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.
Materials in the Annenberg School for Communication Library Archives include thousands of TV scripts, the first issue of TV Guide, and interviews about the early days of HBO—which help to chronicle TV’s 100-year story.
Centering joy in AI development and implementation
PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton—of Annenberg and SP2—and collaborators introduce a joy-informed framework designed to initiate conversations among engineers, designers, and researchers.
Winter Storm Fern brought icy and snowy conditions to the Northeast and other parts of the country over the weekend. Penn Today asks physicist Robert Carpick about the unique properties of ice, the science of curling, and how close we are to ‘nonslip’ ice.
Organizations like Penn’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships foster collaborations between Penn and public schools in the West Philadelphia community.
Penn receives national distinction for community engagement
The recognition by the American Council on Education and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching acknowledges Penn’s long-standing commitment to community-engaged scholarship and partnerships in West Philadelphia and beyond.
