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Around the QuadsIN LUMINE TUOFACULTY: Three Arts & Sciences faculty members have received recent honors. Herbert J. Gans, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, received an honorary degree from Penn in May. Gans, who was given an honorary Doctor of Science, was the first graduate of Penn’s Graduate School of Fine Arts doctoral program in city planning and was cited for being a scholar “whose research and commentary on urban sociology and planning have served as a national standard for more than 50 years.” Elaine Sisman, chair of the music department, was elected president of the 3,300-member American Musicological Society. Beginning in November, she will serve as AMS president-elect for one year. Effective November 2004, Sisman will serve as president for two years. Rabbi David Weiss Halivni, Lucius N. Littauer
Professor of Classical Jewish Civilization, was
honored by Bar-Ilan University of Israel with an
honorary doctorate. Haivni was lauded for “his
exceptional achievements as an internationally renowned
Talmudic scholar and expert in classical Jewish
civilization.”
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