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: Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez, Chair, Nominating Committee
SUBJECT: Senate Nominations 2021-2022

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:

• Vivian Gadsden (GSE)

Secretary-elect:

• Daniel Gillion (SAS/Political Science)

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

• José Bauermeister (Nursing)
• Mark Oyama (Veterinary Medicine)
• Benjamin Pierce (SEAS/Computer and Information Science)
• Ann Farnsworth-Alvear (SAS/History)

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

• Pilar Gonalons-Pons (SAS/Sociology)
• Katharine Rendle (PSOM/Family Medicine and Community Health)

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

• Jean Galbraith (Law)
• Rebecca Hubbard (PSOM/Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics)
• Flavia Vitale (PSOM/Neurology)
• Daniel Wodak (SAS/Philosophy)

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

• Tulia Falleti (SAS/Political Science)
• Mark Oyama (Veterinary Medicine)
• Rand Quinn (GSE)

Also in accordance with the Faculty Senate Rules, members 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 after circulation of the nominees from the Nominating Committee by email to the Faculty Senate, senate@pobox.upenn.edu. This year, that deadline is 5 p.m. EDT on Monday, May 24, 2021.

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