Election to the APS recognizes accomplishments in math and physical sciences, biological sciences, social sciences, humanities and the arts and various professions and recognizes leaders in public and private affairs.
Katz is the recipient of numerous academic awards and honors. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Education, National Academy of Social Insurance and Society of American Historians and has been a Guggenheim Fellow.
Katz’s work focuses on the history of American education, the history of urban social structure and family organization and the history of social welfare and policy. He is the author of more than a dozen books. The most recent, which he co-authored, is Public Education Under Siege. His forthcoming book, The Underserving Poor: America’s Enduring Confrontation with Poverty, is due out in October.
APS, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743, is the nation’s first learned society.
Nanoparticle blueprints reveal path to smarter medicines
New research involving Penn Engineering shows detailed variation in lipid nanoparticle size, shape, and internal structure, and finds that such factors correlate with how well they deliver therapeutic cargo to a particular destination.
A generous gift from alumni Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman brings the work of internationally acclaimed artist Jaume Plensa to the University of Pennsylvania. The latest addition to the Penn Art Collection expands Philadelphia's public art.
A massive chunk of ice, a new laser, and new information on sea-level rise
For nearly a decade, Leigh Stearns and collaborators aimed a laser scanner system at Greenland’s Helheim Glacier. Their long-running survey reveals that Helheim’s massive calving events don’t behave the way scientists once thought, reframing how ice loss contributes to sea-level rise.
