Volume 29, Number24 Publishedby the University of Pennsylvania Tuesday, March 8, 1983 IN BRIEF" For Distinguished Teaching: Ira Abrams Awards on Benefits: Response On page 2 of this issue, Dr. Vicki Mahaffey, assistant professor of winners will be inscribed on a plaque near the Provost Thomas Ehrlich to the Senate's responds English, and Dr. Frank Warner, professor of Dean's Office in College Hall. mail-ballot for restructured tuition preference mathematics, are the first recipients of the Ira benefits, and Vice President Gary Posner tells the Abrams Memorial Awards for Dr. on a leave this aca- the on A-I and A-3 Distinguished Mahaffey, scholarly impact of faculty change Established a from Ira demic at London, staffs' tuition benefits for children. Teaching. through gift year King's College, Eng- Abrams, a '31 graduate of the College, the land, has been working on a study of James awards were established last to honor the Trieste Years, scheduled for CGS Director Incoming FAS Dean Joel Conar- spring Joyce, comple- in the arts and sciences for their contri- tion this summer. She has roe has confirmed the fifth associate deanship for faculty published frequently the School of Arts and Sciences, with the an- butions to teaching. In addition to being cited on Joyce and T.S. Eliot. Dr. Mahaffey served nouncement that Dr. David Burnett will continue for intellectually challenging teaching, leading as the assistant chair ofthe English Department as Associate Dean forContinuing Education and to an informed understanding of a discipline, last year and spent two years as the resident Director of the College of General Studies. recipients ofthe award are expected to embody faculty fellow in Hill College House. Calling the continuing education program in SAS high standards of integrity and fairness, to have Dr. Warner is the undergraduate chair inthe one of the most imaginative and best adminis- a strong commitment to learning, and to be department of mathematics, a post healso held tered in the country, he said, "I am pleased that open to new ideas. from 1973-1976. He has published frequently David Burnett will stay on, and look forward to Each year two members of the standing or on curvature functions and forms. He has working with him for many years to come." associated faculty in the School of Arts and spent two summers as a visiting professor, at Sciences will be honored with an award of Rio de Janeiro in 1972 and at the University of Nobelists on Energy: In addition to having three $1000 and a certificate. The names of the Paris in 1975. Nobel laureates in the ceremonies opening the Center for History ofChemistryat Penn thisweek (right), the University will hear from four other Inauguration: Center for History of Chemistry Prize laureates this month. On March 22, ina free The University community is invited to join ter plans to discover and disseminate informa- public forum on "Energy: Our Most Pressing the celebration of the ofthe Cen- tion about historical resources, and Issue," Franklin Professor Lawrence R. inauguration encourage Benjamin ter for History of Chemistry March II. The scholarship and research in the history of Klein (economics) moderates a discussion with Center's inauguration coincides with the cele- chemistry and chemical engineering. Dr. Hans Albrecht Bethe of Cornell (physics), Dr. bration of the ofthe birth of S. Yalow of Veterans Administration 250th anniversary Three Nobel Laureates in Dr. Rosalyn the chemistry, in the Bronx and Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), English chem- Glenn T. Seaborg, Sir George Porter and Dr. Hospital (medicine physiology), ist who discovered nine ammo- and Dr. Eugene P. Wigner of Princeton gases including Christian Anfinsen, will attend an (physics) nia, sulfur dioxide and The Center- Honorary as guests. The forum is in Harrison Auditorium at oxygen. Degree Convocation, of the the firstof its kind in the world-is part inaugural the University Museum, 7 to 10 p.m., sponsored cosponsored program. President Sheldon Hackney and the of and the by SEAS, the Energy Educational Advisory by University Pennsylvania Fred Basolo, president ofthe American Chem- American Chemical The Cen- Council of Philadelphia Electric, and Scientists Society (ACS). ical Society, will preside overtheceremony. Dr. and Engineers for Secure Energy, Inc., a national Anlinsen, Johns Hopkins University, will speak educational organization of professional and re- at the convocation on The Internationalism of search scientists and engineers. Chemistry. Dr. Anfinsen (the 1972 recipient of the Nobel Prize) received his MA at Academic Calendar degree Under discussion at Coun- Penn in 1939 and an here in cil tomorrow will be a to the honorary degree proposal change 1973. Dr. of the 1951 academic calendar, inserting a full day of Drop! Seaborg, (the recipient Add before classes each semester, and tenta- Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of begin Sir Porter 1967 Nobel Prize tively inserting a long weekend (Thursday- plutonium), (the winner in and Dr. Charles Price Sunday) in mid-October in response to a request chemistry) from Dr. Samuel Fager, director of Student (emeritus professor and former chairman of Health, to mitigate increasing symptoms of stu- chemistry at Penn) will receive honorary doc- dent stress. With the proposal, Acting VPUL tor ofscience degrees. The Convocation will be George Koval presents a table showing holidays at 4:45 p.m. in the Rosenwald Gallery, 6th and breaks at other institutions, where "it is clear floor, Van Pelt Library. that many schools have already initiated some (continuednextpage) version ofthis proposal," Mr. Koval said. INSIDE' Change In Pie-registration: Due to a conflict Provost on Faculty Tuition Benefits; with the dates for religious holidays, pre-regis- VP on Faculty/Staff Benefits, p.2 the new chemistry tration for fall 1983 have been changed, Registrar For its opening, History of Highlights of "Preventing Nuclear War," p.3 center honors a leader Dr. John J. Smolen has announced. The correct dates longtime of thefaculn; Staffing in Benefits, Payroll, Personnel, p.3 for pre-registration are now April 6, 7, 8, II, and Charles C. Price (left)-and a.forerunnerin science Of Record: Conflict-of Interest Policy 12. who turned down ajob here over 200 years ago. for Faculty Members, pp. 4-6 -From the Provost History of Chemistry (continuedfrom page!) The celebration begins with the opening of an exhibition Joseph Priestley: Enlightened Chemist, a collection of artifacts, books, cor- respondence, engravings, portraits and equip- On Tuition Benefits for Faculty Children ment, 2 p.m. at the Rosenwald Gallery. Dr. Seaborg will preside and Edward G. Jefferson, chairman of DuPont, will speak on Priest/er's Contribution to Chemistry and Culture. The As in Almanac, the a for a of reported faculty decisively expressed preference restructuring exhibit will remain on view through May 27; tuition benefits. The administration stated its that a to distribute previously judgment restructuring hours Monday through Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m. tuition benefits more the is desirable and that either ofthe new equitably among faculty proposed and lectures will be given through- with constant costs is to the current a3:2 the indicated that Symposia plans preferable plan. By margin, faculty out the afternoon and evening of March II: favorthe at the Senate on November 17, 1982, for they plan adopted Faculty meeting calling gradual Priestlev's Philadelphia; Whitfield J. Bell. Jr., the for children at Penn and a movement over the next five years to remission of 75% tuition faculty American Philosophical Society, 2:45 p.m., Rosen- direct grant ofup to 40% of Penn's tuition for faculty children attending other schools. wald Gallery, 6th floor, Van Pelt Library. The administration accepts this recommendation and will move to implement the plan adopted Lasers in Chemical and Biochemical Research; at the Senate meeting and endorsed by the mail ballot. This plan provides, for undergraduate Robin M. Hochstrasser, department of chemistry. 2:45-3:30 Main Lecture Theatre, students away from Penn, up to $1,000 in 1983-84, $1,500 in 1984-85, $2,400 in 1985-86, $3,400 in p.m., Chemistry 1986-87, and 40% of Penn's tuition in 1987-88 and thereafter. tuition remission at Building. Undergraduate The Prototype Conducting for students after 1983 will be in 1984-85 and of Penn's tuition Polyacezylene. (CH)x: Penn matriculating $7,320 75% Pol;'mer; Alan G. MacDiarmid, department of thereafter. children enrolled at Penn as offall 1983, however, will continueto receive the full Faculty chemistry, 3:45-4:30 p.m., Main Lecture Theatre, tuition benefit. Comparable changes will be made with regard to faculty children enrolled in Chemistry Building. professional schools. The Internationalism of Chemistry; Honorary B. Professors Gerstenhaber and Preston, chairs respectively of the Faculty Senate and the Senate Degree Convocation speaker Christian Anfinsen. on the Economic Status of the have that the administration consider Nobel Prize Laureate, department of chemistry Committee Faculty, urged Rosen- with to those members who need loanstoalleviate the financial Johns Hopkins University, 4:45-5:45 p.m.. helping regard faculty may pressures wald 6th floor, Van Pelt occasioned the shift from the current to the new The administration is on this Gallery, Library. by plan. working Joseph Priesiley and Photosynthesis Today: Sir matter in an effort to ensure that the University is as helpful as possible. George Porter of the Royal Institution. London, Finally, a special word ofthanks in appreciation to all those who helped in developing the set of Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry, 8:15p.m.. Ham- recommendations that have now been approved, and most particularly to Professors Gerstenhaber son Auditorium, University Museum. and Preston. I am most grateful. There will be an all day pilgrimage to Joseph Priestley's home and grave in Northumber- land, Pennsylvania, Saturday, March 12.