R. Scott Poethig has been named Paul Williams Family Term Chair
Dr. R. Scott Poethig has been named the
inaugural holder of the Paul Williams Family
Term Chair in Biology, SAS Dean Samuel H.
Preston has announced.
Dr. Poethig received his B.A. in 1974
from the College of Wooster and his M. Phil.
and Ph.D. from Yale in 1981. He has been a
member of the faculty since 1983 and currently
chairs the biology graduate group.
Before that, he was a postdoctoral fellow at
the University of Missouri and Stanford.
Dr. Poethig's research focuses on genetic
regulation of plant morphogenesis, the formation
and differentiation of tissues and organs in
plants. He teaches courses on plant development,
genetic systems, and teaching biology.
He has published articles in a number of scholarly journals and
sits on the
editorial boards of Annual Review of Cell and Developmental
Biology,
Developmental Biology, The Plant Journal and Evolution
and Development.
He was recently elected as a fellow of the American Association
for the
Advancement of Science, the world's largest federation
of scientists and
publisher of Science. He has also received an NSF Predoctoral
Fellowship, the
Botanical Society of America's Pelton Award for contributions
in experimental
plant morphology, Yale's Nicholas Prize in Experimental
Biology, and
Penn's Biology Department Teaching Award.
This Williams Chair was created in 2002 by University Trustee
and
SAS Overseer Paul C. Williams, W'67. Mr. Williams, the
vice president
and manager of Nuveen Investments, has been a generous supporter
of
many University priorities, including several term chairs and
scholarships
in SAS, the biology department, and the Quad renewal project.
Professor R. Scott Poethig
304 Mudd Building
Department of Biology
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
