Fall 2018 University Research Foundation Awards

Fall 2018 University Research Foundation Awards

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research has announced awards (Conference and Seminar Support denoted by *) for the following members of the faculty for the projects listed below.

Fall 2018 University Research Foundation Awards

  • Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano, SAS, Poetics of Empire: Literature and Political Culture at the Early Modern Ottoman Court (1452-1512)
  • Keith Bredemeier, PSOM, Enhancing Working Memory to Reduce Undesirable and Persistent Thoughts (ERUPT): Development of an Adjunctive, Transdiagnostic Intervention
  • Eugene Buckley, SAS, Kashaya Fieldwork and Database
  • Robert Carpick, SEAS, Novel Hydrogel Coatings for Intrinsically Lubricating Condoms
  • Kimberly Christian, PSOM, Functional Role of Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Learning and Memory
  • Jean-Christophe Cloutier, SAS, Shadow Archives: The Lifecycles of Black Literary Papers
  • Julie Davis, SAS, Publication Subvention for Two Books: Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty; Ukiyo-e in Context
  • *John Detre, PSOM, Richards-Goddard Interdisciplinary Neuroscience “Brainspace” Forum
  • *David Dillenberger, SAS, Decision Theory at Penn
  • Walter Englander, PSOM, Protein Biophysics and Function by Hydrogen Exchange and Mass Spectrometry
  • *Charles Epstein, SAS, A Conference in Memory of Richard V. Kadison: Titan of the Penn Mathematics Department
  • *Tulia Falleti, SAS, Indigenous Politics in the Americas
  • Dalmacio Flores, Nursing, Parents Advancing Supportive and Sexuality Inclusive Sex Talks
  • Grant Frame, SAS, Completing the Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria (668-631 BCE)
  • *Reto Giere, SAS, Environmental Justice and Health Disparities in the US
  • *Glenda Goodman, SAS, Early American Music and the Construction of Race
  • Nicholas Hand, PSOM, Development of a Novel RISC-Trap Mouse Model to Study miRNA function in Vivo
  • Sophie Hochhäusl, Design, Memories of the Resistance: Women, War, and the Forgotten Work of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzsky
  • Daniel Hopkins, SAS, Trump and the Racialization of Contemporary Americans’ Political Attitudes
  • F. Bradley Johnson, PSOM, Modeling Dyskeratosis Congenita Lung Pathology to Develop Therapeutic Approaches
  • *Michael Kahana, SAS, Context and Episodic Memory Symposium 2019
  • Mia Levine, SAS, Epigenetic Regulation of Reproductive Arrest
  • Zhongjie Lin, Design, Constructing Utopias: China’s Emerging New Town Movement
  • James Lok, Veterinary Medicine, Regulatable CRISPR/Cas9 Mutagenesis in Parasitic Nematodes
  • Michele Margolis, SAS, Who is a Christian in the Age of Trump? Understanding the Consequences of Religious Identification in Politics
  • *Michael May, Veterinary Medicine, VMD-PhD 50th Anniversary Symposium
  • *Enrique Mendoza, SAS, Frontiers of Business Cycle Research 25th Anniversary Conference
  • Peter Noël, PSOM, Ultra-low Dose PET/CT—Reducing the Integral Radiation Dose for each Patient
  • *Mitchell Orenstein, SAS, Social Impacts of Post-Socialist Transition and Policies for the Future
  • Laura Perna, GSE, What is the Statutory, Regulatory and Financial Framework for Supporting Learner-Centered Education in K-12 Schools and Civic Engagement in Higher Education
  • Laurel Redding, Veterinary Medicine, Veterinarian Perspectives on Antimicrobial Stewardship Metrics
  • *Donald Ringe, SAS, 38th East Coast Indo-European Conference
  • Marc Schmidt, SAS, Using Computer Vision to Study the Effect of Targeted Neural Circuit Perturbations on Social Behavior in Songbirds
  • Theodore Schurr, SAS, Exploring African Ancestry in Archeological and Modern Populations from Charleston, South Carolina
  • Terenjit Sevea, SAS, Publications and Open-access Digital Archive of Southeast Asian Islam and Sikhism
  • Fatemeh Shams, SAS, Book Project: A Revolution in Rhyme: Official Poets of the Islamic Republic
  • *Nancy Steinhardt, SAS, Middle Period Archaeology in Mongolia
  • *Dawn Teele, SAS, The Political Economy of Gender Interdisciplinary Conference
  • *Franca Trubiano, Design, Architectural Theory Now?, International Conference
  • Julia Verkholantsev, SAS, Medieval Etymology and the Writing of History, a Digital Resource
  • Flavia Vitale, PSOM, Closed-loop Living Deep-brain Stimulation: a Multimodal Approach to Treat Parkinson’s disease
  • *Bethany Wiggin, SAS, Environmental Storytelling and/in Virtual Reality
  • *Ken Zaret, PSOM, Cellular Plasticity Symposium

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Originally published in the Almanac on February 12, 2019.