I. Joseph Kroll, Ph.D., has won an Outstanding Junior Investigator award - one of about three per year in high energy physics - from the U.S. Department of Energy. The $300,000 award will be spread over several years. Kroll's research is in experimental high energy particle physics - specifically B hadrons - examining data from proton-antiproton collisions produced at Fermilab in Batavia, Ill.
Andrew M. Rappe, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry, was one of 20 young scientists nationwide to be selected this year for a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, which supports young faculty in the sciences. The $60,000 award includes $5,000 to go for undergraduate educational purposes to Rappe's department, chemistry, and no more than $5,000 for institutional administrative purposes. The remaining $50,000 goes to Rappe and his research into tailoring molecule-surface properties.
Best tooth teachers
The School of Dental Medicine cited five faculty for teaching excellence last month:
Bal Goyal, D.M.D., associate professor of restorative dentistry, and Nathan Kobrin, B.D.S., clinical assistant professor of restorative dentistry, both received the Robert E. DeRevere Award for excellence in pre-clinical teaching by a part-time faculty member.
Nasrin Satat-Larijani, D.M.D., assistant porofessor of clinical education in restorative dentistry, won the Joseph L.T. Appleton Award for excellence in clinical teaching.
Scott DeRossi, D.M.D., assistant professor of oral medicine, was given the Earle Bank Hoyt Award for an alumnus who is a full-time jurnior clinical faculty member.
Elliot Hersh, D.M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of oral surgery and pharmacology and director of pharmacology and therapeutics, was given the Basic Science Award for excellence in teaching basic science.
Griffin Pitt, right, works with two other student researchers to test the conductivity, total dissolved solids, salinity, and temperature of water below a sand dam in Kenya.
Griffin Pitt’s upbringing made her passionate about water access and pollution, and Penn has given her the opportunity to explore these issues back home in North Carolina and abroad.
Helping robots work together to explore the Moon and Mars
Penn Engineers, NASA, and five other universities tested robotic systems designed to help unmanned explorers cooperate in the dunes of White Sands, New Mexico, paving the way for Moon and Mars exploration.
From framework to actions: Provost John L. Jackson Jr. talks Penn Forward
In a Q&A, Provost John L. Jackson Jr. explains the relationship between the strategic framework In Principle and Practice and Penn Forward—a new University-wide process and action plan that will advance Penn forward for the next decade and beyond.
