In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The associate professor of religious studies is appointed to the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, with joint appointment to the U.S.-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange.
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The Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought has received the 2022 Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion from the American Academy of Religion.
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The Karen I. Goldberg, Vagelos Professor of Energy Research, has been selected as the recipient of the 2023 William H. Nichols Medal of the American Chemistry Society for her pioneering work in organometallic reaction mechanisms.
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Penn Arts & Sciences has awarded three Klein Family Social Justice grants to these faculty-led projects: Personalized, Accelerated Science Learning, led by Lori Flanagan-Cato, an associate professor of psychology; Free State Slavery and Bound Labor: Pennsylvania, led by Sarah Barringer Gordon, a professor of history and the Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law, and Kathleen Brown, the David Boies Professor of History; and Kitchen Science: A Platform for Inclusive and Accessible Outreach, led by Arnold Mathijssen, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy.
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How do you define a category that includes hundreds of cultures and languages and millennia of history? Penn Arts & Sciences programs are advancing knowledge about Asia and Asian populations.
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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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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 Department of Economics has been gifted Lawrence Robert Klein’s 1980 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences medal. Klein was awarded the medal for the creation of econometric models and their application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies. He was a professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania from 1958 until his retirement in 1991.
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The 2022 Ecotopian Toolmakers for Delaware Watershed Justice will be featured in public workshops at ISM and in the Museum’s community gallery exhibit, as well as in a fall 2022 workshop at Penn for a print Catalog for Ecotopian Tools and companion digital exhibit.
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Bhattacharya is a fiction and nonfiction writer whose short stories and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and National Geographic, among other publications. She is the editor of the anthology “Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion,” which received an Independent Publisher Book Award.
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