PsychologyElizabeth Brannon has been appointed to the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Chair in the Natural Sciences, in recognition both of her distinguished scholarship and of her outstanding service to the Department of Psychology and the School of Arts and Sciences.
This chair was established through the bequest of Edmund and Louise Kahn. Mr. Kahn was a 1925 Wharton graduate who had a highly successful career in the oil and natural gas
industry. Mrs. Kahn, a graduate of Smith College, worked for Newsweek and owned an interior design firm. The couple created several...
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June 24, 2016
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June 17, 2016
This chair is one of 10 created by an exceptionally generous gift from the late Christopher H. Browne, C’69, who served Penn as a trustee and chairman of the Board of Overseers in Penn Arts and Sciences. The Browne chairs recognize faculty members who have achieved an extraordinary reputation for scholarly contributions, who have demonstrated great distinction in teaching, and who have demonstrated intellectual integrity and unquestioned commitment to free and open discussion of ideas.
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June 15, 2016
The Education Awards will be presented at the annual convention of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association, during the Town Hall Plenary Session which will be held on Friday, June 17, 2016 beginning at 9:00 a.m.
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May 4, 2016
This award was establlished in 2012 and recognizes undergraduate faculty advisors. More information about the award can be found at https://provost.upenn.edu/education/teaching-at-penn/tcpw-award .
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May 3, 2016
For mroe information, please visit https://news.upenn.edu/news/pik-professor-michael-platt-earns-nih-award-...
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April 4, 2016
This award is given to assistant professors who show unusual promise as teachers/scholars.
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April 4, 2016
The Lindback Award is the highest teaching honor that the University bestows upon our faculty. The Lindback dossier contains letters from faculty, undergraduates, and graduate students who speak to the Dan's commitment to distinguished teaching across a wide range of settings, from direction and mentorship of graduate students to his special talent with the largest class in the College, PSYC001. Dan is just the third Lindback Award recipient in Psychology since the award was established in 1961.
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April 4, 2016
The primary criteria for the Provost’s Award for Distinguished PhD Teaching and Mentoring are a record of successful doctoral student mentoring and placement, success in collaborating on doctoral committees and graduate groups, and distinguished research. It was a pleasure to read the many letters of support speaking to Dianne’s accomplishments on all of these points.
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March 3, 2016
Penn's David Dinges Receives Pioneer Award for Research Contributions to Space Biomedical Community from the National Space Biomedical Research Institute.
For more information, please visit http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/2016/02/dinges/
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November 4, 2015
Dr. Daniel Rizzuto, who is a Project Director at Penn's Computational Memory Lab (http://memory.psych.upenn.edu/Main_Page), is the recipient of Neurotech Reports’ 2015 Neurotechnology Researcher of the Year Award.