Janice Smith Bers, ED’39 and Julian Bers, W’31

The late Janice Bers graduated from Penn with an education degree in 1939. Her husband, the late Julian Bers, graduated from Wharton in 1931. He received Penn’s Alumni Award of Merit in 1968, and served as a trustee of the University, while Janice Bers served as president of her class and on the 50th reunion gift committee.

Named Professors

M. Susan Lindee, Janice and Julian Bers Professor of the History and Sociology of Science

Aurélie Ouss, Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences