2020
Two From Penn Arts & Sciences Named 2020 Schwarzman Scholars
Yixi (Cecilia) Wang, C’20, W’20, and Annie Sun, C’19, have received the Schwarzman Scholarship, which funds a one-year master’s degree in global affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Simone White Named Stephen M. Gorn Family Assistant Professor
Simone White has been named the Stephen M. Gorn Family Assistant Professor of English.
Two Faculty Receive Creative Capital Awards
Simone White, Assistant Professor of English, and Marc Anthony Richardson, Lecturer in Creative Writing, have each been chosen for a 2021 Creative Capital Award.
Marie Gottschalk Named Edmund J. Kahn Distinguished Professor
The Professor of Political Science is a widely acclaimed scholar of American politics
Fels Event Explored Conducting Elections in Challenging Times
An expert panel discussed the unprecedented challenges faced by election officials around the country due to both the global pandemic and misinformation cast on the legitimacy and security of mail-in ballots.
College Alum and Student Awarded 2021 Marshall Scholarships
Annah Chollet, C'21, and Yareqzy (Yary) Munoz , C'20, will pursue graduate education in the U.K.
Grammy Nomination for Album Featuring Music by James Primosch
James Primosch, Dr. Robert Weiss Professor of Music, composed the music for Catharge, recorded by The Crossing and nominated for Best Choral Performance.
Fernández-Villaverde and Krueger Elected Fellows of Econometric Society
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Professor and Graduate Chair of Economics, and Dirk Krueger, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics, have been elected fellows of the Econometric Society.
Renata Holod Receives the MESA Mentoring Award
Renata Holod, professor emerita of history of art and curator of the Near East section of the Penn Museum, is the recipient of the 2020 Mentoring Award from the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). The MESA Mentoring Award was established in 1995 and first given at MESA’s 1996 annual meeting. The award recognizes exceptional contributions retired faculty have made to the education and training of others.
Alex Breitweiser Receives IBM Ph.D. Fellowship
Breitweiser is a graduate student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
College Graduate Mackenzie Fierceton Awarded Rhodes Scholarship
Mackenzie Fierceton, C'20, has been awarded a 2021 Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford.
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw Named Class of 1940 Bicentennial Term Chair
Penn's Provost and Vice Provost for Faculty have announced the appointment of Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Associate Professor of History of Art., to the Class of 1940 Bicentennial Term Chair.
Music Graduate Students Receive Awards at 2020 American Musicological Society Conference
Maria Ryan and Xintong (Bess) Liu were awarded fellowships for their research projects.
Three Criminology Faculty Awarded
They were recognized by the 2020 Division of Experimental Criminology and Academy of Experimental Criminology Awards.
Lynn Meskell Appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor
Meskell, a world-renowned archaeologist, is the Richard D. Green University Professor.
Yoichiro Mori Named Calabi-Simons Professor
Yoichiro Mori, who recently joined Penn as Professor of Mathematics and Biology, has been appointed Calabi-Simons Professor in Mathematics and Biology.
Yue Hou Named Bers Assistant Professor
Yue Hou has been named the Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences.
Sonal Khullar Named W. Norman Brown Professor
Sonal Khullar has joined Penn’s Department of History of Art as W. Norman Brown Associate Professor of South Asian Studies.
Laura J. Alber, C'90, and Ned Klingelhofer Endow Professorship
The gift creates the Alber-Klingelhofer Presidential Professorship.
Roberto Gonzales Appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor
Gonzales will hold joint appointments in the Department of Sociology and in the Graduate School of Education.
Joseph Subotnik Named American Physical Society Fellow
Joseph Subotnik, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Chemistry, has been named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).
Eleni Katifori Awarded an American Physical Society Early Career Award
The Katifori group's research seeks to uncover the physical principles behind the function and development of complex biological flow systems.
Gabriel Raeburn Receives Dissertation Grant
The Ph.D. candidate was awarded funds by the National Institute of Social Sciences.
Marsha Lester Named Browne Professor
Marsha I. Lester has been appointed the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Chemistry.
Alums Come Together to Establish Professorship
A $1.5 million gift creates the Arifa Hasan Ahmad and Nada Al Shoaibi Presidential Professorship.
Laurin Bixby Named Health Policy Research Scholar
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s leadership programs connect changemakers across the country.
Amy Offner Wins Inaugural Hunt Prize in International History
Amy Offner, Assistant Professor of History, has been awarded the inaugural Michael H. Hunt Prize in International History by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
Penn Professors Receive 2020 NYC Coalition for the Homeless Compassionate Community Award
Melissa E. Sanchez of Penn Arts & Sciences and Corrine Low of Wharton lead the Upper West Side Open Hearts Initiative.
Kane Shares in Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award
Charles Kane, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Physics, was honored for pioneering contributions that generated the field of topological insulators.
Christopher B. Murray Named Citation Laureate
Since the award’s inception in 2002, 54 Citation Laureates have gone on to receive a Nobel Prize.
Joan DeJean Named Fellow of the British Academy
DeJean, Trustee Professor of French, joins a cohort of exceptional scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
Machado Named Abrams Artist-In-Residence
Carmen Maria Machado has been named Abrams Artist-In-Residence in the Penn Arts & Sciences Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing.
Ishmail Abdus-Saboor Receives Grant from the Rita Allen Foundation
Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, Mitchell J. Blutt and Margo Krody Blutt Presidential Assistant Professor of Biology, has been named a member of the 2020 class of Award in Pain Scholars.
New Faculty Join Penn Arts & Sciences
The 20 new professors hold appointments across 11 departments.
Innovative Dual Degree Integrates Veterinary Medicine, Environmental Studies
The option is designed to prepare multi-disciplinary veterinarians to assume leadership roles within the environmental and public health sectors.
Guo Named Class of 1965 Term Professor of Biology
Wei Guo, Professor of Biology, has been appointed Class of 1965 Term Professor of Biology.
Primosch Named Dr. Robert Weiss Professor of Music
James Primosch, Professor of Music, has been appointed the Dr. Robert Weiss Professor of Music.
Jin K. Lee, C'92, and Jennifer Tod Lee Endow Professorship
The $1.5 million gift creates the Jin K. Lee Presidential Professorship.
Cole Named James Joo-Jin Kim Professor of Economics
Harold Cole has been appointed the James Joo-Jin Kim Professor of Economics.
Sorey Named Presidential Assistant Professor of Music
Tyshawn Sorey, who recently joined Penn as Assistant Professor of Music, has been named Presidential Assistant Professor of Music.
Emily Wilson Endows a Fund to Support Students
The Elsie Phare Fellowship will provide tuition support for a student from a group underrepresented in classical studies.
Megan Matthews Receives NIDA Avenir Award
These awards support researchers who represent the future of addiction science.
Philosophy's Scott Weinstein Receives the 2020 Association for Computational Linguistics Test-of-Time Award
Each year, the ACL Test-of-Time awards recognize up to four papers for their lasting impact on the computational linguistics field.
Anthropologist Deborah Thomas Awarded 2020 Gender Equity Award
In addition to honoring scholars who work against discrimination against women in anthropology, this award celebrates feminist scholars working to raise awareness of discrimination in anthropology on the grounds of gender presentation of any kind.
Allyson Mackey Named CIFAR Global Scholar
The Global Scholars program awards recipients with $100,000 in research support.
Barbara Savage Honored by University of Oxford
A new undergraduate prize named in her honor is awarded to the best thesis in Black history.
Judith Currano Named American Chemical Society Fellow
She was recognized as an international leader in chemical information.
Fang Named Joseph M. Cohen Term Professor of Economics
Hanming Fang has been appointed the Joseph M. Cohen Term Professor of Economics.
Dombrowski Named Shapiro-Weitzenhoffer Associate Professor of 19th Century European Art
André Dombrowski has been appointed Frances Shapiro-Weitzenhoffer Associate Professor of 19th Century European Art.
McDaniel Named Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor
Justin McDaniel has been named Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Religious Studies.