The National Jewish Book Awards highlight the best new English-language Jewish books and their authors in a range of categories.
Hellerstein is an associate professor of Yiddish in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures in Penn Arts & Sciences. Her books include Anthology of Women Yiddish Poets (forthcoming), In New York: A Selection (translations of Moyshe-Leyb Halpern) and Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky. She is co-editor of Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology. Her many scholarly articles on Yiddish literature and, most recently, Yiddish literature about China are published in journals, anthologies and encyclopedias.
Hellerstein has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, as well as from the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities and Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at Penn.
The Jewish Book Council awards will be presented on March 11 at the Center for Jewish History in New York.
Nanoparticle blueprints reveal path to smarter medicines
New research involving Penn Engineering shows detailed variation in lipid nanoparticle size, shape, and internal structure, and finds that such factors correlate with how well they deliver therapeutic cargo to a particular destination.
A generous gift from alumni Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman brings the work of internationally acclaimed artist Jaume Plensa to the University of Pennsylvania. The latest addition to the Penn Art Collection expands Philadelphia's public art.
A massive chunk of ice, a new laser, and new information on sea-level rise
For nearly a decade, Leigh Stearns and collaborators aimed a laser scanner system at Greenland’s Helheim Glacier. Their long-running survey reveals that Helheim’s massive calving events don’t behave the way scientists once thought, reframing how ice loss contributes to sea-level rise.
