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Sanchez’s research and teaching focus on feminism, queer theory, and sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, and she has been a Core Faculty member in Penn’s Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program since 2006.
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The 2021 Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research award celebrates Murray's seminal deep contributions to algebraic deformation theory and modern homological algebra.
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Hannah Cao and Jennifer Bulcock will be working with Associate Dean for Inclusion Jerri Bourjolly, and the Advisory Committee on Race and Social Justice to implement critical schoolwide projects centered on diversity, inclusion, intersectionality, and social justice.
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Omnia looks back on books from three faculty whose contributions to the conversation on race and social justice have stood the test of time: “Black Resistance/White Law: A History of Constitutional Racism in America,” published in 1971 by Mary Frances Berry; “Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty,” published in 1988 by Dorothy Roberts; and “Thicker Than Blood: How Racial Statistics Lie,” published in 2001 by Tukufu Zuberi.
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The Years of Service award recognizes Mary Mazzola for her tenure of over two decades in the profession, emphasizing her creative and innovative approach to admissions and the ongoing support and mentorship that she has provided to colleagues throughout her career.
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“Spanish for Law,” a new program offered by the Office of International Affairs, is designed to shrink the fluency gap by helping Spanish-speaking students become confident using Spanish legal terminology.
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Penn ranks 7th overall in the area of Diversity and Affordability and 5th overall in the area of Transportation. Sustainable Campus Index recognizes top-performing sustainable colleges and universities overall and in 17 impact areas, as measured by the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System.
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Organized by LDI and the Penn School of Nursing, the “Expanding Scope of Practice After Covid-19” conference brought together 15 top experts in every aspect of restrictive state scope of practice laws for advance practice registered nurses and other health professionals.
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The first installment of six prison newspapers is now available for reading by Penn students, faculty, and staff on the JSTOR platform. Presenting newspapers written and published by incarcerated people from within federal and state prisons nationwide, American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020: Voices From The Inside aims to offer a quarter-million page-images with searchable fulltext from more than 300 prison newspaper titles when completed.
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The Center for Hybrid Approaches in Solar Energy to Liquid Fuels has been awarded a Department of Energy grant focused on the production of fuels from sunlight. The $40 million grant, over five years, will accelerate fundamental research on solar technology in order to meet the increasing needs for clean and renewable energy sources.
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