and is 'breaking new ground', making an impact on the community; has a commitment to the region; who serves as a role model and a motivator; and who also shows promise and potential for future achievements." She was recognized for her accomplishments teaching creative writing at Penn, and for founding the Art Sanctuary, which brings authors, poets, musicians and other artists to a North Philadelphia community. Ms. Cary received her B.A. and M.A. from Penn in 1978.


Fulbright Scholars 1999-2000

The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and the Department of State have announced the names of some 700 U.S. recipients.

Dr. Robert P. Inman, Miller-Sherrard Professor; professor of finance, public policy and management and real estate at the Wharton School, is among the academics, professionals, and independent scholars who have received Fulbright awards to lecture, consult, or conduct research abroad in 1999-2000.

Also on the list is Ann Kuhlman, former associate director of international programs, now Yale's director of the Office of Internatonal Students and Scholars. She is one of four recipients of the US-South Korea International Education Administrators Program through which she spent two weeks in June there visiting Korean universities and meeting with presidents and her international education counterparts.


The Library With the Most Answers

The University Library System has received the 1998-1999 annual award for "Most Inquiries Answered by an Affiliate" from the State Data Center. The library has won this award every year since becoming an affiliate in 1996.


Honors In Two Cities

Dr. Elfriede Regina Knauer, a research associate at the University Museum, received the Prix Stanislas Julien from the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in Paris for her book The Camel's Load in Life and Death, which traces the history of the representation of camels along and around the "silk route" that linked Europe and Asia. Dr. Knauer was also elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. A native of Frankfurt, Germany, Dr. Knauer has researched and published widely in the art history of ancient Greece, the ancient and medieval history of the silk route, and Renaissance culture. She has been a research associate at the Museum since 1974.


President of Society

Dr. C. William Hanson, III, an associate professor of anesthesia, surgery and medicine, has been elected President of the American Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists. Dr. Hanson graduated from Penn medical school, completed an internal medicine residency at Stanford, and then returned to Penn for an anesthesia residency and a critical care fellowship. He has been practicing CVT anesthesia and critical care medicine at Penn for ten years, and he also serves as Section Chief of Critical Care Medicine and Medical Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit.



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Cancer Research

The National Cancer Institute, a branch of NIH, has announced more than $4.1 million in grants to 10 institutions, including Penn, to support research on molecular changes in tumors. Dr. Steven W. Johnson, Center for Cancer Pharmacology, will receive $219,177 to develop profiles in ovarian cancer.



Awards for Penn Buildings

Two architectural firms have won awards from the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute of Architecture (AIA) for buildings they designed for Penn. Ewing Cole Cherry Brott received one of three 1999 Honor Awards in the Unbuilt Category for the David S. Pottruck Health & Fitness Center. Kieran Timberlake & Harris received one of four 1999 Awards of Recognition in the Unbuilt Category for its design of Hamilton Village.



Public Safety

Vice President for Public Safety Thomas M. Seamon has been named Chairman of the ASIS (American Society for Industrial Security) Law Enforcement Liaison Council. It is a national council to foster better working relationships between private security and public police. ASIS International, with more than 32,000 members, is the largest international organization for professionals responsible for security, including managers and directors of security. It is dedicated to increasing the effectiveness and productivity of security practices by developing educational programs and materials that address broad security concerns.

Mr. Stratis Skoufalos, director of security services and Mr. Chris Algard, associate director of security services, received their Certified Protection Professional designation from ASIS. They have joined more than 8,000 security practitioners worldwide to have been awarded the CPP credential; to earn this, they passed a comprehensive exam covering a wide range of security topics, and to maintain the credential will have to pursue a program of continuing education and professional activity to earn required recertification credits every three years.



Horticultural Honor

Paul W. Meyer, the F. Otto Haas Director of the Morris Arboretum, was honored by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society with its annual Distinguished Achievement Award. The society called Mr. Meyer's influence on horticulture in this area over the last 25 years "diverse and exceptional." He joined the Arboretum in 1976 as curator of the Living Collections and was named director in 1991. A plant explorer who has been involved in ornamental plant introductions from Asia, he has long worked for a rational approach to foreign plant introduction.



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Arboretum Award

Morris Arboretum received a Centennial Medallion as one of the most beautiful and well-loved gardens in the region from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA).

ASLA also recognized Andropogon Associates, the Arboretum's landscape architects, for their design and planning over the past 25 years.

 
 (L-R) ASLA chair of the Pennsylvania/Delaware Chapter Laura Hardt; Yaki Miodovnik, Andropogon principal; Paul Meyer, Morris Aboretum director; Jose Alminana and and Carol Franklin, Andropogon principals.


Marshall Scholar

Andrew March, a senior in the College, is among 40 students nationwide who has been awarded the Marshall Scholarship for two years of graduate study in the UK. He is a candidate for a B.A. with a triple major in political science, history (intellectual) and Asian and Middle Eastern studies (Islamic Near East). A three-time recipient of the University Scholar Research Grant, he has spent the last three summers conducting independent research, largely focusing on ethnic conflict and its resolution. He has done fieldwork in Kosovo, Northern Ireland, Bosnia, and Palestine. The summer before coming to Penn from Maine, he worked as a translator in Slovakia. The Marshall Scholarship is the crowning award in his scholarly achievements; the 23-year-old is also Dean's Scholar, a University Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, a Golden Key Honor Society Selectee, as well as a recipient of the Rose and Nassau Undergraduate Research Funds and the College Undergraduate Research Grant. Mr. March will attend the University of Oxford where he will pursue a Master of Philosophy in Politics or History.

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Truman Foundation Award

Penn is one of five colleges and universities chosen as 1999 recipients for the Truman Foundation Honor Institution Award. A plaque of Mr. Truman was presented at a luncheon last month by the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation to President Judith Rodin and Assistant VPUL Terry Conn, Penn's Truman representative. Sarah B. Zimbler, C'00, was named a Truman Scholar for 1999, the third consecutive year that a Penn student has been selected as a Truman Scholar. Over the past 23 years, Penn has had 13 Truman Scholars.


Thanks to Scandinavia

Two Penn graduate students, Marianne Baernholdt and Alexander Hans Aspluno, have received the Thanks To Scandinavia Barbara and Edward Netter and J.E. and Z.B. Butler Scholarships for 1999-2000. They have been granted stipends of $12,000 each.


Woodrow Wilson-J&J Grant

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has awarded a 1999 Woodrow Wilson-Johnson & Johnson Dissertation Grant in Women's and Children's Health to Carla C. Keirns, a graduate student in history & sociology of science. She specializes in studying the interface of medicine and American culture, and her dissertation is titled Short of Breath--A Social and Intellectual History of Asthma in America.


NSF Grant for Students to Teach

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $1.4 million to Penn to support collaborative programs that enable graduate and undergraduate students in science, mathematics, engineering and technology to teach in elementary and secondary schools. The NSF gave a total of $13.4 million to 31 institutions.


Japan Prize | Environmental Management | Sutherland Award | Javitz Award | Women's Health | Phila. Health Services Award | Nursing Awards | 1999 AAAS Fellows | Red Cross Award | Fulbright Scholarships 1999-2000 | Library | Honors in Two Cities | President of Society | Cancer Research | AIA Awards to Penn Buildings | Public Safety | Horticultural Honor | Arboretum ASLA | Marshall Scholar | Truman Scholar | Thanks to Scandanavia | Woodrow Wilson/ Johnson & Johnson | NSF Grant | BACK TO TOP


Almanac, Vol. 46, No. 16, January 11, 2000

| FRONT PAGE | CONTENTS | JOB-OPS | CRIMESTATS | Appointments & Promotions | MLK Commemorative Celebration & Symposium | TALK ABOUT TEACHING ARCHIVE | BETWEEN ISSUES | JANUARY at PENN |