In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The Environmental Justice Hub will launch in May 2021, with the goal to gather and organize curricular resources for environmental justice education at the secondary school and in higher education. Currently, collaborators are gathering for Working Wednesdays sessions to brainstorm project development.
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The Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Natural Sciences in the Department of Psychology was awarded the Howard Crosby Warren Medal for her foundational cognitive neuroscientific work on face and object recognition, visual attention, mental imagery, and semantic memory and recent work investigating the influence of early life experience on neurocognitive development.
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The assistant Professor of Psychology, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award for her work combining approaches in neuroscience, psychology, and education to predict and improve science learning in early elementary school students.
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In February 2021, faculty experts examined the promise and perils of big data and technological innovations that may lead to sustainable energy.
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PPEH public research intern and climate storyteller Tsemone Ogbemi considers how climate stories and the art of translation overlap.
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The gift provides financial aid to support approximately half of the high school juniors and seniors who are selected to participate in the program, guaranteeing that applicants can join the program on the basis of their talent and potential as writers.
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The associate dean for the natural sciences and professor of psychology has been selected as the 2021 recipient of the award from the OSA for his experimental and theoretical contributions to our understanding of how the visual system resolves the ambiguities inherent in sensory signals to produce a stable percept of object color.
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The Center for Soft and Living Matter will be a joint endeavor between the School of Arts & Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Science, led by director Andrea J. Liu, Hepburn Professor of Physics, and associate director Douglas J. Durian, professor of physics.
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The James M. Skinner Professor of Science was selected for his pioneering research on optical sensing in scattering media, especially diffuse optical and correlation spectroscopy and tomography, and for advancing the field of biophotonics through mentorship.
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The assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy was selected for the Outstanding Young Researcher Award (Macronix Prize) by the International Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers. The award is given annually to one to two physicists and/or astronomers of Chinese ethnicity working in North America, Europe, or other regions outside Asia, to encourage and recognize contributions in physics or astronomy.
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