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September 9, 2014, Volume 61, No. 04 |
Lifetime Achievement Award: Dr. Allen
Anita Allen, the Vice Provost for Faculty at Penn and the Law School’s Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, received the Electronic Privacy Information Center’s (EPIC) Lifetime Achievement Award.
Dr. Allen, described by EPIC as “the nation’s leading privacy scholar,” has written and lectured widely on privacy law and ethics. EPIC is an independent non-profit research center based in Washington, DC focusing on privacy, freedom of expression, democratic values, and pursues a wide range of program activities including public education, litigation and advocacy concerning the future of the Internet, according to the group’s website.
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Woman in Medicine Award: Dr. Delivoria-Papadopoulos
Maria Delivoria-Papadopoulos, professor emerita of pediatrics and physiology in the Perelman School of Medicine, is the recipient of the Woman in Medicine Award from the Trust Fund of the Alumnae/i Association of WMC/MCP. The award is given annually to a female physician, scientist or staff member, preferably at the Drexel University College of Medicine, to recognize her leadership, teaching of students, care of patients and status as a role model for women in medicine.
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Zoo Board: Dr. Hendricks
Joan C. Hendricks, the Gilbert S. Kahn Dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine, was reelected to the Philadelphia Zoo’s Board as a vice chair. The Philadelphia Zoo has focused on educating the public about exotic animals, promoting and participating in worldwide conservation efforts for endangered wildlife and providing exceptional recreational opportunities for families.
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Sphinx Senior Society Awards
At its annual Spring Banquet, the Sphinx Senior Society inducted Dr. Eduardo D. Glandt, Nemirovsky Family Dean of Penn’s School of Engineering & Applied Science, as its 2014 Honorary Sphinx member.
The oldest Penn student leadership society founded in 1900 also bid farewell to the Sphinx Class of 2014, welcomed the new Sphinx Class of 2015 and awarded the 2014 Paul Miller Leadership Award to Dau Jok, C’14. The Sphinx Senior Society Board of Governors established the Paul Miller Leadership Award to honor the memory of the late Paul Miller, C’83, a former scribe of the Sphinx Senior Society, Commissioner on the Equal Employment Opportunity commission, 1994-2004 and Penn trustee (Almanac November 2, 2010). Mr. Jok received the Paul Miller Leadership Award for his outstanding campus and public service leadership as two-time captain of the Men’s Basketball team and founder of the Dau Jok Youth Foundation, a non-profit organization fighting poverty and violence in post-conflict South Sudan through access to sports and academics.
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Nursing Dean’s Medal: Co-founders of Jonas Center
Barbara and Donald Jonas, co-founders of the Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare, are the recipients of the Dean’s Medal for Distinguished Service in the School of Nursing. Presented last spring, the medal is one of the School’s highest external awards. It is presented at the dean’s discretion to individuals or organizations that have had a profound influence on Penn Nursing, the profession of nursing or the field of health through philanthropy, volunteerism, scholarship or advocacy.
The Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare was honored for its support of nursing scholars, particularly those in the doctoral programs. It is a leading national philanthropic funder dedicated to improving healthcare by advancing nursing scholarship, leadership and innovation. The Jonas Nurse Leaders Scholars Program provides scholarships to support nurses pursuing PhDs and DNPs. Building on this model, in 2012, the Jonas Veterans Healthcare Program was created to address veterans’ pressing, often life-altering health issues by expanding the field of qualified caregivers through scholarships to doctoral nursing candidates. Today, these programs comprise nearly 600 Jonas Scholars at 110 schools, including 12 scholars at Penn Nursing.
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Pew Center Grant: Penn IUR
The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage (the Center), has awarded a $72,000 grant to the Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR) and curators Ken Lum, A. Will Brown and Paul M. Farber for a project titled “Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia.” The project will explore the questions: What is the ideal monument for the current City of Philadelphia and what does a 21st century urban monument look like?
The centerpiece of the project will be a temporary monument designed by the late, PennDesign professor Terry Adkins (Almanac February 18, 2014), to be installed in City Hall’s central courtyard. Professor Adkins’ monument addresses the traumatic wave of Philadelphia school closings that occurred in 2013. This project will precede a planned Philadelphia monument festival, to take place in 2016 or 2017.
The project will be co-curated by Ken Lum, professor of fine arts and director of fine arts undergraduate program in PennDesign; A. Will Brown, curatorial assistant of contemporary art at the RISD Museum in Providence, RI; and Paul M. Farber, postdoctoral writing fellow at Haverford College and scholar of American and urban studies.
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Guest Scholar: Professor Matero
Frank Matero, professor of architecture in PennDesign’s department of historic preservation, was named a guest scholar in the Conservation Guest Scholar Program at the Getty Conservation Institute. The program supports new ideas and perspectives in the field of conservation, with an emphasis on the visual arts (including sites, buildings, objects) and the theoretical underpinnings of the field.
The program also provides an opportunity for scholarly research in an interdisciplinary manner across traditional boundaries in areas of interest to the international conservation community. Professor Matero will complete his research on the conservation of the architectural surface and the publication of a critical reader on the subject.
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SEAS Staff Award: Ms. Revell
Tonya Revell, manager in Computing and Educational Technology Services, received the 2014 SEAS Staff Recognition Award, the highest award for staff members in Penn Engineering. The award was presented in the summer by Eduardo Glandt, Nemirovsky Family Dean.
Ms. Revell has been a member of the Penn community for over 30 years. There were numerous letters and notes of praise received on her behalf and in all there were reoccurring remarks about her calm professionalism, dedication and her ability to deliver results.
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Distinguished Career: Professor Rykwert
Joseph Rykwert, Paul Philippe Cret Professor Emeritus of Architecture in PennDesign and professor of art history in SAS, was named a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth—a centuries-old honor recognizing people of outstanding merit. He was honored for his services to architecture.
Professor Rykwert was also named winner of the Jean Tschumi Prize for Architectural Criticism and Education from the International Union of Architects (UIA). UIA described Professor Rykwert as “is one of the most influential theoreticians of his generation. For more than 60 years, his erudition and his innovative scholarship have radically changed the relationship that architects have with the past, their conception of space and their perceptions of buildings and cities.”
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Pew Fellow: Mr. Wahl
Brent Wahl, senior lecturer of photography and fine arts in PennDesign, has been named a 2014 Pew Fellow by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, which comes with a $60,000 award. Mr. Wahl uses photography as a tool for documentation as well as abstraction, building images that play with concepts of space, dimensionality and illusion to push the boundaries of what a photograph can be.
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Honorary Degrees for Psychology & Biology Professors
Professor of biology Dorothy Cheney and professor of psychology Robert Seyfarth received honorary doctorates from the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland, while professor emeritus of psychology Jacob Nachmias received an honorary doctorate from the SUNY College of Optometry.
Working together, Drs. Cheney and Seyfarth have contributed to the understanding of communication and social behavior in non-human primates. To do so, they have employed especially careful long-term observational field studies, most recently with free-ranging baboons in the Okavango Delta, Botswana.
Dr. Nachmias’s honorary degree from SUNY honored him as “a leader in developing the modern understanding of spatial vision” over his long career. His research includes sensation and perception.
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Penn Medicine Hospitals Top Rankings Locally and Nationally
Penn Medicine hospitals have been ranked among the top ten hospitals in the nation, and once again named #1 in the Philadelphia area by US News & World Report. With the newly combined results for the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Penn Medicine is ranked as the 7th best hospital in the United States in the 2014-2015 annual “Best Hospitals” survey by US News.
Out of nearly 5,000 hospitals analyzed nationwide, Penn Medicine is among only 17 institutions named to the publication’s Honor Roll, a distinction that “signals both rare breadth and rare depth of medical excellence,” according to the magazine’s editors.
Penn Medicine hospitals are the only ones in the Philadelphia region to make the 2014-2015 Honor Roll.
In addition to Penn Medicine hospitals being ranked #1 in the Philadelphia area, Pennsylvania Hospital was ranked #6 and Chester County Hospital, the University of Pennsylvania Health System’s newest member hospital, was ranked #17 in the region.
Penn Medicine’s rankings in 10 different specialties also rose, with eight areas named to the top 10 programs in the nation, including gastroenterology, ear, nose & throat (ENT), geriatrics, gynecology, cardiology and heart surgery, neurology and neurosurgery, pulmonology and urology.
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AAA Four-Diamond: Inn at Penn
For the 14th consecutive year, the Inn at Penn has received the AAA Four-Diamond rating. Only five percent of the more than 29,000 hotels approved by AAA make the Four Diamond list.
To be awarded AAA Four Diamond, a hotel must offer accommodations which are progressively more refined and stylish than a standard property. The physical attributes of the building must reflect an obvious enhanced level of quality throughout. The fundamental hallmarks at this level include an extensive array of amenities combined with a high degree of hospitality, service and attention to detail. Being ranked as a AAA Four Diamond property showcases the Inn at Penn’s dedication to all areas of hotel and travel services.
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Seltzer Family Digital Media Awards
Thanks to the generosity of alumnus Jeff Seltzer, W’78, and his wife Annie, the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is proud to announce the six winners of the 2014 Seltzer Family Digital Media Awards: Leah Davidson, Kerry Huang, Rafiat Kasumu, Nilesh Kavthekar, Jose Romero and Andre Rosario.
The annual Seltzer Awards recognize and support creative use of new media technologies by Penn undergraduate students for academic research projects. Each student will have exclusive use of $1,000 of technology for one year to cover equipment such as video cameras, still cameras and audio recorders.
This is the seventh year that the Seltzer Family Digital Media Awards have supported specific student projects. The awards are managed by the Penn Libraries in collaboration with the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships (CURF). Below are details about the five funded projects.
Leah Davidson, W’16, will explore social entrepreneurship in Peru and India under the guidance of Ian MacMillan, the Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the director of the Sol N. Snider Entrepreneurial Research Center in the Wharton School. In Huancayo, Peru, she will collaborate with Blue Sparrow, a non-governmental organization that provides low-interest loans and free consulting services to entrepreneurs. In Chennai, Bangalore and Delhi, she will explore various models of making finance accessible to rural populations. She plans to use a digital SLR camera to document the similarities and differences between the small business landscapes in these two countries.
Under the direction of Saikat Chaudhuri, adjunct associate professor of management and executive director of the Mack Institute for Innovation Management in the Wharton School, Kerry Huang, W’16, and Nilesh Kavthekar, W’16, E’16, will document the lives of Penn graduates involved in startups. The students will visit office headquarters of several start-ups to conduct audio and video interviews for a blog that will reveal insights into the graduates’ experiences with entrepreneurship.
Rafiat Kasumu, C’15, will create a photo-documentary and short film focused on the internal development of 21 undergraduates throughout the community-based impact service learning program called Penn’s International Development Summer Institute (IDSI), under the guidance of Marton Markovits, a former postdoctoral researcher at the Lauder Institute and a lecturer in the department of political science and the Center for African Studies. While traveling throughout Ghana, she will hold a series of interviews with program participants to gage their perspective of what “international development” means, what they believe their role is in it and how the IDSI program has shaped their idea of it.
With supervision from John Jackson, Jr., dean of the School of Social Policy & Practice, Jose Romero, C’15, will capture GPS tagged oral histories and footage of Latin@ farm workers working in Eastern Washington State for his thesis research. He will interweave this material with relevant indigenous and diaspora scholarship to unsettle the presumed legibility of place in mass standardized maps and will offer multimedia and embodied alternatives to food reforms that essentialize a particular food or diet.
Working under the direction of Julie Fairman, Nightingale Professor of Nursing and director of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, Andre Rosario, N’16, will conduct oral history interviews with Filipino nurses who immigrated to the US and also advanced their education to become nurse practitioners. He will capture audio recordings to contribute to his senior research inquiry. |
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