Dr. Warren Ewens has been appointed to the Christopher
H. Browne Distinguished Professorship in the School of Arts and
Sciences
 Dr.
Warren Ewens has been appointed to the Christopher H. Browne
Distinguished Professorship in the School of Arts and Sciences.
The Browne chairs are considered to be among the highest honors
bestowed on SAS faculty and are given in recognition of outstanding
scholarly contributions, great distinction in teaching, intellectual
integrity and unquestioned commitment to free and open discussion
of ideas. This chair is one of five Browne Distinguished Professorships
created in 2000 by an exceptionally generous gift from Christopher
H. Browne C'69, chairman of the Board of Overseers of the School
of Arts and Sciences and a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania.
Among
his other honors, Dr.
Ewens was awarded the
Biology Department Teaching Prize (chosen by undergraduates),
a Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching at the University
of Pennsylvania, the Weldon Memorial Prize (for outstanding
contributions to Biometric Science), and is a Fellow of the
prestigious Royal Society of London.
Christopher H. Browne
http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/v46/n19/020100.html
Weldon
Memorial Prize
http://www.ptb.ias.edu/nowak/weldon.html
Lindback
Award
http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/notables/awards/lindback.html
Royal
Society
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/royalsoc/
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