Penn’s Ivy Plus Provost Leadership Fellows will participate in the 2024-2025 Institute on Inquiry, Equity and Leadership of the Faculty Advancement Network, a consortium of 13 research universities collaborating to advance diversity and inclusion. The goal of the institute is to provide faculty leaders the tools and skills of inquiry needed to lead their respective departments and/or disciplines toward increased diversity, equity, inclusion, and inclusive excellence. Joann Mitchell, Senior Vice President for Institutional Affairs and Chief Diversity Officer, and Laura W. Perna, Vice Provost for Faculty, serve as Penn’s Steering Committee members for the Faculty Advancement Network.

Kimberly L. Gallagher, professor and chair of biology in the School of Arts & Sciences, studies the mechanisms by which cells send signals and share information with each other, especially intercellular signaling to communicate positional information and coordinate development.

Sara Jaffee, Class of 1965 Professor and chair of psychology in the School of Arts & Sciences, is a developmental psychopathologist who conducts research on at-risk families and children, especially how stressful environments exacerbate biobehavioral vulnerabilities to affect children’s development and antisocial behavior.

Boon Thau Loo, RCA Professor of computer and information science and senior associate dean for education and global initiatives in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, applies data-centric techniques to improve the process of designing, implementing, verifying, and securing large-scale distributed systems.

Lisa Mitchell, professor and chair of South Asia studies in the School of Arts & Sciences, studies transnationally circulating political ideas and practices, multiple genealogies of democracy in India, Indian democracy between elections, and the street and the railway station as spaces of political communication.

Ravi Radhakrishnan, professor and Herman P. Schwan Chair of Bioengineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, works at the intersection of chemical physics and molecular biology to provide molecular-level characterizations of complex biomolecular systems and microscopic models for predicting the interactions of therapeutic agents.