Patricia Williams Term Chair named
 Dr.
Richard Schultz has been appointed to the Patricia Williams
Term Chair in Biology, SAS Dean Samuel H. Preston announced. Dr.
Schultz received his B.A. from Brandeis University in 1971 and his
Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1975. His research focuses on egg
activation and gene expression in mouse embryos. Before coming to
Penn in 1978, he was a postdoctoral fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation
at Harvard Medical School.
He is a fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and the recipient of the Jan Purkinje Medal
of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He has served as a member of the
developmental biology study section at the National Science Foundation
and the reproductive biology study section at the National Institutes
of Health. He is also the recipient of several grants from the National
Institutes of Health and an NIH MERIT Award. He is a member of the
editorial
boards of BioEssays, Biology of Reproduction, and Developmental
Biology and is a director of the Society for the Study of Reproduction.
In addition to his scholarly activities, he has served as a member
of the biology department’s executive committee and chairman
of the biology graduate group.
The Patricia Williams Term Chair in Biology was established
by Paul C. Williams and is named in honor of his mother. A 1967
graduate of the Wharton School, Mr. Williams is a University trustee
and a member of the SAS Board of Overseers. Mr. Williams is vice
president and manager of Nuveen Investments, a financial services
firm in Chicago.
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