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May 24, 2016, Volume 62, No. 35 |
Global Engagement Fund Awards
Penn Global announced seven awards from the Global Engagement Fund for the 2015-2016 academic year. This fund is designed primarily to support projects that collaborate across Schools and disciplines; involve multiple faculty members; engage regions in which Penn has active academic partnerships and collaborative ventures; and catalyze new research and engagement in a global context.
The recipients are:
• Ted Abel (SAS), Roberto Bonasio (PSOM): Deciphering the Epigenetic Control of Memory Impairment Following Malnourishment During Development in India
• Peter Conti-Brown (Wharton), David Zaring (Wharton): The Global Institutions of Financial Regulation
• Glen Gaulton (PSOM), Antonia Villarruel (Nursing): Penn in Latin America Conference 2016
• Devesh Kapur (SAS), Jere Behrman (SAS), Michel Guillot (SAS): Penn India reSEARCH: A Collaboration for High-Impact Health and Demographic Research
• Laura Perna (GSE), Matt Hartley (GSE): Multi-Disciplinary Local Case Studies on Higher Education Reform in India
• Heather Schofield (PSOM): The Impact of Pain Reduction on Productivity and Cognitive Function: A Penn-IFMR Collaboration in India
• Michael Weisberg (SAS), Deena Skolnick Weisberg (SAS), Erol Akçay (SAS), Tim Linksvayer (SAS): Engaging the Local Community to Study Invasive Species in the Galápagos Archipelago
Descriptions of each project and more information about the Global Engagement Fund can be found at: https://global.upenn.edu/gef/2015-2016-recipients
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History of Art Students: Leab Award
In March, a group of Penn students from André Dombrowski’s fall 2014 curatorial seminar received the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Leab Exhibition Award for the catalog for their exhibition in the Penn Libraries, “The Image Affair: Dreyfus in the Media, 1894-1906.”
Dr. Dombrowski, an associate professor in the history of art department in the School of Arts & Sciences, worked with five students, Lindsay Grant, Gloria Huangpu, Glynnis Stevenson, Jamie Vaught and Hilary Whitham, who researched, curated and selected items for the 2015 exhibit and created an accompanying catalog. Working with Andrea Gottschalk, exhibition designer and coordinator of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, and Dr. Dombrowski, the students produced a full-color, 133-page, illustrated exhibition catalog.
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Vanessa Ogle: ACLS Fellowship
Vanessa Ogle, the Julie and Martin Franklin Assistant Professor of History at Penn, was selected in March for a 2016-2017 Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. These Fellowships allow scholars to spend six to 12 months researching and writing full-time.
Dr. Ogle specializes in modern Europe, historical globalization, political economy and imperialism and colonialism in Europe and the Middle East. Her selection was based in part on her book, Archipelago Capitalism: Tax Havens, Offshore Money and the Shadow Economy, 1920s-1980s, which explores the British, German, French, American and Swiss governments’ involvements with tax havens, economic zones, flags of convenience and offshore currency markets.
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Jessica Anna: Early Career Award
Jessica Anna, an assistant professor of chemistry and Elliman Faculty Fellow at Penn, received a 2016 Early Career Award from the Office of Science of the US Department of Energy (DOE). This funding opportunity for researchers in universities and DOE national laboratories supports the development of individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers and stimulates research careers in the disciplines supported by the DOE Office of Science.
Dr. Anna’s project, “Tracking Photochemical and Photophysical Processes for Solar Energy Conversion via Multidimensional Electronic and Vibrational Spectroscopic Methods,” was selected by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences for this honor.
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BioCellection: Wharton Business Plan Competition Winner
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania announced that student team BioCellection won the $30,000 Perlman Grand Prize of the 2016 Wharton Business Plan Competition (BPC)—as well as the Wharton Social Impact Prize, the Gloeckner Undergraduate Award, the Michelson People’s Choice Award and the Committee Award for Most ‘Wow Factor,’ making them the first team in BPC history to win five awards.
Founded by Penn undergraduates Miranda Wang, C’16, Alexander Simafranca, C’18, and Eric Friedman, C’16, and their teammates, Jeanny Yao and Daniel Chapman, BioCellection converts unrecyclable plastics into valuable materials using genetically engineered bacteria. They are the first undergraduate team to win the grand prize, awarded last month at the Wharton School’s annual Venture Finals.
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Alison Buttenheim and Mark Devlin: Summer Undergraduate Research Group Grants
The Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania announced last month that Alison Buttenheim and Mark Devlin are the inaugural recipients of the Summer Undergraduate Research Group Grant (SURGG). SURGG will provide grants of as much as $27,500, including $10,000 for research expenses, with the rest to cover stipends for teams of as many as five undergraduates.
Dr. Buttenheim is an assistant professor of nursing and health policy in Penn’s School of Nursing. She will lead undergraduates in a study examining the role of financial incentives in smoking cessation programs during pregnancy.
Dr. Devlin is the Reese W. Flower Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics in Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences. He will direct undergraduates in ongoing work on the Experimental Cosmology Group’s Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST), scheduled to launch above Antarctica this December.
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2016 Center for Africana Studies Student Prizes
Penn’s Center for Africana Studies has announced the winners of its 2016 student prizes.
The John Edgar Wideman Prize in Africana Studies: Nneamaka P. Okonneh
The Buchi Emecheta Prize in African Studies: Madeleine A. Wattenbarger
The W.E.B. Du Bois Prize in Africana Studies: Tatiana M. Hyman
The Nnamdi Azikiwe Prize in African Studies: Adebisi A. Ogunrinde
The African Studies Senior Thesis Prize: Arame Niang
The Raymond Pace Alexander Prize in Africana Studies: Danielle T. Joe
The Arthur Fauset Award: Adebisi A. Ogunrinde and Abel J. McDaniels
Award for Best Dissertation in African Studies: George S. MacLeod
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Peter F. Davies: Cambridge University Higher Doctorate
Peter F. Davies, a professor of pathology & laboratory medicine in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine, was awarded the ScD (doctor of science) degree from Cambridge University last month. A Cambridge alumnus, Dr. Davies completed his PhD at Darwin College in 1975. The ScD is one of six Higher Doctorates at the University of Cambridge awarded for academic distinction and authority in a field of knowledge over the course of a career.
This Higher Doctorate caps multiple honors that Dr. Davies has received for seminal research in both cardiovascular pathophysiology and biomechanics. Continuously funded by the NIH since 1979, he is a pioneering investigator in cell and molecular mechanotransduction and a leading authority on the role of hemodynamic mechanisms in vascular physiology and atherogenesis.
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Sherrill Davison: PennAg Distinguished Service Award
PennAg Industries Association honored Sherrill Davison, an associate professor of avian medicine & pathology at Penn Vet, with its Distinguished Service Award for outstanding accomplishments in the agriculture industry. This award is presented each year to one industry and one non-industry recipient. Dr. Davison, who is director of the Laboratory of Avian Medicine & Pathology at New Bolton Center and serves as Penn Vet’s agriculture spokesperson, received the non-industry award in March.
Dr. Davison earned her BA in biology from Penn in 1979, her veterinary degree from Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine in 1983, her MS in epidemiology from Penn Med in 1988 and her MBA from Penn’s Wharton School in 2004. She has been integrally involved in the development of the control and prevention programs for avian influenza, Salmonella enteritidis, vaccinal infectious laryngotracheitis and Mycoplasma gallisepticum for the Pennsylvania poultry industry.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson: Henry Allen Moe Prize
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at Penn, was selected as the 2016 recipient of the American Philosophical Society’s Henry Allen Moe Prize in recognition of her paper, “Implications of the Demise of ‘Fact’ in Political Discourse.” She received the award at the Society’s meeting last month.
The prize, awarded annually, honors the author of a paper in humanities or jurisprudence read at a meeting of the Society. Dr. Jamieson’s award-winning paper was presented at the Society’s 2013 meeting and was subsequently published in the March 2015 Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. The article examines ways in which fact, and institutions that are “custodians of the knowable,” have come under partisan attack, and ways in which duplicitous advertising can undermine governance.
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New Members: National Academy of Sciences
Three Penn faculty members were elected to the National Academy of Sciences earlier this month in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Marsha I. Lester is the Edmund J. Kahn Distinguished Professor in the department of chemistry in Penn Arts & Sciences.
Andrea J. Liu is the Hepburn Professor in the department of physics & astronomy, also in Penn Arts & Sciences.
Amita Sehgal is the John Herr Musser Professor of Neuroscience in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine.
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Rogers Smith: Member, American Philosophical Society
Rogers Smith, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, has been elected a member of the American Philosophical Society (APS).
Dr. Smith is associate dean for the social sciences in Penn Arts & Sciences and has a secondary appointment in Penn’s Graduate School of Education. He studies constitutional law, American political thought and modern legal and political theory, with special interests in questions of citizenship, race, ethnicity and gender. In 2006, he founded the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship & Constitutionalism, which he has since chaired. He also co-chairs the Advisory Council of the Teachers Institute of Philadelphia, a collaboration between Penn and the School District of Philadelphia.
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