Stephen Gale, Political Science | University of Pennsylvania Almanac

Stephen Chaim Zelig ben Yehuda v’Sarah Gale, an affiliate professor emeritus of political science within the College of Arts and Sciences, died on October 30. He was 80.

Dr. Gale obtained his BS, MA, and PhD levels from the College of Michigan, then served a postdoctoral fellowship and lectured on the College of California, Berkeley. In 1970, he joined the school of Northwestern College on the assistant professor degree, then got here to the Wharton College at Penn in 1973 as an assistant professor of peace science, the predecessor of political science. In 1978, he was promoted to affiliate professor and chair of a division that had since been renamed regional science and relocated to the College of Arts and Sciences, in addition to Organizational Dynamics. He additionally held a secondary appointment within the former College of Public and City Coverage.

Dr. Gale was an engaged college member, sitting on a number of School Senate and College Council committees (chairing the Council committees on Analysis and Scholar Affairs and the Senate Committee on College students and Instructional Coverage at varied instances). He additionally served on ad-hoc committees, together with ones for the number of high-ranking Penn officers and for the development of an (unbuilt) campus recreation middle in 1990. Dr. Gale additionally served as the school grasp of Neighborhood Home within the Quad and was Penn’s judicial administrator from 1993-1995. Dr. Gale helped construct the Dynamics of Group graduate group and was a college member within the Overseas Coverage Analysis Institute. In 2012, he retired from Penn and took emeritus standing.

Whereas at Penn, Dr. Gale carried out analysis and educating in know-how switch and enterprise growth, actual property evaluation, safety, and challenge analysis. His work on terrorism handled the creation and use of software program methods for built-in safety evaluation, the event and evaluation of safety situations, and the applying of negotiation fashions. Famend for his analysis, he testified on Capitol Hill, and appeared continuously within the media, consulted for quite a lot of firms and governmental businesses. Dr. Gale labored with Sandia and Los Alamos Nationwide Laboratories, the U.S. Division of Power, and different defense-related businesses. As well as, he has labored on safety tasks for personal sector organizations like Exxon, Johnson & Johnson, and the American Society for Industrial Safety. He wrote many peer-reviewed articles and co-authored the guide The Struggle on Terrorism: Twenty first-Century Views in 2012.

A service was held on November 6. Dr. Gale’s household requests that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to Challenge Gutenberg.