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University Research Foundation Awards and Conference Support Awards Spring 2010
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September 21, 2010, Volume 57, No. 04


In the most recent cycle, Spring 2010, of Penn’s internally-funded University Research Foundation, and URF Conference Support (noted with *), the Office of the Vice Provost for Research has announced awards to the following members of the faculty for the projects listed below.



Cheikh Babou, School of Arts and Sciences, History; Making Room for Islam in the West: West African Muslims in Europe and North America

*Charles Bernstein, School of Arts and Sciences, English; North of Invention

Maja Bucan and Deborah French, School of Medicine, Genetics and Pathology; Genomic profiling of fibroblast and stem cells in mental disorders

Julio Chirinos, School of Medicine, Medicine; Synergistic effect of weight loss and therapy for obstructive sleep apnea on blood pressure and left ventricular hypertrophy

D. Kacy Cullen, School of Medicine, Neurosurgery; Biomechanics of Concussion: Pathobiological Implications of Acute Cellular Damage

Mark Devlin, School of Arts and Sciences, Physics and Astronomy; Novel Cryogenic Techniques for Astronomical Instrumentation

*Frank Diebold, School of Arts and Sciences, Economics; Penn/Cambridge Conference on the Economics of Finance

*Emma Dillon, School of Arts and Sciences, Music; Cantus Scriptus: Technologies of Medieval Song

*Ron Donagi, School of Arts and Sciences, Mathematics; String Mathematics

David Grazian, School of Arts and Sciences, Sociology; The Social World of a City Zoo

Toshinori Hoshi, School of Medicine, Physiology; BK channels as a potential therapeutic target in Alzheimer’s disease

Brett A. Kaufman, School of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Biology; Regulation of mitochondrial DNA stability and expression by the mitochondrial transcription factor TFAM

David Kazanjian, School of Arts and Sciences, English; Yucatec Maya Summer Institute/Liberdad: The Caste War in the Atlantic World

Justin Khoury, School of Arts and Sciences, Physics and Astronomy; New Gravitational Realm on Cosmological Scales

Daeyeon Lee, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Microfluidics-Engineering of Microbubbles for Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging and Drug Delivery

Matthew Levendusky, School of Arts and Sciences, Political Science; The Political Consequences of Partisan Media

Frank Luca, School of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Biology; Tumor suppressor-dependent regulation of mRNA localization in yeast

Anuradha Mathur, School of Design, Landscape Architecture; SOAK: Mumbai in an Estuary - Pre-project Phase Development

Lisa A. Murphy, School of Veterinary Medicine, Pathobiology; Analysis of mycotoxins related to animal health

E. Michael Ostap, School of Medicine, Physiology; Matching funds for the purchase of Laser Trap

Arjun Raj, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Bioengineering; Measuring chromosome structure and gene expression in a single cell

*Howard C. Stevenson, School of Education, Education; Kasserian Ingera—Let Us Make The Children Well!

Thomas F. Tartaron, School of Arts and Sciences, Classical Studies; Documenting a 3,300-Year-Old Harbor Town in Greece

Claudia R. Valeggia, School of Arts and Sciences, Anthropology; Life history trajectories among the Toba of Argentina

*Charles Yang, School of Arts and Sciences, Linguistics; 41st North East Linguistic Society Meeting

Honglin Zhou, School of Medicine, Emergency Medicine; Negative regulation of KLF4 transcription factor by Akt in vascular cells

Almanac - September 21, 2010, Volume 57, No. 04