A roundup of appointments and awards for various members of Penn’s faculty across several schools.
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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.”
School of Arts & Sciences’ Associate Professor of History Sarah Gronningsaterreceived 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.
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.
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