In the recent Fall 2018 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.

Fall 2018: URF Awards

Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano, SAS, Poetics of Empire: Literature and Political Culture at the Early Modern Ottoman Court (1452-1512)

Keith Bredemeier, PSOM, Enhancing Working Memory to Reduce Undesirable and Persistent Thoughts (ERUPT): Development of an Adjunctive, Transdiagnostic Intervention

Eugene Buckley, SAS, Kashaya Fieldwork and Database

Robert Carpick, SEAS, Novel Hydrogel Coatings for Intrinsically Lubricating Condoms

Kimberly Christian, PSOM, Functional Role of Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Learning and Memory

Jean-Christophe Cloutier, SAS, Shadow Archives: The Lifecycles of Black Literary Papers

Julie Davis, SAS, Publication Subvention for Two Books: Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty; Ukiyo-e in Context

*John Detre, PSOM, Richards-Goddard Interdisciplinary Neuroscience “Brainspace” Forum

*David Dillenberger, SAS, Decision Theory at Penn

Walter Englander, PSOM, Protein Biophysics and Function by Hydrogen Exchange and Mass Spectrometry

*Charles Epstein, SAS, A Conference in Memory of Richard V. Kadison: Titan of the Penn Mathematics Department

*Tulia Falleti, SAS, Indigenous Politics in the Americas

Dalmacio Flores, Nursing, Parents Advancing Supportive and Sexuality Inclusive Sex Talks

Grant Frame, SAS, Completing the Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria (668-631 BCE)

*Reto Giere, SAS, Environmental Justice and Health Disparities in the US

*Glenda Goodman, SAS, Early American Music and the Construction of Race

Nicholas Hand, PSOM, Development of a Novel RISC-Trap Mouse Model to Study miRNA function in Vivo

Sophie Hochhäusl, Design, Memories of the Resistance: Women, War, and the Forgotten Work of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzsky

Daniel Hopkins, SAS, Trump and the Racialization of Contemporary Americans’ Political Attitudes

F. Bradley Johnson, PSOM, Modeling Dyskeratosis Congenita Lung Pathology to Develop Therapeutic Approaches

*Michael Kahana, SAS, Context and Episodic Memory Symposium 2019

Mia Levine, SAS, Epigenetic Regulation of Reproductive Arrest

Zhongjie Lin, Design, Constructing Utopias: China’s Emerging New Town Movement

James Lok, Veterinary Medicine, Regulatable CRISPR/Cas9 Mutagenesis in Parasitic Nematodes

Michele Margolis, SAS, Who is a Christian in the Age of Trump? Understanding the Consequences of Religious Identification in Politics

*Michael May, Veterinary Medicine, VMD-PhD 50th Anniversary Symposium

*Enrique Mendoza, SAS, Frontiers of Business Cycle Research 25th Anniversary Conference

Peter Noël, PSOM, Ultra-low Dose PET/CT—Reducing the Integral Radiation Dose for each Patient

*Mitchell Orenstein, SAS, Social Impacts of Post-Socialist Transition and Policies for the Future

Laura Perna, GSE, What is the Statutory, Regulatory and Financial Framework for Supporting Learner-Centered Education in K-12 Schools and Civic Engagement in Higher Education

Laurel Redding, Veterinary Medicine, Veterinarian Perspectives on Antimicrobial Stewardship Metrics

*Donald Ringe, SAS, 38th East Coast Indo-European Conference

Marc Schmidt, SAS, Using Computer Vision to Study the Effect of Targeted Neural Circuit Perturbations on Social Behavior in Songbirds

Theodore Schurr, SAS, Exploring African Ancestry in Archeological and Modern Populations from Charleston, South Carolina

Terenjit Sevea, SAS, Publications and Open-access Digital Archive of Southeast Asian Islam and Sikhism

Fatemeh Shams, SAS, Book Project: A Revolution in Rhyme: Official Poets of the Islamic Republic

*Nancy Steinhardt, SAS, Middle Period Archaeology in Mongolia

*Dawn Teele, SAS, The Political Economy of Gender Interdisciplinary Conference

*Franca Trubiano, Design, Architectural Theory Now?, International Conference

Julia Verkholantsev, SAS, Medieval Etymology and the Writing of History, a Digital Resource

Flavia Vitale, PSOM, Closed-loop Living Deep-brain Stimulation: a Multimodal Approach to Treat Parkinson’s disease

*Bethany Wiggin, SAS, Environmental Storytelling and/in Virtual Reality

*Ken Zaret, PSOM, Cellular Plasticity Symposium