Honors & Other Things - Almanac, Vol. 47, No. 10, 10/31/2000

Honors & Other Things

ASC President: Dr. Sherman

Dr. Lawrence W. Sherman, the Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations and director of the Fels Center of Government has been elected president of the American Society of Criminology (ASC). Dr. Sherman will serve as president-elect beginning in November and become president for 2001-2002. Last year, Dr. Sherman received the ASC's Edwin Southerland Award for outstanding contributions to criminology and was elected to a five-year term as president of the International Society of Criminology (ISC). He is the first person to ever serve simultaneously as president of both the ASC and the ISC. "Larry Sherman is the most cited scholar in criminology and justice journals," said SAS Dean Samuel H. Preston. "His election to this prestigious post reflects his distinguished contribution to research into crime prevention and policing."

Defense Award: Dr. Silverman

Dr. Barry G. Silverman, professor of systems engineering has received a $1.4 million grant from the Pentagon's Defense Modeling and Simulation Office to improve the realism of electronic personas and intelligent software agents that inhabit virtual training worlds. The goal of the research is to capture and mathematically represent significant dimensions of personality and individual differences as well as the effect of external stressors on these characters. The goal is to create a validated repository of model building parts so that model builders can assemble realistic computerized personalities with particular focus on creating enemy militias, terrorists, and the like.

Lifetime Achievement: Dr. Ruderman

Dr. David Ruderman, the Joseph Meyerhoff Professor in Modern Jewish History and Director of the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, has received a Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in Jewish historical studies from the National Foundation for Jewish Research. He has also been elected president of the American Academy of Jewish Research which is a senior honors society for scholars in Judaic Studies.

Goldsmith Foundation Grant: ICA

The Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) has received a Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation grant. The two-year grant totals $150,000. This is a first-time grant to the ICA from the Goldsmith Foundation and it will provide program support to the lecture and educational series which are part of each exhibit at the ICA.

NURSES HONORED

Research Award

Dr. Linda Aiken, the Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor in Nursing, and director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research has received the Research Award from Pennsylvania State Nurses Association. The award is for the pioneering research on how to improve hospital quality of care.

Global Citizen

Dr. Joyce Thompson, associate dean for graduate studies and professional development and director of WHO Collaborating Center in Nursing and Midwifery Leadership, has received the Global Citizen Award from the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association.

Funding to Study Hypothalamus

Dr. Nancy Tkacs, assistant professor of physiology in nursing, has received a $317,000 grant for her work Counter-regulatory Failure and the Arcuate Nucleus. The joint funding for this initiative is provided by the National Institute for Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases, the National Institute for Neurological disorders and Stroke, and the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. Dr. Tkacs will study the role of the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus in responses to hypoglycemia.

Elected to the Nurses Association

Dr. Melinda Jenkins, director of the Family Nurse Practitioner Program and assistant professor of primary care nursing, has been elected to the board of directors of the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association.

ASC President | Defense Award | Lifetime Achievement | Goldsmith Foundation Grant | Nurses Honored: Aiken, Thompson, Tkacs & Jenkins | Gold Medal | Music Award | Service Award | Consumer Choice: HUP | CHOP NEWS: Chief Compliance & Internal Audit Officer; Chief of Opthalmology

Gold Medalist: Brandon Slay

A 1998 Wharton Graduate, Brandon Slay, won a gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics in Freestyle Wrestling in the 76 kg division. Mr. Slay had originally been awarded the silver medal, but after his German opponent was disqualified after testing positive for steroid use, Mr. Slay received the gold. Mr. Slay was a two-time NCAA Finalist for the Penn Wrestling program.

Mr. Slay said, " I have always dreamed of and worked towards the goal of winning an Olympic Gold Medal. But this certainly wasn't the way I dreamed of doing it. I was very pleased with my performance in Sydney, beating the clear favorite and defending 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist Bouvaisa Saitiev from Russia, along with three others, to make the finals. I am proud to have represented the United States in freestyle wrestling, and to have won a medal for our country."

Music Award: Dr. Kallberg

Dr. Jeffrey Kallberg, professor of music, has been awarded the inaugural Stefan and Wanda Wilk Prize for Research in Polish Music for his book Chopin at the Boundaries: Sex, History, and Musical Genre (Harvard, 1996). The prizes are sponsored by the Polish Music Center (PMC) at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. They are intended to stimulate research on Polish music in academic circles outside of Poland.

Service Award: Nursing

The School of Nursing Health Annex has received a Community Service Excellence Award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration. The Health Annex is located at the Francis J. Myers Recreation Center and is a family oriented, community-based practice. The award is given in recognition of the outstanding service and dedication to promoting nursing educational opportunities and providing exceptional primary health care service to the community.

Consumer Choice Award: HUP

The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) has been named a Consumer Choice Award winner by the National Research Corporation. The award recognizes HUP as one of 122 top hospitals in the nation whose consumers have recognized for providing quality healthcare services.

The Consumer Choice Award reflects the growing role consumer choice plays in the healthcare field. Consumers rate 2,500 hospitals in the study. This year, the study surveyed more than 160,000 households representing over 400,000 consumers in the contiguous 48 states and the District of Columbia.

"The recognition of HUP--by the people it serves--as one of the nation's top hospitals is truly a tribute to the dedication and commitment of its faculty an staff in providing quality patient care," noted HUP Executive Director Garry Scheib.

CHOP NEWS

Chief Compliance and Internal Audit Officer: Ms. Murtha

Lisa Murtha has been appointed chief compliance and internal audit officer of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). This new position is designed to ensure consistent and comprehensive compliance with state and federal regulations and internal policies of the Hospital.

Before joining CHOP, Ms. Murtha was the managing director for KPMG in New York, she had previously served as director of the Control and Compliance and Practice for Deloitte and Touche and had served as corporate compliance officer for Pennsylvania Blue Shield. Ms. Murtha received her B.A. from Penn State and a J.D. from Dickinson School of Law.

Chief of Ophthalmology: Dr. Mills

Dr. Monte Mills, has been appointed chief of the Division of Ophthalmology at CHOP. Dr. Mills is responsible for the ophthalmology services at the Hospital's main campus, and the Specialty Care Centers in Bucks County, King of Prussia, Exton and Voorhees, NJ.

Before joining The Children's Hospital, Dr. Mills was the director of Pediatric Ophthalmology and an associate professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Wisconsin Medical School.

ASC President | Defense Award | Lifetime Achievement | Goldsmith Foundation Grant | Nurses Honored: Aiken, Thompson, Tkacs & Jenkins | Gold Medal | Music Award | Service Award | Consumer Choice: HUP | CHOP NEWS: Chief Compliance & Internal Audit Officer; Chief of Opthalmology

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