In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The Weitzman School’s Gonick Family Professor was appointed by President Joe Biden to the ACHP, an independent federal agency comprised of 24 statutorily designated members from federal agencies, preservation organizations, Indian tribes, and expert private citizens.
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The Vagelos Professor of Energy Research and director of the Vagelos Institute of Energy Science and Technology has been elected to this year’s class of American Chemical Society Fellows.
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A team of researchers from Penn’s Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Communication has received a $4 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to identify ways to increase vaccination rates, focusing on the drivers of acceptance of an anticipated HIV vaccine.
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Weitzman School of Design professor Masoud Akbarzadeh and Ph.D. architecture students Yao Lu, Hua Chai, Teng Teng, and Yefan Zhi from the Polyhedral Structures Laboratory presented a total of six research papers at the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures 2023 in Melbourne Australia in July.
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Graduate group chair Franca Trubiano and architecture Ph.D. student Ji Yoon Bae from the Weitzman School of Design both presented research papers at the UIA 2023 World Congress of Architecture in Copenhagen, Denmark in July.
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The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) announced has awarded Annenberg School for Communication doctoral student Julia Cope for her paper “Capturing Climate Claims: A computational text analysis of energy company press releases.”
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The associate professor of anthropology, became the first associate faculty director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India on July 1.
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The international convening of the highest decision-making body on sustainable urbanization and human settlements in the world, convened from June 5-9 in Nairobi, Kenya. Eugenie L. Birch, Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education at Weitzman and co-director of the Penn Institute for Urban Research gave input on 10 resolutions that were ultimately approved by the UNHA.
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A new survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center finds that the American public is ill-informed about RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, unfamiliar with its most common symptoms, and more hesitant to recommend a vaccine against it to pregnant people than to older adults.
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Richard Weller, professor of landscape architecture and co-executive director of The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism & Ecology at the Weitzman School of Design, was presented with the inaugural LAF Legacy Award at the Landscape Architecture Foundation’s June 14 annual awards event. The LAF Legacy Award was created in 2023 by the LAF to recognize past members of the LAF Board of Directors who provided extraordinary service and contributions to the organization and its legacy.
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