The annual University-wide initiative to foster diversity and inclusion known as the Excellence Through Diversity Fund, is awarded annually by the Provost’s office. This year’s awardees are:

Ezekial J. Dixon-Román, associate professor, SP2; Project Title:  Control Societies: Technocratic Forces & Ontologies of Difference

Karen Redrobe, professor, SAS; Project Title:  Signs of Inclusion: Making the Public Humanities Accessible to the Deaf Community

Emily Steiner, professor, SAS; Project Title: Networks in the Humanities (NET-Hum)

Stephanie Abbuhl, professor, PSOM; Project Title: Penn Pathways

Sophie Hochhausl, assistant professor, Weitzman School of Design; Project Title: Aesthetics of Difference: Excellence and Diversity in Design

Dagmawi Woubshet, assistant professor, SAS; Project Title: The Legacy of 1619: The 2019 Annual Callaloo Conference

Maria Velasco, assistant clinical professor, Dental Medicine; Project Title: Hispanic Dental Association Regional Student Conference

Harald Schmidt, assistant professor, PSOM; Project Title: World Congress on Bioethics—paper and post sessions on “Underrepresented minorities: emerging issues”