Fall 2019 University Research Foundation Awards

Fall 2019 University Research Foundation Awards

In the recent Fall 2019 cycle of Penn’s internally funded University Research Foundation, the Office of the Vice Provost for Research has announced research, conference and impact seminar awards to the following members of the faculty for the projects listed below. URF Conference and Impact Seminar Support are noted with *.

Fall 2019 University Research Foundation Awards

• Francesca Ammon, Design, Preserving Society Hill: Sites and Stories of Urban renewal in a Philadelphia Neighborhood
• *Etienne Benson, SAS, What is a Field? Historical and Contemporary Transformations in Scientific Practice
• Lawrence Brass, PSOM, Communication between platelets and endothelial cells
• Russ Carstens, PSOM, Function of the germ cell-specific RNA binding protein RBM46 in spermatogenesis
• Robert DeRubeis, SAS, Online Single-session Interventions to Improve College Student Mental Health: A Randomized Trial with Indian College Students
• Zahra Fakhraai, SAS, Towards Rational Design of Nanostructured Anisotropic Materials; Kinetic Pathways Underlying Block Copolymer Self-Assembly
• *Nelson Flores, GSE, Centering Black Students in Language Education
• *Scott Francis, SAS, Atelier Franco-American Workshop
• Glenda Goodman, SAS, Strategic Sounds: Native American Music in the Era of Colonial Conquest
• *Philip Gressman, SAS, Conference Support: Mid-Atlantic Analysis Meeting
• Jonathan Heckman, SAS, Geometry and Physics of Extra Dimensions
• Randall Kamien, SAS, Metachemistry: Molding and Morphing with Magnets
• Melanie Kornides, Nursing, Developing a brief digital intervention targeted to parents with HPV vaccine concerns
• *Zachary Lesser, SAS, The Society for Textual Scholarship annual conference
• *Richard M. Leventhal, SAS, The Penn Culture Heritage Center Annual Meeting on Community Archaeology and heritage
• *Mona Merling, SAS, Mid-Atlantic Topology Conference
• *Anna Papafragou, SAS, Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) meeting, June 10-12, 2020
• Amish Patel, SEAS, Uncovering Super-hydrophilic Chemical Patterns
• Holly Pittman, SAS, Lagash Archaeological Project Second Season of Excavations
• Enrico Radaelli, SVM, Dissecting the Role of Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Ferroptosis in the Pathogenesis of Impaired Spermatogenesis
• Shelley Rankin, SVM, Community Population Prevalence of Carbapenem Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) in Dogs and Cats
• Abby Reisman, GSE, Investigating a Virtual Instructional Coaching Model for Philadelphia History Teachers
• Nicole Rust, SAS, The role of dopamine in perirhinal cortex and novelty seeking
• Eileen Shore, PSOM, Regulation of Cell Fate Decisions: Bone and Fat
• *Daniel Singer, SAS, Agent-based Models of Juries and Scientific Communities
• Sarita Sonalkar, PSOM, HIV Pre-exposure prophylaxis in cisgender women seeking family planning care: a multidisciplinary approach
• Krystal Strong, GSE, Re/Member Black Philadelphia: A Multimodal Storytelling Collaboration
• *Liliane Weissberg, SAS, On Commentary: Philosophical and Literary Genealogies
• Daniel Wodak, SAS, Sincerity and Polarization in Presidential Approval Polling
• *Liang Wu, SAS, Workshop on new development on topological materials

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Originally published in the Almanac on February 25, 2020.