PHILADELPHIA Robert Boruch, a professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and a statistics professor at Penn Wharton School, has been named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Class of 2002.

Boruch is also a professor at the Fels Center of Government and the Annenberg School for Communication Summer Institute and a fellow at the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, all at the University of Pennsylvania.

He is also a founder and chair of the international Campbell Collaboration, an organization which prepares, maintains and promotes access to systematic reviews of evidence on the effects of programs in the areas of education, crime and justice and social welfare.

Boruch is the author of more than 150 articles in refereed research journals and is the author or editor of 15. He has contributed to numerous committees of the National Academy of Sciences during the past 30 years and is a fellow of the American Statistical Association.

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