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  • Historian Mia Bay receives the Order of the Coif 2022 Book Award

    The Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History, has received the Order of the Coif 2022 Book Award for “Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance.”

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  • Jennifer Morton receives 2023 Grawemeyer Award in Education

    The Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor of Philosophy is the 2023 recipient of the Grawemeyer Award in Education for her study of the ethical sacrifices made by first-generation and low-income university students.

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  • Seven things to know about ‘The Waste Land’ at 100

    Jed Esty, Vartan Gregorian Professor of English, discusses the radicalism and relevance of the T.S. Eliot poem.

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  • David Young Kim’s ‘Groundwork’ named one of the best books of 2022 by Artforum International

    In “Groundwork: A History of the Renaissance Picture” Kim asks viewers to start from the ground and consider it central and the figure second.

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  • Max Cavitch receives Excellence in Journalism Prize

    The associate professor of English has received the 2022 Excellence in Journalism Prize from the American Psychoanalytic Association for his blog, “Psyche on Campus.”

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  • DivE In event bolsters diversity and accessibility in mind-related fields

    Penn’s second annual DivE In (Diversity and Equity Initiative) weekend focused on improving diversity in fields that are related to the study of the mind, such as psychology, neuroscience, biology, linguistics, and sociology, and placing a specific focus on facilitating doctoral applications.

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  • Michael E. Mann honored With Stroud Award for Freshwater Excellence

    The Stroud Water Research Center has awarded the 2022 Stroud Award for Freshwater Excellence to the Presidential Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science and director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media for being a leading voice for climate change.

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  • PPR Director Cary Coglianese chairs new NASEM committee evaluating the statutory authorities of the U.S. Coast Guard

    Cary Coglianese, the Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, has been named the chair of an ad hoc National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) committee formed to identify emerging issues that are likely to demand U.S. Coast Guard services over the next decade and consider whether the Service’s existing statutory authorities are sufficient to meet this demand, and, if not, where the Service’s authority could be bolstered.

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  • OMNIA Q & A: Symposium ethnohistory workshop

    Young scholars from Latin America discuss their experience at a three-week workshop on “Dispossessions in the Americas,” hosted by The Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies.

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  • Sophia Rosenfeld appointed Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the North

    The Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History has been appointed Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the North by the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.

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