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The associate professor of psychology will receive a 2021 Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of her achievement as an early-career researcher, and to further empirical research within the broad spectrum of experimental psychology.
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Kristina Lyons and Marilyn Howarth collaborated last semester on the course Transdisciplinary Environmental Humanities, which combined two languages across hemispheres to address issues of environmental justice throughout communities in Colombia
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Virgil Percec, the P. Roy Vagelos Professor of Chemistry, has been elected to the Academia Europaea, which was established in 1988 and is the Pan-European Academy of Sciences Humanities and Letters.
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The Crossroads Project, co-directed by the associate professor of religion and Africana studies, was awarded a $1 million grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. The Crossroads Project: Black Religious Histories, Communities, and Cultures is a new initiative based in the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University. Butler will co-lead the creation of a digital archive of materials related to Black religious life in the U.S.
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The album Catharge, with music composed by James Primosch, Dr. Robert Weiss Professor of Music, has received a Grammy nomination for Best Choral Performance. Carthage was recorded by The Crossing, with Donald Nally conducting.
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The 2021 Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research award celebrates Murray's seminal deep contributions to algebraic deformation theory and modern homological algebra.
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Sanchez’s research and teaching focus on feminism, queer theory, and sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, and she has been a Core Faculty member in Penn’s Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program since 2006.
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Omnia looks back on books from three faculty whose contributions to the conversation on race and social justice have stood the test of time: “Black Resistance/White Law: A History of Constitutional Racism in America,” published in 1971 by Mary Frances Berry; “Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty,” published in 1988 by Dorothy Roberts; and “Thicker Than Blood: How Racial Statistics Lie,” published in 2001 by Tukufu Zuberi.
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The Behavior Change for Good Initiative at the Wharton School and School of Arts and Sciences has partnered with Walmart to conduct the largest-ever communication research study aimed at increasing flu vaccinations during the Fall 2020 flu season. The results of the study will be well-timed to assist with encouraging COVID-19 vaccinations.
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Monuments and who and what they represent have been a subject of intense national discourse. Missing from that conversation is the presence—or lack thereof—of Black women in the making of monuments and as the subject of monuments, says Dixon Li, a doctoral candidate in English.
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