Faculty Honors

Daniel José Mindiola, Presidential Professor of Chemistry, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon members of AAAS, the world’s largest general scientific society, by their peers. Mindiola’s expertise is in studying inorganic and organometallic synthesis, catalysis, and mechanistic chemistry. A research goal of his team is to convert natural or shale gas into more value-added materials and take advantage of the energy stored in the carbon-hydrogen bonds without burning these natural resources.

Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology, Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, and Professor of Africana Studies, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, one of the nation’s highest honors in biomedicine. An acclaimed scholar of race, gender, and the law, Roberts focuses on issues in health, social justice, and bioethics, especially as they affect the lives of women, children, and African-Americans. She serves on the board of directors of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and is Director of the Program on Race, Science, and Society.

The appointments of 21 Penn Arts and Sciences faculty as endowed chairs have been announced since the beginning of the 2017 – 18 school year:

Etienne Benson, Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences, History and Sociology of Science

Warren Breckman, Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History

Harold Dibble, Francis E. Johnston Term Professor of Anthropology

Marc Flandreau, Howard Marks Professor of Economic History

Daniel Gillion, Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt Presidential Associate Professor of Political Science

Karen Goldberg, Vagelos Professor in Energy Research, Chemistry, and Director of the Vagelos Institute for Energy Science and Technology

Mark Goulian, Charles and William L. Day Distinguished Professor in the Natural Sciences, Biology and Physics and Astronomy

Peter Holquist, Ronald S. Lauder Endowed Term Associate Professor of History

Michael Jones-Correa, President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science

Michael Leja, James and Nan Wagner Farquhar Professor of History of Art

Eugene Mele, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Physics

Anne Norton, Stacey and Henry Jackson President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science

Tony Pantev, Class of 1939 Professor of Mathematics

Ileana Pérez-Rodríguez, Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Science and Elliman Faculty Fellow

Megan Robb, Julie and Martin Franklin Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

Timothy Rommen, Davidson Kennedy Professor in the College, Music

Paul Saint-Amour, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, English

Lauren Sallan, Martin Meyerson Assistant Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies, Earth and Environmental Science

Dawn Teele, Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences, Political Science

Dagmawi Woubshet, Ahuja Family Presidential Associate Professor of English

Bo Zhen, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Elliman Faculty Fellow