In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Brendan O’Leary, Lauder Professor of Political Science, has been awarded the James S. Donnelly Sr. Prize for the best book in History and Social Science from the American Conference on Irish Studies for his book, A Treatise on Northern Ireland.
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The assistant professor of Africana Studies is a scholar of religion and society in Africa and its diaspora. The Presidential Professorships are five-year term chairs, awarded to outstanding scholars, whose appointments to the standing faculty are approved by the Provost and who demonstrably contribute excellence and diversity to Penn’s inclusive community.
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Balkin’s solo and collaborative work explores and re-imagines humans’ relationships to the natural world and how planetary resources have been used and valued. She will be in residence in Philadelphia for two short-term stays in the spring and fall of 2020. The two residency periods coincide with major public events organized by PPEH which Balkin will also participate in and will include at least one public workshop for the Penn community.
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Bracho is the first Abrams Artist-in-Residence in Penn Arts & Sciences, in the Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. Bracho is a writer, editor, and teacher who has worked in community and university, theater and video/film, politics and aesthetics for the past 29 years.
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Manuel de la Cruz Gutierrez joined Penn’s Biomedical Library in 2014 as the director of Data & Innovation Services, and is involved with the Perelman School of Medicine’s long-standing partnership with a group of Guatemalan universities and Maya communities.
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The new College of Liberal & Professional Studies Online Certificate in Neuroscience, Neuroscience 100, is the online survey class on the structure and function of the nervous system launched this fall, with students joining from as far away as Europe and Asia.
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Howard Neukrug, Professor of Practice and Executive Director of The Water Center at Penn, discusses the underlying factors that led to the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, and what can be done to minimize similar problems in the future.
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Crawford specializes in 20th- and 21st-century African American literature, cultural movements, and visual art, and radical black imaginations and the global dimensions of black aesthetics. She succeeds Camille Z. Charles, who directed the center from 2009 until this year.
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Marc Meredith, associate professor of political science, assesses the Supreme Court rulings on gerrymandering and the census.
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The assistant professor of history of art received the award from the Association of Print Scholars for an article published by an early-career scholar that features compelling and innovative research on prints or printmaking.
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