In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Each year, the University honors student leaders who are graduating with two awards: President & Provost’s Honor for Developing New Initiatives in Graduate & Professional Student Life and the Dr. Andy Binns Award for Outstanding Service to Graduate and Professional Student Life.
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The Moritz and Josephine Berg Professor of History ranks among the leading historians of American Jews in the U.S. and Israel, and is one of the most distinguished scholars of her generation. The Friedman Award biennially recognizes a scholar of American Jewish studies for excellence in research and teaching and service to the field.
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Penn Libraries have aimed to acquire more materials related to South Asian folk and tribal traditions, with particular interest in arts and performance. Additional funding last year allowed for a directed purchase of several hundred volumes related to South Asian painting, textiles, music, and dance.
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This fall, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School will welcome Cara McClellan as the founding director and Associate Practice Professor of the Advocacy for Racial and Civil Justice Clinic, the Law School’s newest in-house clinic, which will provide students with hands-on experience working in civil rights litigation and policy advocacy around systemic racism.
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The cohort for the 2022–23 academic year will engage the theme of Jews and Modern Legal Culture, hailing from Israel, France, Germany, Canada, and the United States, and representing a range of methodological, disciplinary, and historical specializations.
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LDI senior fellows and associate professors at Penn’s School of Nursing Adriana Perez and Margo Carthon co-edited a special journal edition focused on how cultural conditions influence social determinants of health.
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When it comes to keeping charlatans out of high-skilled professions like medicine or financial services, regulatory barriers such as licensing or certification could result in higher prices for consumers, according to a study co-authored by Wharton’s Jules H. van Binsbergen.
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Some people who have never experienced social anxiety in the past may go through reentry anxiety with COVID restrictions easing. For most people, these feelings and worries will likely disappear the more they engage with others. Anxiety expert Hillary Ammon, an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry in the Perelman School of Medicine, says that reentry may be a challenge for someone who suffers from social anxiety—an anxiety disorder that causes extreme fear in social settings.
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Beans Velocci, a postdoctoral fellow in history and sociology of science, has received the John D’Emilio LGBTQ History Dissertation Award from the Organization of American Historians. The award is given annually for the best Ph.D. dissertation in U.S. LGBTQ history. Velocci’s dissertation, Binary Logic: Race, Expertise, and the Persistence of Uncertainty in American Sex Research, studies American scientific research into sex between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries.
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The 25 students into the class of 2025 SNF Paideia Fellows are a select group of undergraduate students committed to developing the knowledge, skills, and values needed for effective, ethical, and civil dialogue in a diverse world.
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