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Senate Nominating Committee 2017

SENATE From the Senate Chair

TO:              Members of the Faculty Senate

FROM:       Laura Perna, Chair

SUBJECT: Senate Nominating Committee 2017

1. In accordance with the requirements of the Faculty Senate Bylaws, notice is given to the Senate Membership of the Senate Executive Committee’s nine-member slate of nominees for the Nominating Committee for 2017. The Nominating Committee nominates candidates for election to the Offices of the Faculty Senate, to the At-Large and Assistant Professor positions on the Senate Executive Committee, to the Senate Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty and to the Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility. The nine nominees, all of whom have agreed to serve, are:

Joshua Atkins (Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at HUP, Perelman School of Medicine)

Vaneeta Bamba (Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine)

Jere Behrman (William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences)

Cynthia Connolly (Associate Professor, School of Nursing)

Beverly Emanuel (Charles E.H. Upham Professor of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine)

Raghuram Iyengar (Associate Professor of Marketing, Wharton School)

Susan Margulies (Professor of Bioengineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science)

Robert Ricciardi (Chair and Professor, Department of Microbiology, Penn Dental School)

Reed Pyeritz (William Smilow Professor of Medicine & Professor of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine)

2. Pursuant to the Bylaws, 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 December 6, 2016. If no additional nominations are received, the slate nominated by the Executive Committee will be declared elected. If additional nominations are received, a mail ballot will be distributed to the Faculty Senate membership. Please forward any nominations by petition via intramural mail to the Faculty Senate, Box 9 College Hall/6303. Please forward any questions to Patrick Walsh by email at senate@pobox.upenn.edu or by telephone at (215) 898-6943.

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