Awards and accolades for Penn faculty

In December, Flavia Teles, a professor in the Department of Basic & Translational Sciences at Penn Dental Medicine, was awarded the 2025 American Academy of Periodontology 2025 Clinical Research Award for her paper, “Salivary and serum inflammatory biomarkers during periodontitis progression and after treatment.”

University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Presidential Professor of Law Lisa M. Fairfax was named the 2026 Patricia J. Williams Award recipient by the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section of Race and Private Law. And Professor of Law Sandra Mayson was named a recipient of the 2025 Legal History Article of the Year Prize by the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation for “Bail at the Founding,” published in volume 137 of the Harvard Law Review. 

School of Arts & Sciences’ Associate Professor of History Sarah Gronningsater received two more distinctions for her book about historical race relations, “The Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom.” These include the William Nelson Cromwell Book Prize from the American Society for Legal History, which honors the best first book in U.S. legal history by an early career scholar, and honorable mention from the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.

Desmond Upton Patton, Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with appointments appointments at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice and the Annenberg School for Communication, along with secondary appointments at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Perelman School of Medicine, was selected to join the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare’s Class of 2026 Fellows.

And in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Boon Thau Loo, RCA Professor in Computer and Information Science and Penn Engineering’s senior associate dean for Graduate Education and Global Initiatives; André DeHon, Boileau Professor of Electrical Engineering in Electrical and Systems Engineering; and Haim H. Bau, Richard H. & S. L. Gabel Professor of Mechanical Engineering in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, were named 2025 Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors.