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July 14, 2015, Volume 62, No. 01 |
2015 ACLS Fellowships
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) awarded 2015 ACLS Fellowships to two Penn faculty members and 2015 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships to three Penn doctoral students in May.
Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Professor Dorothy Roberts will use her fellowship to work on a book project, Interracial Marriage and Racial Equality in Chicago, 1937–1967, which examines the lives of black-white couples to investigate the relationship between interracial marriage and racial equality. She is Penn’s 14th PIK professor, as well as the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology, the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights and a professor of Africana studies.
Kathy Peiss, Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History, will also use her fellowship to work on a book project, The Collecting Missions of World War II, which explores the impact of World War II on American policies and practices toward information, knowledge and culture.
Whitney Laemmli, a doctoral candidate in the history & sociology of science department, will use her ACLS grant for a project titled The Choreography of Everyday Life: Rudolf Laban and the Analysis of Modern Movement.
Kelly Mee Rich, a doctoral candidate in the English department, is working on a project titled States of Repair: Institutions of Private Life in the Postwar British Novel.
Emily Warner, a doctoral candidate in the history of art department, is working on a project titled Painting the Abstract Environment: Abstract Murals in New York, 1935-55.
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2015 AIA Fellows
In May, the 2015 Jury of Fellows from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) elevated 147 AIA members to its prestigious College of Fellows, including PennDesign lecturers in architecture Neil Denari, Scott Erdy and David McHenry, as well as alumni Marc Marguiles, C’75, M.Arch’79, Harry A. Mark, M.Arch’95, and Daniel K. McCoubrey, C’75, M.Arch’81.
Of a total AIA membership of over 85,000, approximately 3,200 members are distinguished with this honor, which recognizes the achievements of architects as individuals and their significant contribution to architecture and society on a national level.
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Stephen Avery: 2015 AAPM Fellow
Stephen Avery, assistant professor of radiation and oncology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania who has served as the director of Penn’s Master of Medical Physics program from 2010-2015, was named a Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) in May. This honor recognizes Dr. Avery’s distinguished leadership, especially in regard to his dedication to the education of medical physicists.
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Danielle Bassett: Young Investigator
Danielle S. Bassett, Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation in the departments of bioengineering and electrical systems engineering, was named a 2015 Young Investigator by the Department of the Navy in April. This year’s winners represent 31 academic institutions from across the country and will collectively receive $18.8 million in grants to fund research efforts to advance naval technology.
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Cristina Bicchieri: Honorary Fellowship and Pufendorf Medal
Cristina Bicchieri, the S. J. P. Harvie Professor of Philosophy and Psychology and director of the Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program (PPE), has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. She is also the recipient of the Pufendorf Medal and has been invited to hold the Pufendorf Lectures at Lund University in Sweden. Dr. Bicchieri was invited because of her outstanding interdisciplinary research on social norms, combining subtle philosophical analysis with psychological empirical work of high quality.
Dr. Bicchieri has published six books and scores of articles. She has worked on problems in the philosophy of social science, rational choice and game theory. More recently, her work has focused on the nature and evolution of social norms, and the design of behavioral experiments to test under which conditions norms will be followed. She is a leader in the field of behavioral ethics and is the director of the Behavioral Ethics Lab (BeLab) at the University of Pennsylvania. She gives international lectures regularly on social norms and leads an annual two-week training on social norms and social change for UNICEF.
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Bungalow Insurance: Wharton Business Plan Competition Winner
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania announced that student team Bungalow Insurance won the $30,000 Perlman Grand Prize of the 2015 Wharton Business Plan Competition. The prize was awarded at the Wharton School’s annual Venture Finals in April, where student finalists received more than $128,000 in combined cash prizes and in-kind legal/accounting services.
Bungalow Insurance, founded by Tom Austin, WG’15, and Zack Stiefler, WG’15, is using data and design to create an insurance experience that meets the needs, habits and expectations of millennial consumers. Bungalow Insurance has built an easy-to-use online renters insurance buying platform designed for millennials and is partnering with affiliates to distribute the product to tenants, dramatically lowering customer acquisition expenditures.
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Center for Africana Studies: Student Prize Recipients
Abrina L. Hyatt, C’15, received the John Edgar Wideman Prize in Africana Studies, awarded for the best undergraduate essay in literature or the arts. She also received the Raymond Pace Alexander Prize in Africana Studies, awarded to an Africana studies major or minor who has distinguished him- or herself academically, intellectually and in the area of leadership.
Melanie Y. White, C’15, received the W.E.B. Du Bois Prize in Africana Studies, awarded for the best undergraduate essay in history or the social sciences. She also received the Sadie Tanner Alexander Prize in Africana Studies, awarded for a senior honors thesis of exceptional merit.
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Clinical Research Achievement Award
Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine and the Penn Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) were among the 2015 recipients of the prestigious Clinical Research Achievement Award for their personalized gene therapy work in HIV. The team included Carl H. June of pathology and laboratory medicine; Bruce L. Levine, director of the Clinical Cell and Vaccine Production Facility; and Pablo Tebas, director of the AIDS Clinical Trials Unit at the Penn CFAR.
In April, the Clinical Research Forum recognized the year’s 10 most outstanding research papers written by teams from across the nation. The Penn team’s work, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in March 2014, was the first successful clinical test of any gene editing approach in humans.
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Nader Engheta: IEEE/AP-S Distinguished Achievement Award
Nader Engheta, H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering, is the recipient of the 2015 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Distinguished Achievement Award for “seminal contributions in the theory, application and demonstration of metamaterials, plasmonic optics and chiral and omega media.” The award will be presented on July 21.
Dr. Engheta’s research interests span the fields of nanooptics and nanophotonics, metamaterials and plasmonics, and optical nanostructure modeling, including nanoantennas, nanocircuits and nanosystems. He is also investigating bio-inspired sensing and imaging, as well as physics and reverse-engineering of polarization vision in nature. He and his group have been developing the concept of optical lumped nanocircuits based on material nanostructures, with the goal of opening the possibility of nanoelectronics with light.
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C. Neill Epperson: ELAM Graduate
C. Neill Epperson, professor of psychiatry and obstetrics and gynecology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Penn Center for Women’s Behavioral Wellness, recently graduated from the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program at Drexel University’s College of Medicine.
ELAM is a year-long, part-time fellowship for women faculty in schools of medicine, dentistry and public health. Fellows complete an institution action project that provides practical experience in building leadership skills and benefits their home institution. Dr. Epperson’s institution action plan focuses on creating a Center for the Study of Sex and Gender in Health.
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Graduate Student Leaders
Penn honored its graduate student leaders with the following awards in May.
The President’s and Provost’s Citation for Exceptional Commitment to Graduate and Professional Student Life:
Cheyenne Alexis Anthony (GSE)
Vicky Vi Thuy Doan-Nguyen (SEAS)
The Andy Binns Impact Award for Outstanding Service to Graduate and Professional Student Life:
Rachel Apanewicz-Delgado (SAS/Organizational Dynamics)
Suzanne Bratt (SAS/Music)
Desmond Martin Diggs (GSE)
Katherine Gibson (SEAS)
Priya Hattay (SEAS)
Steven Lin (Dental Medicine)
Vinayak Mathur (SAS/Biology)
Sibel Ozcelik (SP2/Law)
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Judith Green-McKenzie: ACOEM Lifetime Achievement Award
Judith Green-McKenzie, associate professor of emergency medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and chief of the division of occupational medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, was honored by the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) with the Kehoe Award for Excellence in Education or Research in Occupational and Environmental Medicine in May.
Dr. Green-McKenzie received this lifetime achievement award for her work and accomplishments as a distinguished educator, specifically for her outstanding leadership as director of Penn’s Occupational Medicine Residency Program, which has resulted in the development of a unique train-in-place program that is an innovative model of post-graduate medical education.
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Ira Harkavy: Honorary Doctorate and City Council Proclamation
Cleveland State University (CSU) presented Ira Harkavy, associate vice president and founding director of the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships at Penn, with an Honorary Doctor of Urban Studies in May. The CSU Board of Trustees and faculty voted to award this degree in recognition of Dr. Harkavy’s outstanding leadership in building university-community-school partnerships in urban areas.
Also in May, a resolution introduced by Philadelphia City Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell honored Dr. Harkavy’s lifetime of accomplishments and the Netter Center’s dedication to community service, as well as their significant contributions to West Philadelphia.
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ICA’s Endless Shout: Pew Center Project Grant
In June, the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) received a project grant of $295,400 for the production of Endless Shout, a multi-artist performance project exploring the impact of collectivity and improvisation on contemporary performance as introduced by the African-American avant-garde of the 1960s. Endless Shout will be organized by Anthony Elms, associate curator, along with five individual artists and one artist-duo: Raul de Nieves, Danielle Goldman, George Lewis, Fred Moten, the Otolith Group and taisha paggett [sic].
The project will take place in the fall of 2016 alongside ICA’s presentation of The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now. Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, this touring exhibition investigates the influences of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) and the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists (AfriCOBRA), seminal artist-driven movements in music and art that originated in Chicago in 1965 and 1968, respectively.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson: David Lecture, National Academy of Sciences
Annenberg Public Policy Center director Kathleen Hall Jamieson delivered the Henry and Bryna David Endowment Lecture on “Communicating the Value and Values of Science” before the National Academy of Sciences in April. She examined the roles of the scientific and journalistic communities, using examples of successes and failures in science communication in cases such as the false link between autism and vaccines, stem cell research, climate change, last winter’s erroneous warnings of a New York City “Snowmageddon,” genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the hole in the ozone layer.
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Mary-Claire King: Basser Global Prize
Penn’s Basser Research Center for BRCA awarded the second annual Basser Global Prize to human genetics researcher and expert Mary-Claire King, the American Cancer Society Research Professor of Genetics and Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr. King is a pioneer in the development of experimental and bioinformatics genomics tools to study common, complex human diseases and health conditions. As part of the award, she gave the keynote address at the Center’s annual symposium in May. She received $200,000 in unrestricted support of her BRCA1/2-related research efforts, the Basser Trophy and a personal $10,000 cash prize.
In 1990, Dr. King demonstrated that a single gene on chromosome 17q21, which she named BRCA1, was responsible for breast and ovarian cancer in many families. Her discovery of BRCA1 revolutionized the study of numerous other common inherited diseases. Dr. King’s current research focuses on identifying and characterizing critical genes—and their interaction with environmental influences—that play a role in the development of conditions such as breast and ovarian cancer, schizophrenia and hearing loss.
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Monica Yant Kinney: Beverly Edwards Award
Monica Yant Kinney, executive director of communications and external affairs for the Vice Provost for University Life, has been awarded the Beverly Edwards Award for Leadership Excellence by her peers in Cohort 4 of the Division of Human Resources Leadership@Penn program. This award recognizes one member of each cohort for his or her personal leadership as well as contributions towards helping program colleagues enhance their knowledge and practice of leadership.
Tom Sontag, executive director of Learning & Education noted that “throughout the program, she added her honest perspective and insight, actively committing to advancing her own leadership attributes as well as those around her. A true journalist at her core, she was never content with the status quo. As a result, she has challenged her colleagues to think and act differently for the good of the University at large. She has the additional gift of delivering her point in engaging, humorous and disarming ways, often with stories conveying some personal experience. In doing this, she cultivated deeper connections with others, continuously expanding her network of people. She often took a leadership role in workgroups, actively listening to others, facilitating exchanges and helping to summarize for the cohort. A seasoned professional, she accomplishes tasks by considering all involved. She shows concern for everyone’s interest and ensures a positive outcome for students, VPUL and the Penn community.”
The award is named in memory of Beverly Edwards, who joined HR as an executive director in 1999 and was responsible for Learning and Education and HR Communications until she passed away (Almanac March 1, 2011). During her time at Penn she was an ardent supporter of leadership development and a champion for the Leadership@Penn program. Program participants are nominated by their senior leaders and required to submit an application and letters of recommendation. Leadership@Penn requires a year-long commitment to assessment, coaching, and training sessions. Dr. Edwards is remembered for her sense of humor, passion for learning and for teaching, willingness to help others, desire to make a difference and drive to excel. These are qualities to which all leaders aspire.
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Y. Tzvi Langermann: SIMS-Katz and Ruderman Fellowships
The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) and the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies announced the first recipient of the combined SIMS-Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Fellowship in Jewish Manuscript Studies and the David B. Ruderman Distinguished Scholar Fellowship in April. Y. Tzvi Langermann, professor of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and an internationally recognized authority on Hebrew and Arabic medicine and the study of scientific manuscripts, is currently in residence at Penn to research and catalog a 15th-century Sicilian medical miscellany containing texts and notes written in Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew and Arabic. The manuscript is a recent addition to the Penn Libraries’ extensive collection of medieval and early modern scientific manuscripts. Professor Langermann will share his discoveries at a public lecture in the fall of 2015.
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Leonore Annenberg Funds: Artist Fellowships, School Grants
Five emerging artists were named 2015 fellows by the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship Fund for the Performing and Visual Arts, which awards $50,000 a year for up to two years to artists who have demonstrated great talent and are on the cusp of a professional breakthrough. Fellowships totaling $300,000 were awarded to soprano Julia Bullock; pianist Sean Chen; visual artist Caitlin Cherry; actor, writer and filmmaker McKenzie Chinn; and American Ballet Theatre soloist Joseph Gorak.
In addition, nine public elementary schools in Florida, New York, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia will each receive grants of $50,000 or more from the Leonore Annenberg School Fund for Children, which provides educational resources to underfunded schools in urban and rural communities. The Leonore Annenberg School Fund’s 2015 grants total more than $500,000 for resources such as interactive whiteboards and playground equipment, programs to increase proficiency in math and science and an initiative using the arts to improve reading skills.
Both programs are administered by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at Penn.
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Christopher Marcinkoski: Rome Prize
The American Academy in Rome named Christopher Marcinkoski, assistant professor in landscape architecture at PennDesign, among 29 winners of the 2015-2016 Rome Prize Fellowship. Professor Marcinkoski’s proposal, titled “Rome, Empire Building and The City That Never Was,” was awarded the Rolland Rome Prize in the category of Landscape Architecture. The prize includes a stipend, a study or studio and room and board for a period of six months to two years in Rome, Italy.
“I am very honored to join the ranks of these scholars and have the opportunity to continue ongoing research related to the increasing proliferation of foreign-motivated speculative urbanization activities on the African continent, reflecting on them as a kind of soft empire building,” Professor Marcinkoski said. He will depart for Rome to begin the fellowship in January of 2016.
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My Brother’s Keeper Alliance
In May, U.S. President Barack Obama announced the launch of the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance (“MBK Alliance”), which aims to make the American Dream available to all boys and young men of color by eliminating gaps in their opportunities and outcomes. Penn Graduate School of Education (GSE) professor Shaun R. Harper was appointed to the MBK Alliance Advisory Council, along with Penn alumnus and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter. Penn alumnus John Legend was named Honorary Chairman of the Alliance.
Dr. Harper is the founding director of Penn GSE’s Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education. He has dedicated his career to studying the patterns that have allowed disadvantaged Black and Latino males to succeed, and searching for ways to expand those pathways to success. He also co-directs the new RISE for Boys and Men of Color initiative (Almanac February 24, 2015).
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Sindhuri Nandhakumar: Sobti Family Fellowship
The Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania announced in June that Penn alumna Sindhuri Nandhakumar, C’14, is the recipient of the 2015-2016 Sobti Family Fellowship. Established through a gift from two Penn parents, alumnus Rajiv Sobti and Slomi Sobti, the annual fellowship, now in its second year, provides funding for a recent Penn graduate to conduct independent research in India.
Ms. Nandhakumar will use her award for a nine-month research project on how English theater in India has continued to adapt and evolve in relation to the liberalization and globalization of the Indian economy. She will conduct ethnographic research in the artistic communities of Chennai and Mumbai and will be working with Theatre Nisha in Chennai and the Drama School in Mumbai.
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National Academy of Sciences Members
Dorothy Cheney, professor of biology at Penn, and Abraham Nitzan, professor of chemistry at Penn, have been elected members of the National Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Cheney’s research focuses on communication and social behavior in non-human primates. Since 1992, she has conducted long-term observational field studies of baboons in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, making insights into how social relationships and behavior relate to reproductive success. She has also studied vervet monkeys in Kenya and mountain gorillas in Rwanda.
Dr. Nitzan joined Penn’s faculty in July. His research focuses on theoretical aspects of chemical dynamics, the branch of chemistry that describes the nature of physical and chemical processes that underlie the progress of chemical reactions. In particular, his studies deal with chemical processes involving interactions between light and matter, chemical reactions in condensed phases and at interfaces, and transport phenomena in complex systems.
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Joan Ockman: Graham Foundation Grant
Joan Ockman, lecturer and Distinguished Senior Fellow in the department of architecture at PennDesign, received a Graham Foundation award in the category of publications for Architecture among Other Things, which gathers 25 essays and occasional pieces written by the author over the course of her career as an architectural critic, historian and educator. Treating a wide range of topics—from Tafuri to Times Square, Gehry to Ground Zero, the Seagram Building to the Seattle Library—the collection reflects on architecture’s adjacency to other things, on architecture as a thing, on the relationship between intellectual and material work, on the need for imagination and on the necessity of architectural criticism today. The Graham Foundation will award over $490,000 to support 63 outstanding projects.
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George J. Pappas: Heilmeier Research Award
George J. Pappas, Joseph Moore Professor and chair in the department of electrical and systems engineering, is the recipient of the 2014-2015 George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research for “fundamental contributions to embedded, hybrid and networked control systems.”
The Heilmeier Award honors a Penn Engineering faculty member whose work is scientifically meritorious and has high technological impact and visibility. Dr. Pappas’s current research interests include control theory and, in particular, hybrid systems, embedded and cyber-physical systems and hierarchical and distributed control systems, with applications to unmanned aerial vehicles, distributed robotics, green buildings and biomolecular networks.
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PCORI Research Contracts
Six Penn Medicine researchers will be awarded nearly $30 million in research funding contracts by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI):
Justin Bekelman, assistant professor of radiation oncology and medical ethics and health policy and senior fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, will receive $11.9 million for a five-year study comparing the effectiveness of proton radiation therapy vs. traditional photon radiation therapy in treating breast cancer patients, while monitoring collateral damage of healthy tissue.
Mark Neuman, assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care and senior fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, will receive $11.9 million to compare functional and survival outcomes among older adults receiving spinal versus general anesthesia for surgery to treat hip fractures.
George E. Woody, professor of psychiatry, will receive $2.05 million to study the use of an XR-NTX, a drug used to treat opiate addiction, and its effectiveness when given to prisoners before and after re-entry.
Benjamin Abella, clinical research director at the Center for Resuscitation Science, will receive $1.87 million for a study that will compare two methods—an app vs. a video—of instructing family members of cardiac patients on how to perform CPR.
Richard Aplenc, associate professor of pediatrics, will receive $1.99 million to compare outcomes such as risk for infection, quality of life and delays in treatment associated with in-hospital stays vs. discharge to home among children receiving chemotherapy.
James Guevara, associate professor of pediatrics, will receive $2.11 million to assess how effective a care manager is when helping a patient use a portal for ADHD care.
Two studies from faculty in the Perelman School of Medicine’s department of pediatrics who practice at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia will also be funded by PCORI.
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Penn-made Presidents
George Bridges, the current president of Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, has been selected as the next president of the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Dr. Bridges received his master’s in criminology (1973) and his doctorate (1979) in sociology from Penn. He is slated to start at Evergreen on October 1.
Mark C. Reed, who recently served as senior vice president for administration and chief of staff at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut, became president of St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 1. He received his doctorate in higher education management from Penn in 2008. At age 40, Dr. Reed will be the university’s youngest president since at least 1927.
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The Porch: APA National Planning Achievement Award
The Porch at 30th Street Station was one of 12 recipients of the 2015 Achievement Award from the American Planning Association (APA). The awards were given to organizations that served as examples of strong planning. For the Porch, University City District (UCD) was selected specifically as an example of a best practice for its publication, Realizing the Potential of the Porch: A Case Study in Data-Driven Placemaking. The report was prepared by Interface Studio based on research and analysis by UCD’s policy and research manager, Seth Budick.
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POST Program Grants
Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) awarded four of its 22 Pediatric Oncology Student Training (POST) Program grants to Penn students. Funded by these grants, all four students are currently training under research mentors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia:
William Fix, MD’18: FLT3 Receptor-Redirected Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells for AML and ALL
Michael Randall, MD’18: Cytotoxic Activity of an Anti-CD56 Antibody-Drug Conjugate, ab906-PBD, in Neuroblastoma
Milan Savani, C’17: Replicating Cells are Vulnerable to Mutations Induced by APOBEC3 Enzymes
Melanie Weingart, MD’18: Investigating the Role of LIN28B in Mediating Stemness/Self-renewal in Neuroblastoma
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Amos Smith: Perkin Prize for Organic Chemistry
Amos B. Smith, III, William Warren Rhodes-Robert J. Thompson Professor of Chemistry in Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences, received the 2015 Perkin Prize for Organic Chemistry from the Royal Society of Chemistry for his continued outstanding contributions to new organic reaction development, complex natural product total synthesis and new small molecules for medicinal chemistry.
Dr. Smith’s research encompasses three diverse areas: development of innovative synthetic methods with wide application, demonstration of the utility of these synthetic tactics for the rapid construction of complex natural and unnatural products with significant bio-regulatory properties and novel bio-organic/medicinal chemistry programs. In each area, he and his collaborators exploit the power of organic synthesis to improve human health.
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Joseph Subotnik: The Journal of Physical Chemistry & Dreyfus Awards
Joseph Subotnik, associate professor of chemistry in Penn Arts & Sciences, received a 2015 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award in May. The award provides an unrestricted research grant of $75,000.
Dr. Subotnik also received the 2015 The Journal of Physical Chemistry B Lectureship Award. His award encompasses biophysical chemistry, biomaterials, liquids and soft matter. One of three winners for 2015, Dr. Subotnik will deliver a lecture at the American Chemical Society Fall National Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts in August.
His work involves the dynamics of electron and energy transfer, particularly in the case of solar energy. He seeks to understand how the energy is captured, stored and used efficiently, versus wasted by producing heat, and has developed models that resolve many of the ambiguities in previous theories.
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Beth Wenger: Center for Jewish History
The Center for Jewish History announced that its Academic Advisory Council has elected Beth S. Wenger, professor and chair of Penn’s department of history, as its new chair. The Academic Advisory Council serves as a bridge between the institution and scholars at all career levels who make use of the vast collections of research materials available within the Center’s partner institutions. “On behalf of the Center for Jewish History and its five partners, I congratulate Beth on this very well-deserved appointment,” said Joel Levy, president and CEO, of the Center. “Through Beth’s leadership, the Center can continue to promote meaningful engagement with our collections among scholars, historians, and members of the public.”
Dr. Wenger is the author of History Lessons: The Creation of American Jewish Heritage, The Jewish Americans: Three Centuries of Jewish Voices in America and New York Jews and the Great Depression: Uncertain Promise.
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Inn At Penn: AAA Elite Status
The Inn at Penn has achieved a four-diamond rating from the American Automobile Association (AAA). This superior rating from AAA categorizes hotels as refined and stylish with upscale physical attributes, extensive amenities and a high degree of hospitality, service and attention to detail. The Inn at Penn, a Hilton Property, has achieved this status for its 15th consecutive year. Being an AAA four-diamond property showcases the Inn at Penn’s dedication to all areas of hotel and travel services.
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