TO:                 Members of the Faculty Senate
FROM:            Vivian L. Gadsden, Chair
SUBJECT:      Senate Nominating Committee 2023

1.  In accordance with the requirements of the Faculty Senate Rules, notice is given to the Senate membership of the Senate Executive Committee’s nine-member slate of nominees for the 2023 Nominating Committee. The Nominating Committee’s function is to nominate candidates for appointments to all committees and positions for which the Faculty Senate has responsibility in appointing. The Nominating Committee consists of nine members: the Chair, Chair-Elect, and Past Chair, three incumbent members of the Senate Executive Committee, and three members of the Faculty Senate selected by the constituency representatives of the Senate Executive Committee.  The nominees, all of whom have agreed to serve, are:

• William Braham (Professor of Architecture; Faculty Senate Past Chair)
• Warren Breckman (Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History; Senate Executive Committee Member)
• Tulia Falleti (Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science; Faculty Senate Chair-Elect)
• Vivian Gadsden (William T. Carter Professor of Child Development and Education; Faculty Senate Chair)
• Maria Geffen (Associate Professor of Otorhinolaryngology, Neuroscience and Neurology)
• Vera Krymskaya (Professor of Medicine; Senate Executive Committee Member)
• Claire Mitchell (Professor of Dental Medicine; Senate Executive Committee Member)
• Emily Steinlight (Associate Professor of English)
• Shu Yang (Joseph Bordogna Professor of Materials Science and Engineering)

2.  Pursuant to the rules, additional nominations may be submitted by petition containing at least 25 signed names and the signed approval of the candidate. All such petitions must be received by Tuesday, March 28, 2023.  If no additional nominations are received, the slate nominated by the Executive Committee will be declared elected. If additional nominations are received, an email ballot will be distributed to the Faculty Senate membership. Please forward any nominations-by-petition via email to the Faculty Senate office, senate@pobox.upenn.edu.  Questions may be directed to Patrick Walsh by email to the address above or by telephone at (215) 898-6943.