In the recent Spring 2019 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.

Jaimo Ahn, PSOM, Characterization of a critical bone progenitor population in the aging skeleton

Masoud Akbarzadeh, Weitzman, High-performance compression-only modular hollow glass structures: innovative engineering and use of material for ultra-transparent long-span structures 

Paulo Arratia, SEAS, High-Throughput Microfluidic Device for Precision-Targeted Multigenetic Functional Genomics

Roberto Bonasio, PSOM, Regulation of social behavior by oxytocin in ants

*Kathleen Brown, SAS, The Penn & Slavery Project Campus Tour: Reimagining Penn’s History through Augmented Reality

Sanjeev Chawla, PSOM, Ultrahigh-field MR Imaging Identification of IDH Mutant Glioma Patients with Poor Prognosis

*Karen Detlefson, SAS, Early Modern European Woman Philosophers

Nathaniel Dyment, PSOM, Defining the functional role of a unique cell population during tendon fibrillogenesis

Christopher Favilla, PSOM, Personalized Patient and Caregiver Education after Stroke

*Roquinaldo Ferreira, SAS, Empire, Sovereignty, and Labor in the Age of Global Abolition

Marc Fuccillo, PSOM, Bridging the gap between synaptic and network dysfunction in mouse neuropsychiatric disease models

Vivian Gadsden, GSE, Building Evidence-based Data Models for Philadelphia to Enhance Child, Family and Community School Readiness

Juan Sebastian Gil Riano, SAS, Redeeming Race?: Anti-Racist Science and Postcolonial Development in the Twentieth Century

*Glenda Goodman, SAS, American Contact: Intercultural Encounter and the History of the Book

Deep Jariwala, SEAS, Atomically-thin Electronic Materials as New Tools for Cell-Stimulation

*Anna Kashina, SVM, Posttranslational Biology Symposium

*David Kazanjian, SAS, New Directions in Armenian Studies

Daeyeon Lee, SEAS, Anti-Fouling and Self-Cleaning Hollow Fiber Ceramic Membranes for Solar Desalination

*Marc Meredith, SAS, 2019 Election Sciences, Reform and Administration (ESRA) conference

*Projit Mukharji, SAS, Collaborative Pedagogies in the Global History of Science

*Rahul Mukherjee, SAS, Elemental Archives: Environmental Research in Documentary Arts

Kavindra Nath, PSOM, Optimization of Therapeutic response in Metastatic-Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer

Amy Offner, SAS, The Disappearing Worker

*Donovan Schaefer, SAS, Material Secularisms

Howard Stevenson, GSE, When “other” becomes “self”. Virtual reality’s role in reducing implicit racism and fostering positive attitude and helping behaviors towards African American Youth

Alan Stocker, SAS, Understanding visual working memory formation

Julia Verkholantsev, SAS, Medieval Etymology and the Writing of History, Monograph

*Jeremy Wang, SVM, Penn Vet SSC Transplantation 25th Anniversary Symposium

*Doug Wiebe, PSOM, Reframing Injury as a Biopsychosocial Disease to “Stop it, Fix it, and Live on”

*Dagmawi Woubshet, SAS, The Legacy of 1619: The 2019 Annual Callaloo Conference

Richard Zettler, SAS, Building a Regional Chronology: Excavations at Gird-i Dasht in the Soran District, Iraqi Kurdistan