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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Tuesday May 10, 2011 Volume 57 Number 33 www.upenn.edu/almanac Faculty Senate Leadership 2011-2012 Vet Medicine Teaching Awards Annual Reports: The SCAVMA The Faculty (Student Chapter of Senate Chair’s the American Veter- report and the inary Medical Asso- annual reports ciation) teaching and of the Senate student awards were committees are presented on April 29, in this issue, at Penn’s School of beginning on Veterinary Medicine. page 7 and run- The awards cel- ning through ebrated faculty and page 12. staff honorees se- Robert Hornik Camille Charles Susan Margulies Raymond Sweeney lected for their dedi- The Faculty Senate announced its leadership for the upcoming academic year (,left to right)— (continued on page 4) Past Chair: Dr. Robert C. Hornik, Wilbur Schramm Professor of Communication and Health Policy, Annenberg School for Communication; Chair: Dr. Camille Z. Charles, Professor of Sociology and PennDesign Teaching Awards the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Social Sciences, SAS, and Director of the The School of Design has announced three Center for Africana Studies; and Chair–Elect: Dr. Susan S. Margulies, George H. Stephenson Term recipients of their 2011 Teaching Awards. Chair in Bioengineering and Professor of Bioengineering, SEAS. These awards are named in honor of the late G. Holmes Perkins, dean of the Graduate School of Fine Arts (now the School of Design) from 1951-71, and are given in recognition of distin- guished teaching and innovation in the methods of instruction in the classroom, seminar, or stu- dio. Dean Perkins passed away in 2004 (Almanac September 7, 2004) at the age of 99. The Perkins Award was established in 1993 by former Dean and Paley Professor Patricia Conway. The under- graduate award was established by the School. The awards will be presented at PennDe- sign at a ceremony Sunday, May 15, at 4 p.m. in Meyerson Hall as part of the School’s graduation activities. The 2011 G. Holmes Perkins Award for Distin- guished Teaching will be awarded to Laura Wolf-Pow- ers, assistant pro- fessor of city & re- gional planning. Dr. Wolf-Powers teach- es urban economics Laura Wolf-Powers (continued on page 4) IN THIS ISSUE 2 Reappointment of Joan Hendricks as Dean; Deaths; BFS Course Design Grants 3 Speaking Out: Open Letter to Penn Faculty 4 Teaching Awards 5 Honors & Other Things 7 Senate: Report of the Chair Photograph by Marguerite F. Miller Photograph by Marguerite F. 8 Senate: Report of Committee on Students & A Marvelous Milestone: Delivering the Promise of Research Educational Policy 9 Senate: Report of Committee on Faculty & A toast to celebrate the opening of the Translational Research Center, Penn Medicine’s new $370 Academic Mission million medical research building—one of the first anywhere to be physically integrated into facili- 11 Senate: Report of Committee on Faculty ties for patient care—namely the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine and the Roberts Proton Development, Diversity and Equity Therapy Center. It will house three Penn institutes: the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabo- 12 Senate: Report of Committee on Faculty & lism; the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics; and the Penn Cardiovascular Insti- Administration tute. The recent event honored the many basic researchers and clinicians who have made this inter- 13 HR: Upcoming Programs, Criminal Records disciplinary center for learning, discovery and healing a reality. Above, UPHS CEO Ralph Muller; 14 CCTV Cameras; One Step Ahead: Security & Privacy Tip NIH Director Francis Collins, the event’s featured speaker; EVP for UPHS and Dean of the School 15 Update; CrimeStats; Classifieds of Medicine Arthur Rubenstein; and University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann. 16 Research Roundup ALMANAC May 10, 2011 www.upenn.edu/almanac 1 From the President and the Provost Deaths Dr. Ten Have, Medicine Reappointment of Joan Hendricks Dr. Thomas Ten Have, professor of biostatis- as Dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine tics in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and We have received the report of the Consultative Review Committee on the Reappointment of Biostatistics in the School of Medicine, died on Joan Hendricks as Dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine (Almanac, January 18, 2011), and we May 1 at the age of 53. are delighted to recommend to the Trustees at their June meeting the reappointment of Dean Hen- Born in Sioux City, Iowa, Dr. Ten Have dricks for a second term, to run through June 30, 2018. earned his BS, MPH and PhD all from the Uni- The Consultative Committee conducted a comprehensive review of Dean Hendricks’ first term versity of Michigan. as Dean, and identified the major challenges and opportunities facing Dean Hendricks and the He joined the faculty at Penn in 1997, where School of Veterinary Medicine in the years ahead. We concur with the Committee’s conclusion that he was professor of biostatistics, a member of the Dean Hendricks’ first term was marked by a series of unprecedented budgetary and financial chal- MPH Curriculum Committee and a senior fellow lenges for the School of Veterinary Medicine, following the economic downturn in 2008 and subse- in the Institute on Aging. He was the director of quent dramatic cuts in Commonwealth support. The need to effectively manage these challenges, the Biostatistics Data-Core and associate director while furthering the School’s commitment to eminence and maintaining financial discipline, were of the Division of Biostatistics in the Center for the defining themes of Dean Hendricks’ first term. Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Dr. Ten Despite these difficult challenges, under Dean Hendricks’ leadership, Penn Vet has maintained Have studied the intersection of causal statistical its international reputation and renewed its forward momentum. She has balanced the School’s bud- methods and behavioral interventions on behav- get; sustained its highly regarded teaching, research, and clinical programs; opened new, modern fa- ioral and medical outcomes. cilities; committed the School to transparent and consultative management; begun important initia- In his career, he published over 200 papers, tives to strengthen the School’s administrative infrastructure; and strengthened the School’s impor- was a fellow of the American Statistical Associ- tant relationships around campus and especially in Harrisburg. ation and a recipient of the Harvard Award for The new fiscal realities facing Penn Vet will pose important challenges in the years ahead, in- Lifetime Contributions to Psychiatric Epidemi- cluding the development of a long-term financial plan for the School’s various missions, carefully ology and Biostatistics. managing costs to allow for strategic investments in support of the School’s highest priorities, and Dr. Ten Have is survived by his wife, Eliza- building on the School’s distinctive strengths in both its basic science and clinical programs. beth and daughter, Anna. Dean Hendricks performed commendably in her first term despite the extraordinary challeng- A memorial will be held at 10 a.m. on May 13 es faced by Penn Vet. We are confident that she is the academic leader best able to work with the at the Grace Epiphany Episcopal Church at 224 E. School’s faculty and the University administration to articulate a future vision for the School and to Gowen Ave. in Mt. Airy In lieu of flowers, dona- develop and implement the plans necessary to realize it. We look forward to working closely with tions may be made to Philadelphia Futures, Phila- her in the months and years ahead as the School of Veterinary Medicine works to build on its for- delphia Collaborative Violence Prevention Center, ward momentum and achieve even greater eminence and success. of which Dr. Ten Have was the information core —Amy Gutmann, President co-director, or ACHIEVEability. —Vincent Price, Provost Dr. Toma, GSE Dr. J. Douglas Toma, former senior fellow in the Graduate School of Education and found- BFS Course Design Grants: Call for Proposals: May 27 ing director of the Executive Doctorate in High- Together with the Office of the Provost, the Theme-Year Courses er Education Management Program, died May 4 Environmental Sustainability Advisory Com- Courses that develop next year’s theme— at the age of 47. mittee, and the Netter Center for Community Games: Body and Mind—will be supported. We A graduate of Michigan State University, Dr. Partnerships, the Benjamin Franklin Scholars look for courses to develop the many issues that Toma earned a JD from the Law School of the program is pleased to announce the BFS Course can emerge out of Penn’s theme year, across his- University of Michigan in 1989. He went on to Design Grants. torical and disciplinary boundaries. For more earn a masters in history and a PhD in higher ed- We will consider granting $2000—$5000 to on next year’s academic year theme see, www. ucation, both from the University of Michigan exceptional proposals for the development of new upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v57/n06/themeyear. in 1993 and 1995, respectively. BFS seminars. (For more information on BFS in html Dr. Toma began his career as an assistant general, see www.upenn.edu/curf/bfs/) The money Ideas In Action professor at the University of Missouri, Kansas is to be used to facilitate innovative course com- These courses will design new ways of en- City before coming to Penn. ponents that may have expenses attached to them, gaging students in active learning. They ask At Penn he was first a visiting fellow at the with up to $2000 available as a course development students to experience what they study, wheth- Institute for Research on Higher Education from stipend for faculty. The review process will begin er that be a course that brings students to work 1998-2000, before becoming a senior fellow, lec- May 27, 2011.
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