Bhuvnesh Jain Appointed Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Natural Sciences

Bhuvnesh Jain has been appointed the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Natural Sciences in the School of Arts and Sciences. Jain joined Penn’s Department of Physics and Astronomy in 2001. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including a Cottrell Scholars award and a Keck Science and Engineering Grant.

Jain co-directs the School of Arts and Sciences’ Center for Particle Cosmology. He is co-coordinator of the gravitational lensing groups of two international projects: the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). DES, an international collaboration involving scientists from 23 institutions, will begin its observations from Chile in the fall of 2012. Jain has authored nearly 100 articles on gravitational lensing, galaxies and cosmology.

The Kahn endowed term chairs were established through a bequest by Mr. and Mrs. Edmund J. Kahn. The couple supported many programs and projects in the University including Van Pelt Library, the Modern Languages College House, and other initiatives in scholarship and the humanities.

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