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Honors
& Other Things
PRESIDENTIAL
APPOINTMENT | ROYAL SOCIETY | POOL
AWARD | NEBRIJA PRIZE | SMITHSONIAN
COMISSION | SEAS DISTINGUISHED RESEARCH |
CAPUTTO AWARD | NEH GRANT |
CHOP PHYSICIAN IN CHIEF | VETERINARY
HONORS | WW SMITH CHAIR PEDIATRIC GENOMICS
| UPHS 'MOST WIRED' | NURSING
HONORS | SEAS PENDER AWARD |
ISHIB TRUSTEE | AAGBA HONOR | LEADERSHIP
AWARD | 2 MORE FULBRIGHTS |
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Presidential
Appointment: Dr. Mitchell
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President
George W. Bush has appointed Wharton economist Dr. Olivia
S. Mitchell to the President's Commission to Strengthen
Social Security. Previously having taught at Harvard and Cornell
Universities, Dr. Mitchell came to Wharton in 1993 as International
Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor of Insurance
and Risk Management. She is also executive director of Wharton's
Pension Research Council as well as a research associate at
National Bureau of Economic Research--a position she has held
since 1988.
Dr.
Mitchell has been a consultant to World Bank, U.S. Department
of Labor, U.S. Social Security Administration, U.S. Government
Accounting Office and U.S. Treasury, among many other organizations.
From 1993-1999 Dr. Mitchell served on the board of directors
of the National Academy of Social Insurance.
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Royal Society Foreign Member
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Dr.
Clara Franzini-Armstrong, a professor in the department
of cell and developmental biology and member of the Pennsylvania
Muscle Institute, was recently named a Foreign Member of the
Royal Society--an independent scientific academy of the UK dedicated
to promoting excellence in science--for "her ultra-structural
studies of membranes and macromolecular complexes that are responsible
for the functioning of skeletal and cardiac muscle. She provided
the structural basis for understanding of the spread of the
surface membrane electrical signal to the interior of the muscle
fiber and the coupling between electrical events and contraction." |
Ithiel de Sola
Pool Award: Dr. Jamieson
Dr.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication,
received the Ithiel de Sola Pool Award "for her exploration
of the implications of research on politics in a global society,"
from the American Political Science Association. Dean Jamieson was
among 25 people honored for their scholarly contributions to the
field at the Association's annual meeting last August.
Elio Antonio
de Nebrija Prize
Dr.
Russell P. Sebold, emeritus professor of Romance languages,
was awarded the International Elio Antonio de Nebrija Prize. The
prize, considered the highest award of its kind in the field of
Hispanism, is awarded annually to a foreign Hispanist by the Universidad
de Salamanca, in Spain.
Dr. Sebold
is the former chair of Romance languages. He is editor of the Hispanic
Review and a prominent critic in the field of Spanish eighteenth
and Romanticism studies. He is also a corresponding member of the
Royal Spanish Academy and of the Catalan Academy of Belles Lettres.
Smithsonian
Commission: Dr. Sabloff
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Dr.
Jeremy Sabloff, the Williams Director of the University
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, was named chairman
of the Smithsonian's newly named Science Commission. The commission
mission is "to advise the Secretary and the Board of
Regents on the design of the full range of elements to be
addressed" as it refines and focuses its scientific research
activities.
Dr.
Sabloff serves along with 18 commission members, whose areas
of academic interest span the disciplines from anthropology
to zoology.
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SEAS Distinguished
Research Award
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Dr.
Raymond J. Gorte, Russell Pearce and Elizabeth Crimian Heuer
Professor of Chemical Engineering, was honored as the inaugural
recipient of the 2001 Penn Engineering Distinguished Research
Award on September 20, at Rainey Auditorium at the University
Museum where he presented a lecture on Developing Fuel Cells
that Run on Real Fuels. |
Ranwell Caputto
Award: Dr. Levitan
Dr.
Irwin B. Levitan, chairman of the department of neuroscience
and the David J. Mahoney Professor of Neurological Sciences at Penn's
School of Medicine, has been named the recipient of the Ranwell
Caputto Award for 2001.
The
award recognizes outstanding achievement in the area of neurochemistry.
It was presented at the biennial meeting of the International Society
for Neurochemistry, at which Dr. Levitan was the Society's Plenary
Lecturer, discussing Molecular Mechanisms in the Modulation of
Neuronal Excitability.
Dr.
Levitan's ongoing research combines biochemistry, molecular biology,
and electrophysiology in its quest to discover the ways in which
nerve cell activity is regulated to control behavior.
Dr.
Levitan is the Secretary of the Neuroscience Section of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science and has recently been
elected to their Governing Council.
NEH Grant to
Dr. Cassanelli
Dr.
Lee Cassanelli, associate professor of history who teaches African
history, oral history, and comparative world history, was given
$126,773 from the National Endowment for the Humanies for The
Indian Ocean: Cradle of Globalization, a four-week national
institute for 25 college and university teachers to study the emerging
scholarship on globalization and world and global history, focusing
on communities on the shores of the Indian Ocean.
This award
was one of 389 recently announced NEH grants to museums, colleges
and other educational institutions across the U.S.--totaling $20.9
million. The grants fall into four areas: preservation and access,
research, education, and public programs.
CHOP Names
a New Physician-in-Chief
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Pediatric
hematologist Dr. Alan R. Cohen has been named physician-in-chief
at Children's Hospital and chair-designate of the Departments
of Pediatrics both at CHOP and the School of Medicine. Dr.
Cohen, who has been a UPHS staff member for 23 years, succeeds
Dr. Steven M. Altschuler, who was named president and chief
executive officer of CHOP last year.
As
physician-in-chief, Dr. Cohen leads the Hospital's largest
department, encompassing 18 divisions with 345 physicians.
Working closely and collaboratively with Dr. Altschuler, Dr.
Cohen has major responsibility for the Hospital's missions
of patient care, research and education.
Dr.
Cohen is world-renowned for his work with thalassemia, also
known as Cooley's anemia, and has played a leading role in
developing new approaches to the treatment of this inherited
blood disorder. In 1997, Philadelphia Magazine cited
him as one of Philadelphia's "world class" doctors
in pediatric hematology for his expertise in thalassemia and
other blood disorders. Dr. Cohen presently is the principal
investigator for two research grants related to thalassemia
from the NIH.
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Veterinary
Honors
Bertner
Memorial Award
Early
last week, the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
gave The Ernst W. Bertner Memorial Award to Dr. Ralph Brinster,
Richard King Mellon Professor of Reproductive Physiology in
the School of Veterinary Medicine.
Established
in 1950, the award is conferred annually on a physician or
scientist who has made distinguished contributions to cancer
research.
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More Vet School Honors
Dr.
Carl E. Aronson, associate professor emeritus of pharmacology/toxicology,
was given the Lloyd E. Davis Award of the American Academy
of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics' (AAVPT). This
prestigious award honors outstanding, career-long contributions
to the advancement and extension of knowledge in the fields
of veterinary or comparative pharmacology.
Dr.
Charles Benson, professor of microbiology, was honored
by the Boy Scouts of America for his volunteer work. Dr. Benson
was presented the Silver Beaver Award, the highest award given
by the organization to adult volunteers.
Dr.
Benson also received a grant from the Pennsylvania Animal
Health Commission for his study, Treatment of Staphylococcal
Mastitis using Specific Bacteriophage.
Dr.
David Kritchevsky, Caspar Wistar Scholar and professor
of biochemistry, was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science
degree by Purdue University. Dr. Kritchevsky was recognized
for "outstanding contributions to nutrition research elucidating
the unique tole of lipids, calories and fiber in human nutrition
and disease."
Dr. Kritchevsky was also made a fellow by The American Oil
Chemists' Society.
Dr.
Adrian Morrison, professor of behavioral science, has
been elected vice president of the Pennsylvania Society for
Biomedical Research.
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W.W. Smith
Chair in Pediatric Genomics
CHOP
has designated Dr. Vivian G. Cheung as the recipient of the
William Wikoff Smith Endowed Chair in Pediatric Genomic Research.
The chair was established by a $ 1 million gift from the W.W. Smith
Charitable Trust.
Dr.
Cheung, a pediatrician and molecular geneticist, is a national pioneer
in building and using DNA microarrays. Microarrays are glass or
silicon slides holding rows of nucleic acid molecules through which
computerized technology is used to rapidly process vast amounts
of biological information. Potential uses include gene discovery,
diagnostic tests and analyzing variations among individual patients
in their disease susceptibility and responses to drugs.
"This
endowed chair in pediatric genomics is the first of its kind to
be established at a children's hospital and among the first in this
burgeoning new field to be awarded at any medical institution,"
said Dr. Steven M. Altschuler, CHOP president and CEO.
"The
gift of this chair brings to 44 the number of endowed chairs at
CHOP and brings the Hospital's researchers closer to discovering
and ultimately correcting faulty genes responsible for a multitude
of childhood diseases," he said.
UPHS Wired'
for Health
The
University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS)
has been named one of
the nation's
"100 Most Wired" hospitals and health care systems in
the July issue of Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal
of the American Hospital Association.
Nursing
Honors
Distinguished
Nurse Alumni Award
Dr. F. Deborah McGuire, associate professor in the
School of Nursing, has been awarded the Distinguished Nurse
Alumni Award from the University of Illinois at Chicago College
of Nursing.
Lavina
Dock Award
Karen Buhler-Wilkerson's new book No Place Like
Home: A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001) won the Lavinia
Dock Award from the American Association for the History of
Nursing.
College
of Physicians Committee
Chair
Dr.
Ann L. O'Sullivan, associate professor of Primary Care
Nursing, was named Chair of the Executive Committee of the
Section on Public Health and Preventive Medicine at The College
of Physicians of Philadelphia.
The
Committee's focus is to bring attention to public health matters
and influence public policy for the betterment of the community.
In particular, the Section on Public Health and Preventive
Medicine provides programs featuring national, state and local
experts responding to pressing, current public health issues.
"It's
a credit to The College of Physicians that my colleagues recognize
the important role nursing plays in the country's wellness
agenda," said Dr. O'Sullivan, a Robert Wood Johnson Executive
Nurse Fellow. "We continue to study public health problems
and bring together institutional, professional and municipal
perspectives to find solutions."
Episteme
Award: Nursing's Linda Aiken
Penn
Nursing Professor Linda Aiken will be honored with
the Episteme Award from the Sigma Theta Tau International.
The Episteme is the most prestigious award in nursing. In
conjunction with the Episteme, to be presented in November,
Dr. Aiken was also given The Friends of the National Institute
for Nursing Research Pathfinder Award and The National Media
Award from the American Academy of Nursing to be presented
later this month.
Dr.
Aiken, who is director of the Center for Health Outcomes and
Policy Research at School of Nursing, was given the Episteme
"for her groundbreaking research, particularly in the
area of nurse staffing issues," says Honor Society of
Nursing President Patricia Thompson. "Dedicated to the
improving patient health, Dr. Aiken has demonstrated how practice
environments that support professional nurse practice produce
excellent patient outcomes--even without high nurse staffing
numbers."
"Dr.
Aiken's extensive body of cutting-edge scientific work has
helped to change negative mindsets within nursing and the
larger health care arena by demonstrating that professional
nursing practice is in the public's interest," says Dr.
Neville E. Strumpf, an Episteme honoree for work in patient
restraints, an honor society member and interim dean of the
School of Nursing. "I can think of no other candidate
more deserving of the Episteme Award than Dr. Aiken."
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School of
Engineering's Harold Pender Award
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The
Harold Pender Award was presented to Jack St. Clair Kilby
at a reception and dinner at the University Museum on March
21, 2001. Mr. Kilby, the 2000 Nobel Prize winner in Physics,
was honored for his contribution to the invention of the integrated
circuit and for the profound effect his contribution has had
on society. Provost Barchi's remarks at the reception emphasized
the significance of the Pender Award and that Mr. Kilby was
in esteemed company as previous Pender Award recipients included
five Nobel laureates.
The
Pender Award, named for Harold Pender, the first Dean of Penn's
Moore School of Electrical Engineering, is the School of Engineering's
highest award and has been given annually since 1972.
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Elected
to Board of Trustees of ISHIB
Dr.
Shiriki Kumanyika has been elected to a one year term as a member
of the Board of Trustees of the International Society on Hypertension
in Blacks (ISHIB), a nonprofit, professional society. Dr. Kumanyika
is the associate dean for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
at the School of Medicine, where she is also a professor of epidemiology,
a senior scholar in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
and a senior fellow of the Institute on Aging.
Dr.
Kumanyika is the author of numerous research articles, many of which
focus on the problems of obesity and overweight in minorities.
As a member
of the Board of Trustees, Dr. Kumanyika will assume a leadership
position, working to help eliminate health disparities found in
ethnic populations. ISHIB was founded to respond to the disproportionate
rate of high blood pressure and cardiovascular risk factors present
in ethnic populations. Today it has expanded its scope to include
diabetes, stroke, lipid disorders, and renal disease.
AABGA Honor:
Arboretum's Paul Meyer
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Paul
W. Meyer, the Otto F. Haas Director of the Morris Arboretum
was honored with the 2001 AABGA Professional Citation Award
by the International Organization of Public Garden Professionals.
Mr.
Meyer was cited for his leadership in the revitalization of
the Morris Arboretum. He was selected for playing a key role
in the organization of the North American Plant Collection
as well as the North American-China Plant Exploration Consortium,
his leadership in eight plant-collecting trips to Asia and
his "tremendous contributions to the field of public
horticulture."
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Leadership
Award: Mr. Palladino
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Michael
Palladino, who was named associate vice president of networking
and telecommunications at ISC last year, has become the first
recipient of the Leadership Award of the Association for Telecommunications
Professionals in Higher Education.
Mr.
Palladino was recognized for his "dedication to delivering
best cost for best service to our customers by the elimination
of legacy systems and the active advancement of new technologies,
which have been ongoing trademarks of his successful leadership."
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Two More Fulbrights
Whitney
Miller, a graduating senior in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
with a concentration in Japanese, for Kabuki Theater: Timelessness
in a Changing Japan, will study in Japan.
Bert
Scruggs, a graduate student in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies,
for Discursive Space and Identity in Early Modern Taiwanese Literature,
will study in Taiwan and Japan.
Distance Learning
Graduates
The
first Penn Distance Learning Graduates from St. Jude's
Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee graduated from Penn October 2. Janet
Deatrick, Wendy Hobbie and Carol Ladden went to Memphis
for the presentation of their diplomas.
PRESIDENTIAL
APPOINTMENT | ROYAL SOCIETY | POOL
AWARD | NEBRIJA PRIZE | SMITHSONIAN
COMISSION | SEAS DISTINGUISHED RESEARCH |
CAPUTTO AWARD | NEH GRANT |
CHOP PHYSICIAN IN CHIEF | VETERINARY
HONORS | WW SMITH CHAIR PEDIATRIC GENOMICS
| UPHS 'MOST WIRED' | NURSING
HONORS | SEAS PENDER AWARD |
ISHIB TRUSTEE | AAGBA HONOR | LEADERSHIP
AWARD | 2 MORE FULBRIGHTS |
DISTANCE LEARNING GRADS
Almanac, Vol. 48, No. 7, October 9, 2001
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ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS:
Tuesday,
October 9, 2001
Volume 48 Number 7
www.upenn.edu/almanac/
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