2022-Gala Program Online Honoree -4.14.2022

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HONOREE KAREN I. GOLDBERG ’83, P’22, PhD National Academy of Sciences Karen Goldberg is the inaugural Vagelos Professor of Energy Research in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. She also serves as director of the new Vagelos Institute of Energy Science and Technology (VIEST), which focuses its research efforts on alternative sources of energy as well as energy use and storage. Prior to her current appointment, she was a professor at the University of Washington, where she was also director of the Center for Enabling New Technologies through Catalysis (CENTC). She began her career at Illinois State University after earning a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, and spending a postdoctoral year at The Ohio State University. Professor Goldberg is known for developing new catalytic systems to produce chemicals and fuels from a range of available feedstocks in a way that is both efficient and environmentally responsible. She then aims to improve these systems by testing and understanding the mechanisms by which catalysts operate. In 2018, Professor Goldberg was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. She is the recipient of numerous grants, fellowships, and prizes, including the International Precious Metal Institute’s Carol Tyler Award and the American Chemical Society’s Award for Organometallic Chemistry. She is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has served on the advisory boards of several journals published by the American Chemical Society and Royal Society of Chemistry, and she has been a member of the Chemistry Selection Committee for Sloan Research Fellowships and the International Advisory Committee of the Solvay Institutes.
HONOREE ELLEN R. GRITZ ’64, PhD National Academy of Medicine Ellen R. Gritz is a professor emerita at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, where she was the Olla S. Stribling Distinguished Chair for Cancer Research and chair of the Department of Behavioral Science until her retirement. She earned a doctorate from the University of California, San Diego, after working for a period at Bell Laboratories. Dr. Gritz is an internationally recognized leader in cancer prevention and control research. She is especially known for her work on cigarette smoking behavior: prevention, cessation, pharmacologic mechanisms, and special issues of concern to women and high-risk groups, including ethnic minorities, youth, cancer patients, and persons living with HIV/AIDS and other chronic illnesses. Dr. Gritz is the author or editor of over 300 publications, including eight reports on smoking and health by the US Surgeon General. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the Academy of Medicine, Engineering, and Science of Texas, and she has served on the board of directors of the American Legacy Foundation. She was president of both the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco and the American Society of Preventive Oncology (ASPO). Dr. Gritz has received numerous honors, including the ASPO’s Joseph Cullen Memorial Award and Distinguished Achievement Award, and the MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Margaret and James Elkins, Jr. Faculty Achievement Award in Cancer Prevention and President’s Award for Faculty Excellence. She received the Alma Dea Morani Renaissance Woman Award, the Society of Behavioral Medicine Cancer Special Interest Group’s Outstanding Biobehavioral Oncology Award, the Distinguished Professional Woman’s Award of the UT Health Science Center-Houston, and she is an elected fellow of the Society of Behavioral Medicine and the American Psychological Association.
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