In the recent Fall 2017 cycle of Penn’s internally-funded University Research Foundation, URF Conference and Impact Seminar 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.

Masoud Akbarzadeh, Design; Ultra Lightweight, High Performance Structural Elements: Innovative Design, Analysis, and Fabrication Using 3D Graphic Statics

*Erol Akcay, SAS; The unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics in biology

Melpo Christofidou-Solomidou, PSOM; Novel anti-inflammatory strategy: Myeloperoxidase activity inhibition by a small molecule

Cynthia Connolly, Nursing; Nurses and Human Experimentation: A Twentieth Century History

*Eva Del Soldato, SAS; Strategies of Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

*Ivan Dmochowski, SAS; XeMAT 2018

Ivan Drpic, SAS; Gold in Medieval Serbian Painting

*Chenoa Flippen, SAS; Mini-Conference on The Future of Immigration Scholarship

Scott Francis, SAS; Scandal and Adiaphora in Marguerite de Navarre

Feng Gai, SAS; Development of Amino Acid-Based Fluorescence Probes for Biological Microscopy

*Geoff Goodwin, SAS; The Psychology of Sustainable Consumption: Perception, Purchasing, Policy, and Promotion

David Grazian, SAS; The Culture of Coworking in the New Economy

Ronald Harty, Veterinary Medicine; Regulation of Tight Junction Integrity by Ebola Virus VP40

Daniel Hopkins, SAS; Understanding Voters in the Trump Era: A 13-Wave Panel Survey

Sara Jacoby, Nursing; Way to Recovery: Assessing the acceptability and feasibility of a technology-assisted remote monitoring intervention for injury recovery in trauma patients

Thomas Jongens, PSOM; Brain insulin signaling in an Alzheimer’s disease model

*Ada Kuskowski, SAS; Gothic Arts: An Interdisciplinary Conference

*Zachary Lesser, SAS; Reading, Writing, Printing: A Conference in Honor of Peter Stallybrass

*Lin Li, PSOM; Second Britton Chance International Symposium on Metabolic Imaging/Spectroscopy

*Benjamin Lockwood, Wharton; Conference on Normative Ethics and Welfare Economics

Holly Lynch, PSOM; Evaluating IRB Quality: Identifying Goals and Measures

Monica Mainigi, PSOM; The Role of the Microbiome on Uterine Lymphocytes and Fertility

Marc Meredith, SAS; Who Votes Without Photo Identification?

Foteini Mourkioti, PSOM; Trf2 in heart development and disease

Projit Mukharji, SAS; Casting Genetics: History of Genetic Researches into Caste in India c. 1918-84

Carol Muller, SAS; The Faith of Our Fathers: Archiving the Religious Underground in Apartheid South Africa

*Holly Pittman, SAS; Cities in the Ancient World

Alain Plante, SAS; Environmental fate of dissolved pyrogenic and geogenic carbon

Kevin Platt, SAS; Subvention for Global Russian Cultures, forthcoming at University of Wisconsin Press

Alex Rees-Jones, Wharton; A method for testing reference points

Celia Reina, SEAS; Towards a data-driven coarse-graining strategy out of equilibrium

*Megan Robb, SAS; Unstable Objects in South Asia: Gender, Digital History and What to do with Things

Lawrence Rome, SAS; How swimbladder hyperinflation helps midshipman fish’s superfast muscle generate continuous 100 Hz hour-long mating calls

Jennifer Ruger, SP2; Research Opportunity (RODG)—Phase 2 Global and Domestic Health Equity, Policy and Law

Florian Schwarz, SAS; Building a Comprehensive Library for Online Experiments in IBEX

*Emily Steinlight, SAS; NVSA 2018: Unfinished Victorians

*Deborah Thomas, SAS; Muslim Masculinities: A Symposium on Gender, Religion, and the Everyday

John Trueswell, SAS; Cognitive Connections between Spoken Sentence Comprehension and Learning to Read

Charles Yang, SAS; The linguistic basis of natural numbers

*Barbie Zelizer, Annenberg; Center for Media at Risk Launch Conference