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Daniel Blackey: Critical Language Scholarships
A Penn student, Daniel Blackey and a recent alumnus, William Dossett, have been awarded Critical Language Scholarships. They are among approximately 560 US undergraduate and graduate student CLS scholarship recipients this year.
Daniel Blackey, a rising sophomore from Charlotte, North Carolina, is studying Mandarin at Shaanxi Normal University in Xi’an, China. An alumnus of the National Security Language Initiative for Youth, Mr. Blackey has studied Chinese with the Confucius Institute at the University of Minnesota in Shanghai, China. He recently attended the 2016 National Chinese Language Conference in Chicago as an intensive language study abroad presenter.
William Dossett, C’16, from Nashville, Tennessee, was also a recipient.
The Critical Language Scholarship Program is part of a US government effort to expand the number of Americans studying and mastering critical foreign languages.
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Kathleen Burke: Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education
Kathleen G. Burke, assistant dean for clinical nurse learning & innovation, has been elected a member of the Board of Commissioners for the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). She will serve as the representative to professional consumers.
CCNE is an autonomous accrediting agency that ensures the quality and integrity of baccalaureate and graduate nursing education programs and nurse residency programs.
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Ronald Fairman: President, Society for Vascular Surgery
Ronald M. Fairman, a vascular surgeon with a multidisciplinary practice at Penn Medicine, was elected president of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) at the organization’s annual meeting in June. As president of the 5,400-member organization, Dr. Fairman will chair a board of directors of more than two dozen vascular surgery leaders, and will oversee four governing councils, 26 committees and 400 volunteer members. In addition, he will lead the efforts of more than 20 full-time SVS employees in the society’s Chicago and Washington, D.C. offices.
Dr. Fairman is chief of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy and has a dual faculty appointment, as Clyde F. Barker–William Maul Measey professor in surgery and professor in radiology. In 2015, he was inducted as a member of the Academy of Master Clinicians, Penn Medicine’s highest clinical honor.
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Mark Lemmon: Royal Society Fellow
Mark Lemmon, an adjunct professor of biochemistry & biophysics at Penn, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge. He was formally admitted at a ceremony on July 15.
Dr. Lemmon had been the George W. Raiziss Professor in Biochemistry and Biophysics, and chair of the department of biochemistry and biophysics, at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine, where he taught for almost 20 years, before accepting a position at Yale University in 2015. Dr. Lemmon credited his status as a Fellow to the amazing environment and extraordinary support at Penn.
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Jo-Ana Chase and Alma Vega: Butler-Williams Scholars Program
Two Penn Nursing postdoctoral research fellows from the NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health—Alma Vega and Jo-Ana Chase—were selected for the National Institute on Aging’s (NIA) Butler-Williams (B-W) Scholars Program, held in July on the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Maryland.
The B-W Scholars Program is sponsored by the NIA, with support from the National Hartford Centers of Gerontological Nursing Excellence, and accepts 50 scholars annually.
During the NIA B-W Scholars Program, Dr. Vega discussed her proposal to study the personal costs of informal family caregiving among immigrant communities and resulting savings to Medicaid and Medicare programs. Dr. Chase discussed her proposed study using national CMS data to investigate racial/ethnic disparities in physical functioning outcomes among older adults receiving home care after hospitalization.
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Neil Tomson: Charles E. Kaufman Foundation Grant
Neil Tomson, assistant professor in the department of chemistry, in the School of Arts & Sciences, was awarded a grant from the Charles E. Kaufman Foundation for research on coordination chemistry and catalysis using molecular-scale electric fields. The foundation awarded a total of eight grants. Dr. Tomson received one of four, two-year New Investigator grants of $150,000.
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China Research & Engagement Fund
The Provost’s Office announced nine awards from the Penn China Research and Engagement Fund for the 2016-2017 academic year. The Penn China Research & Engagement Fund is a competitive grant program designed to stimulate and support activity in China and engagement with the Penn Wharton China Center.
The recipients for the 2016-2017 academic year are:
Hanming Fang (SAS): Political Factions, Local Accountability and Economic Performance: Evidence from Chinese Provinces
Mauro Guillen (Wharton) with Fred Dickinson (SAS): The New East Asia
Kathryn Hellerstein (SAS): China and Ashkenazic European Jewry: Transnational Encounters
Howard Hu (Engineering): SEAS Global Immersion in China
Thomas Parsons with David Galligan, Gary Althouse (Veterinary Medicine): Improving the Productivity, Efficiency and Sustainability of Chinese Pork Producers
Megan Ryerson (Design & Engineering): Planning for Large-Scale Aviation Growth on the Ground and in the Air in China
Jianbo Shi with Shu Yang (Engineering): Symposium and Summer School on “Pattern Recognition and Human Centered Robotics”
Christopher Yoo (Law) with Joseph Harrington (Wharton): A Comparison of Chinese, EU and US Competition Law and Policy
Minyuan Zhao (Wharton): Employee Mobility and Employee Entrepreneurship in China
For more information about the Penn China Research & Engagement Fund, visithttps://global.upenn.edu/global-impact/penn-china-research-engagement-fund Please email global@exchange.upenn.edu with any questions.
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Yasmin Kafai and Orkan Telhan: National Science Foundation Grant
Two Penn researchers—Yasmin B. Kafai, professor at PennGSE, and Orkan Telhan, assistant professor at PennDesign — were awarded a two-year, $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of its National Week of Making in June.
The grant was one of five new, early-concept grants created to promote do-it-yourself technological innovation and to catalyze new approaches in STEM learning.
Drs. Kafai and Telhan will develop and implement bioMAKERlab, a wetlab starter kit and activities that will enable high school students and teachers to engage in synthetic biology by building genetic circuits that enable microorganisms to change color, smell and shape.
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David Spafford: NEH Fellowship
David Spafford, assistant professor of East Asian languages & civilizations, has been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to study the corporate warrior house in Japan from 1450 to 1650. He is researching the social functions of the warrior house, exploring in particular practices and ideas about family identity, survival and legacy.
Dr. Spafford’s research interests include the history of late medieval and early modern Japan. His book A Sense of Place: The Political Landscape in Late Medieval Japan examines the vast Kant? region as a source of cultural identity and an object of familial attachment during the political and military turmoil of the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
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Raymond Townsend: Physician of the Year Award, American Heart Association
Raymond R. Townsend, director of the Hypertension Program and a professor of medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named the 2016 Physician of the Year Award of the American Heart Association (AHA).
The Physician of the Year Award is presented to one person each year with direct patient care responsibilities who has demonstrated an exemplary commitment to furthering the AHA’s mission to build healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke. Dr. Townsend, a member of the AHA since 1986, accepted this honor during the 2016 Awards Luncheon in Dallas.
Dr. Townsend became a Fellow of the AHA in 1993. He has served as faculty for the AHA Hypertension Summer School, co-chaired the Program Committee and served on the National AHA Professional Education Committee. He has also served on the Council on Hypertension Professional Education and Publication Committee, as well as the American Society of Hypertension liaison to the Council on Hypertension Professional Education and Publication Committee, and on the Council on Hypertension Program Committee. Dr. Townsend has been a reviewer and contributor for the journal Hypertension for more than 20 years.
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Sharon Hayes, Ken Lum and Brian Phillips: Pew Center Funding
Three PennDesign faculty members— Sharon Hayes, Ken Lum and Brian Phillips (M.Arch’96)—have received funding from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage for new research and public programs. Penn alumna Kelsey Halliday Johnson (MFA’12) also received funding.
Ms. Hayes received a $75,000 Pew Fellowship. Hayes employs various media to probe the complex intersections of history, politics and speech within private and public spaces. Her current large-scale project, Ricerche, uses a series of single-channel video, photo, projection and performance installations for an inquiry into sexuality in contemporary America.
Philadelphia Mural Arts received a $300,000 grant for Monument Lab: A Citywide Public Art and History Exhibition, which is co-produced by Mr. Lum. Monument Lab builds on a 2015 public-art project curated by Lum, Paul Farber of Haverford College and A. Will Brown, of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design.
Mr. Phillips, architect and lecturer in the department of architecture and principal at Interface Studio Architects, received a $60,000 grant for a yearlong project that will survey and document 15 Philadelphia row houses, as well as the families and stories within them, across five different neighborhoods selected by distinct phases of city development over the past 200 years. An exhibition planned for 2017 will allow visitors to experience the diverse and nuanced histories of communities through the lens of individual homes and their physical and social transformations and adaptations through time.
Ms. Johnson, curator at Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, received a $60,000 grant to present the exhibition Making/Breaking the Binary: Women, Art & Technology 1970-1985.
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Jonathan Wood: Tillman Scholar
Jonathan Wood, a student pursuing a joint degree in medicine and business administration from the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM) and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, was named the 2016 Tillman Scholar by the Pat Tillman Foundation. Mr. Wood, a US Air Force veteran, is the first PSOM student to receive this prestigious award recognizing US service members, veterans and military spouses for leadership and excellence by investing in their higher education.
Mr. Wood joined PSOM in 2013 at age 32 as the oldest member of his class. His ambitions to help lead a nationwide movement to inspire service-minded clinicians to practice in underserved urban communities in the United States motivated him to combine his medical degree with a master’s in business administration.
Before enrolling at Penn, Mr. Wood served as a US Air Force intelligence officer for eight years, including four deployments, and eventually earned the rank of captain.
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RealArts@PENN Summer Interns
RealArts@PENN, a project of Penn’s Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing (CPCW), has announced the recipients of its paid summer internships for 2016:
Journalism, Editorial, Publications, Print
Downtown Bookworks Inc. (New York City)—Sarah Eisler
Flathead Beacon (Montana)—Amanda Rubano
Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia)—Taylor Hoskinga
Philadelphia Magazine (Philadelphia)—David Murrell, Esther Yoon
Pitchfork Media (New York City)—Corey Smith-West
McSweeney’s & the Believer (San Francisco)—Maura Reilly-Ulmanek
Museums
Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia)—Joya Mandel-Assael
Morgan Library and Museum (New York City)—Hannah Judd
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco)—Siyona Ravi
The Jewish Museum (New York City)—Matthew Eisenberg
Music
Shore Fire Media (New York City)—Mark Paraskevas
Television & Film
20th Century Fox (Los Angeles) - Brooklyn Films (Los Angeles)—Nina Zhang
David Stern and Stuart Gibbs, Writers (Los Angeles)—Nathaniel McLeod
Di Novi Pictures (Los Angeles)—Nolan Boyer
Focus Features (Los Angeles)—Daniel Kahana
Grandview (Los Angeles)—Matthew Cardonick
Management 360 (Los Angeles)—Timothy Bloom, Jennifer Schofield
Tremolo Productions (Los Angeles)—Tyler Burke
Viacom Catalyst: Creative + Strategy (New York City)—Harley Geffner
Theater
1812 Productions (Philadelphia)—Sydney Rodriguez
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Penn Museum & Walnut 32 Garage: Preservation Alliance Awards
The Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia named two Penn projects among the winners of the 2016 Preservation Achievement Awards:
• The West Wing Renovations at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Recognized for their involvement are the University of Pennsylvania; Samuel Anderson Architects; McClure Engineering; Severud Consulting Engineers; Nash Lighting Design; Lorenzon Brothers Co.; and Hunter Roberts Construction Group.
• Walnut 32 Parking Garage, University of Pennsylvania. Recognized for their involvement are the University of Pennsylvania; Keast & Hood Structural Engineers; Paul Steege & Associates; International Consultants Inc.; Mara Restoration; and Schnabel Conservation, LLC.
Both projects were chosen as Grand Jury Award winners. They were recognized at the 23rd Annual Preservation Achievement Awards on June 8 at the Union League of Philadelphia.
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