Pursuant to the Faculty Senate Rules, formal notification to members may be accomplished by publication in Almanac. The following is published under that rule.

TO: Members of the Faculty Senate

FROM: José A. Bauermeister, Chair, Nominating Committee

SUBJECT: Senate Nominations 2020-2021

1. In accordance with the Faculty Senate Rules, official notice is given of the Senate Nominating Committee’s slate of nominees for the incoming Senate Officers. The nominees, all of whom have indicated their willingness to serve, are:

Chair-elect:

• William Braham (Weitzman)

Secretary-elect:

• Catherine McDonald (Nursing)

At-large Members of the Senate Executive Committee: to serve a 3-year term beginning upon election:

• Mary Regina Boland (PSOM/Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics)
• Donita Brady (PSOM/Cancer Biology)
• Rose Nolen-Walston (Veterinary Medicine)
• Emily Steiner (SAS/English)

Assistant Professor Member of the Senate Executive Committee: to serve a 2-year term beginning upon election:

• Cesar de la Fuente (PSOM/Psychiatry)

Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility: to serve a 3-year term beginning upon election:

• Geoffrey Aguirre (PSOM/Neurology)
• Sigal Ben-Porath (GSE)
• Christopher Marcinkoski (Weitzman)
• Raina Merchant (PSOM/Emergency Medicine)

Senate Committee on Economic Status of the Faculty: to serve a 3-year term beginning upon election:

• Shawn Bird (PSOM/Neurology)
• Eric Clemons (Wharton)
• Graciela Gonzalez Hernandez (PSOM/Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics)
• Melissa Sanchez (SAS/English)

2. Again in accord with the Senate Rules you are invited to submit additional nominations, which shall be accomplished via petitions containing at least twenty-five valid names and the signed approval of the candidate. All such petitions must be received no later than fourteen days subsequent to the circulation of the nominees of the Nominating Committee. Petitions must be received by email to the Faculty Senate, senate@pobox.upenn.edu by 5 p.m. EDT on Monday, May 4, 2020.

3. Under the same provision of the Senate Rules, if no additional nominations are received, the slate nominated by the Nominating Committee will be declared elected.