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APS:
Dr. Kuklick
Dr.
Bruce Kuklick, the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols
Professor of American History, has been elected to
membership in the American Philosophical Society.
Dr. Kuklick has written eight books on topics as
wide-ranging as American scholars of the Near East,
baseball and the history of philosophy. He is currently
working on a book examining the ways in which scholars
have understood war and the influence they have had
on diplomacy. The Philosophical Society was founded
in Philadelphia in 1743 and counts among it's past
members, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas
Jefferson, Charles Darwin and Marie Curie. Dr. Kuklick
is the 12th member of the SAS faculty to be elected
a member of APS.
Biophysical
Society: Dr.
Franzini-Armstrong
Dr.
Clara Franzini-Armstrong, professor of cell and
developmental biology, has been elected to serve
a two-year term on the executive board of the Biophysical
Society. The Society publishes the Biophysical
Journal, and promotes careers in the field of
biosphysics. It was founded in 1956 and currently
has nearly 7,000 members.
Honorary
Degree: Dr. Hackney
Dr.
Sheldon Hackney, professor of history, and emeritus
president of Penn, received an Honorary Doctor of
Humanities from Muhlenberg College in Allentown on
May 23. Dr. Hackney, the former chairman of the National
Endowment for the Humanities under President Clinton,
was also the commencement speaker for the 156th Commencement
Ceremony at Muhlenberg College.
AAIEP:
Dr. Billmyer
Dr.
Kristine Billmyer, director of English Language
Programs, has been selected as the next president
of the American Association of Intensive English
Programs (AAIEP). As director of the ELP, Dr.
Billmyer has taught and designed a number of English-as-a-second-language
courses, organized the first group of evening program
courses, designed and coordinated the English Language
and Cultural Perspectives Program for the Joseph
H. Lauder Institute of Management and International
Studies, and led a major reform of the ELP's Intensive
Program curriculum. In addition, she
is an adjunct professor at GSE with research interests
in cross-cultural variation in language use and the
acquisition of sociolinguistic competence by second
language learners. AAIEP is the country's largest
professional association for intensive English language
programs and practitioners.
Critical
Writing Teaching Fellowships
The
following are the recipients of the 2004-2005 Critical
Writing Teaching Fellowships:
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Eli
Alberts, East Asian Languages & Civilizations,
GAS '09
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Ari
Blatt, Romance Languages, GAS '04
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K.
Dillon Brown, English, GAS '09
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Rachel
Buurma, English, GAS '09
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Kyle
Farley, History, GAS '04
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Paja
Faudree, Religious Studies, GAS '04
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Alexine
Fleck, English, GAS '05
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Sandra
Grady, Folklore and Folklife, GAS'06
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Shaman
Hatley, Religious Studies, GAS '06
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Miriam
Jacobson, English, GAS '04
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John
Lessard, English, GAS '05
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Erica
Miller, Romance Languages, GAS '10
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Lauren
Nauta, History, GAS '05
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Daniel
Party, Music, GAS '10
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Grant
Potts, Religious Studies, GAS '09
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Annie
Rosemurgy, Anthropology, GAS '05
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Jessica
Rosenfeld, English, GAS '09
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Natasha
Ruiz-Gomez, History of Art, GAS
'08
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Mary
Beth Wetli, Germanic Languages & Literature,
GAS '10
Annenberg
Teaching Award
Lee
Humphreys, a graduate student in the Annenberg
School for Communication, has been awarded this year's
James D. Woods Award for graduate student teaching.
The award is given in recognition of outstanding
teaching by an Annenberg graduate student and is
presented by the undergraduate Communication Society.
The President's Award for Undergraduate Research
Initiated by Dr. Judith Rodin, the President's Award recognizes "the
best of the best" of undergraduate research at Penn.
The Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships
announced that the recipients were selected by a
faculty committee from 75 papers and projects already
chosen for departmental distinction. The President's
Award brings with it a $1,000 honorarium as well
as publication in Res, Penn's new journal
devoted to undergraduate research.
Natalia Adler, C '04; advisor: Dr. Lydie Moudileno; Postmodernisme
et Feminisme dans le Contexte Antillais: Une Analyse
Litteraire d'Amour de Marie Chauvet
Andria Bibiloni, C '04; advisor: Dr. Julie Schneider; Grandma, Grandpa,
Mom and Home
Emily Blumenthal, C '04; advisor: Dr. Sheldon Hackney; Facing the
Music: Songs by American Soldiers in the Vietnam
War, 1961-1973
Jennifer Burgess, C '04; advisor: Dr. Carlos Alonso; La Literatura
Postdictatorial de Chile y Argentina: Carlson,
Timerman, Traba y Strejilevich
Sean Cusack, SEAS '04, Joyce Tam, SEAS '04; Eiji Takizawa,
SEAS '04; advisor: Dr. Talid R. Sinno; The Production
of Silicon Wafers Through the Use of the Czochralski
Growth Process
Terri Ginsberg, C '04; advisor: Dr. Thomas Childers; Profile of Courage:
The Story of Simone Weil Lipman
Alistair Green, C '04; advisor: Dr. Lee Cassanelli; Noble Capitalism:
An Analysis of the Prosperity of the Murid Tariqa
in Senegal
Lynn Huang, C '04; advisor: Dr. Max Cavitch; Between Manuscripts
and Print: George Gascoigne as the Professional
Poet
Justin Hulbert, C '04; advisors: Dr. Lila Gleitman, Dr. Anna Papafragou; The
Role of Scene and Syntax in Mental Verb Learning
Philip Labo, C '04; Advisor: Dr. David Roos; A Cross-platform
Comparison of Malaria Gene Expression Date Sets
Kate Lehman, C '04; Advisor: Dr. Rogers Smith; The Bush Administration,
Foreign Aid, and the Motives Behind the Millennium
Challenge Account
Erica Miao, C '05; advisor: Dr. Vicki Mahaffey; The Uninterrupted
Journey: Punctuation and Parenthesis in Virginia
Woolf's To the Lighthouse
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Almanac, Vol. 50, No.
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May 25, 2004
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