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Six University of Pennsylvania Professors Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Six University of Pennsylvania faculty members have been named Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. They are among 190 new Fellows and 22 Foreign Honorary Members recognized as leaders in science, arts and humanities, business, public affairs and the nonprofit sector.The new AAAS Fellows at Penn are:• Mitchell A. Lazar, professor of medicine and genetics in the School of Medicine.
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University of Pennsylvania Faculty Members to Receive Lindback, Provost's Teaching Awards
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Two Penn Professors Win 2008 Guggenheim Fellowships
PHILADELPHIA – Michael Leja, professor of art history in the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences and Don Mitchell, a visiting scholar in residence in Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication have been awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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Penn Students Vie for Top Prizes in Annual Invention Competition: PennVention
PHILADELPHIA –- The Weiss Tech House, a student-run hub of technological innovation at the University of Pennsylvania, announced today the 11 student inventions that will compete in the fourth annual PennVention competition.
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Penn’s Fox Leadership Program Partners With Girl Scouts for “Stand Up!” Leadership Workshop April 5
WHO:Junior Girl Scouts from West and North PhiladelphiaFox Leadership Program at the University of Pennsylvania Girl Scouts at Penn ClubGirl Scouts of Eastern PennsylvaniaWHAT:“Stand Up!” leadership, self-esteem and self-defense workshopWHERE:Irvine Auditorium, 3401 Spruce St.WHEN: WHO:
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Penn Researcher Explores a Lost Port City of the Mycenaeans in the Region of the Trojan War
PHILADELPHIA –- Along an isolated stretch of the eastern shoreline of Greece, a University of Pennsylvania classics professor and his colleagues are unlocking the secrets of a partially submerged “lost” harbor town believed to have been built by the Mycenaeans 3,500 years ago.
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Penn to Hold Fourth Annual Criminology Day April 4
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Two Students From Penn Win Truman Scholarships
PHILADELPHIA –- A pair of University of Pennsylvania juniors are among 65 students from 55 U.S. colleges and universities elected as 2008 Truman Scholars by 17 independent selection panels on the basis of leadership potential, intellectual ability and likelihood of “making a difference.”
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University of Pennsylvania Chemist and Mathematician Awarded Sloan Research Fellowships
PHILADELPHIA -– Tobias Baumgart, assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, and Joachim Krieger, assistant professor of mathematics at Penn, have been named Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows for 2008.
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Penn Engineering Receives $7.5 Million to Develop Cooperation Principles for Robot Teams
PHILADELPHIA –- The University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science has received a five-year, $7.5 million grant to draw inspiration from biological organisms, including humans, in order to create principles of cooperation to control teams of next-generation, unmanned, robotic vehicles.