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November 20, 2007, Vol. 54 No. 13 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Tuesday November 20, 2007 Volume 54 Number 13 www.upenn.edu/almanac From the President, Provost and Executive Vice President $70 Million Design Technology Package from PACE Consortium The School of Engineering and Applied Sci- Safety and Security at Penn ence (SEAS) at the University of Pennsylvania As you may be aware, Philadelphia, like many other large cities, has experienced an increase in crime. will receive an in-kind hardware and software While Penn has successfully countered the impact of these pressures in our campus community, we have contribution totaling approximately $70 million recently experienced two serious incidents of crime, including a reported sexual assault in an off-campus in commercial value from Partners for the Ad- apartment building. These incidents underline the importance of the University remaining ever vigilant in vancement of Collaborative Engineering Educa- all our efforts to ensure the safety of our students, faculty and staff, which is a fundamental priority. tion (PACE), a consortium comprised of Gener- Two years ago, we announced a comprehensive initiative to enhance the safety of our campus and al Motors, EDS, Hewlett Packard, Siemens PLM surrounding community. At that time, we committed $5 million to implement a series of measures to Software, Sun Microsystems and academic part- strengthen safety and security. These included the addition of both uniformed and plain-clothes po- ners chosen for their focus on engineering. lice officers and security guards to street patrol during the evening and early morning hours, both on Penn’s Department of Mechanical Engineer- campus and in the surrounding community, and a significant expansion of lighting and other security- ing and Applied Mechanics will receive com- related technology. These measures remain in place today and they have proven effective. prehensive modeling and simulation tools avail- Nevertheless, the recent incidents near Penn are unacceptable, and we are supplementing our cur- able to PACE companies, which will be used rent measures with additional safety initiatives, especially in the area west of our campus where many to support a departmental campaign to intensi- of our students live. Where appropriate, we are working with local area landlords in these efforts. fy the design content in the engineering curricu- The additional measures include: lum and to help launch a new integrated product • Additional police overtime hours to supplement the already high level of police and security patrols; • The installation of new CCTV cameras between 40th and 43rd Streets; design program. Projects will include research • A new lighting program to increase pedestrian lighting on and off campus; into the design of more efficient factories, hy- • Three new transit stops: two on the western boundaries of campus and one on the eastern side; brid vehicles and artificial heart valves. • A new late night pilot shuttle service for those who live in Center City developed with input from “The PACE laboratory will infuse state-of- our graduate and professional student association. the-art computer-aided design, modeling and We also are working closely with our city leaders, including incoming Mayor Michael Nutter, analysis tools into the curriculum, making it eas- who made improved public safety a cornerstone of his campaign. ier for students at all levels to incorporate com- We encourage our students, faculty and staff to continue to use the numerous safety resources plex engineering models into the design pro- available to them. Details can be found at www.publicsafety.upenn.edu. cess,” said Dr. Vijay Kumar, chair of mechanical —Amy Gutmann, President engineering and applied mechanics at SEAS. —Ron Daniels, Provost The PACE program is an alliance to develop —Craig Carnaroli, Executive Vice President the automotive Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) team of the future through the integration Hirschmann-Makineni Professor of Chemistry: Gary Molander of parametric-based tools in design, engineer- Dr. Gary Molander has been appointed the Hirschmann-Makineni ing, and manufacturing curricula. PACE soft- Professor of Chemistry, SAS Dean Rebecca Bushnell announced. ware includes UGS NXTM, UGS Teamcenter Dr. Molander joined Penn’s chemistry faculty in 1999. His research Engineering, UGS Teamcenter Community and interests focus on the development of new methods for organic synthe- UGS Tecnomatix; MSC Adams and MD Nas- sis and natural-product synthesis. A major focus of his research has been tran; Altair HyperWorks; and FLUENT/GAM- the application of organolanthanide reagents and catalysts to selective BIT. The applications provide support for con- organic synthesis. More recently, he has been involved in the devel- cept development, product engineering, simula- opment of organotrifluoroborates. More than 200 research papers have tion, supply-chain management and digital col- emanated from his research program. laboration among research peers. He has received several honors for his research and teaching, in- PACE is a joint philanthropic initiative begun cluding an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Arthur C. Cope in 1999 to support academic institutions world- Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society as well as the so- wide by contributing computer-based engineer- ciety’s Philadelphia Section Award and Penn’s Lindback Award for Dis- ing tools to prepare designers, engineers and an- tinguished Teaching. He has been a visiting scholar at many universities alysts with the skills to compete in the future. around the world. Currently, he is secretary/treasurer of the Division of The PACE consortium has 43 universities Organic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society. In 2001 he was around the world. The PACE Partnership also Gary Molander the executive director for the 37th National Organic Symposium, and in extends to institutions in Australia, Canada, 2004-2006 he served as a director of the Philadelphia Section of the American Chemical Society. China, Germany, Mexico and Sweden. Dr. Molander has been on the editorial advisory boards of Organometallics, Tetrahedron, Tetrahedron For PACE information go to www.pacepart- Letters and Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry and has served as a volume editor for Science of Synthe- ners.org. For information on Penn’s engineering sis. He is an associate editor of Organic Letters and an executive editor of the Encyclopedia of Reagents for efforts go to www.me.upenn.edu/~pacelab. Organic Synthesis. He will serve on the editorial advisory board of Science of Synthesis beginning in 2009. IN THIS ISSUE The Hirschmann-Makineni Professorship in Chemistry was established by Rao Makineni in 1993 2 Senate: SEC Agenda, Aristotle’s Brain; in honor of National Medal of Science recipient Dr. Ralph Hirschmann, who was the first holder of this Dr. McMurtry Stepping Down as VP; endowed professorship. Dr. Hirschmann is currently an emeritus research professor at Penn. Italian-American Filmmaker Conference 3 Honors & Other Things Before coming to Penn in 1987, Dr. Hirschmann was senior vice president for basic research at Mer- 4 Council: State of the University—Report of Provost ck & Co., Inc., where he had worked since 1950. He also had a concurrent appointment as professor of 5 Council: Mental Health Issues; Rules Governing biomedical research at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. He received an AB from Final Examinations; Penn Children’s Center 6 HR Programs; Penn’s Way Raffle; Volunteer Oberlin College in 1943, served in the US Army during World War II, and then received a PhD from the Opportunities; One Step Ahead: Security & Privacy Tip University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1950. He has written more than 160 papers and holds 100 patents. 7 Update; Thanksgiving Safety Checks; CrimeStats; His early work at Merck led to the discovery of stereoselective control of chemical transformations, an Classifieds; Penn Dining Deals important concept in organic chemistry. At Penn, Dr. Hirschmann initiated collaborative research in the 8 Talk About Teaching and Learning Pullouts: December AT PENN (continued on page 2) Holidays—Penn-style ALMANAC November 20, 2007 www.upenn.edu/almanac Chemistry (continued from page ) SENATE From the Senate Chair field of peptidomimetics, which has clarified rela- tionships between chemical structure and biolog- ical function via collaborations with biologists in The following agenda is published in accordance with Faculty Senate Rules. the pharmaceutical industry. Any member of the standing faculty can attend SEC meetings and observe. In addition to the National Medal of Science, Questions may be directed to Sue White, executive assistant to the Senate Office either by telephone at (25) 898-6943, or by e-mail at [email protected]. his honors include the National Academy of Sci- ences’ Award for the Industrial Application of Science, the American Chemical Society’s Ar- thur C. Cope Medal and Edward E. Smissman Faculty Senate Executive Committee Agenda Bristol-Myers Squibb Award, and many more. Wednesday, November 28, 2007 Rao Makineni was born in Andhra, India. He 2:30-5 p.m. received his undergraduate training at the Chris- Note: Start time will be 2:30 for this meeting tian College in 1952. Four years later he was awarded the degree of Associate of the Royal Please Note Meeting Room: Room 240B, Silverman Hall, Law School College of Science and Technology at the Uni- 3400 Chestnut Street versity of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. 1. Faculty
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