In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Music professor Carol Muller, who also directs the minor in jazz and popular music studies, is being recognized for her work on projects that engage Penn graduate and undergraduate students in music, arts, and wellness partnerships with the West Philadelphia/Philadelphia community through Academically Based Community Service.
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Wale Adebanwi, Jennifer Morton, and Keisha-Khan Y. Perry have joined the School of Arts & Sciences as Presidential Penn Compact Professors, which was conceived by President Gutmann as a partnership with Penn Arts & Sciences to promote faculty excellence and diversity.
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Matthew Stitt, a 2012 graduate of the Fels Institute of Government, is joining Fels as a Distinguished Fellow. Stitt will help Fels students engage in critical policy issues and create a more diverse and equitable public sector. He will lead a speaker series on racial equity and social justice, support internships and student mentorship, and connect students and alumni.
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In this Lightbulb Café, Josephine Nock-Hee Park, Professor of English and Director of the Asian American Studies Program, and Herman Beavers, Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt President’s Distinguished Professor of English and Africana Studies, discuss teaching poetry and finding antiracist solidarity in poetic movements of the past and present.
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Joseph Francisco, President’s Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society (APS). Election to APS honors extraordinary accomplishments in all fields.
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Associate Professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science Harun Küçük, a historian of early modern Ottoman science, will be assuming the leadership of the Center on July 1, 2021.
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MindCORE (Mind Center for Outreach, Research, and Education) has received funding from the National Science Foundation for an integrated paid 10-week summer research experience for eight visiting undergraduate students.
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The assistant professor of chemistry and Elliman faculty fellow, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award to investigate some of the earliest and most important steps involved in converting sunlight to energy.
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The professor of biology and chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, has been elected a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America, which recognizes the many ways in which its members contribute to ecological research and discovery, communication, education and pedagogy, and management and policy.
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Hakiem Ellison, a political science major minoring in urban education, has received a 2021 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Involvement Recognition Award for his community service in West Philadelphia, where he grew up.
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