In the fall 2023 cycle of Penn’s internally funded University Research Foundation, the Office of the Vice Provost for Research gave awards to the following members of the faculty for the projects listed below. Note: URF conference support is noted with an asterisk.

• Millan AbiNader, School of Social Policy and Practice, Developing a Suicidal Behavior Intervention in Emergency Department Settings for Victims and Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence
• Daud Ali, School of Arts and Sciences, South Asia Studies, History from the Margins: Memory, Local Knowledge and the Past in South India, 1600-1900
• Nadine Al-Naamani, Perelman School of Medicine, Medicine, Impact of low resistance exercise on quality of life in pulmonary arterial hypertension
• Juan Alvarez, Perelman School of Medicine, Cell and Developmental Biology, Coordination of DEC1 clockwork and insulin rhythms in pancreatic beta cells
• Charles-Antoine Assenmacher, School of Veterinary Medicine, Pathobiology, Undetected viral infection as potential cause of spontaneous neurodegeneration in severely immunocompromised mice
• Tobias Baumgart, School of Arts and Sciences, Chemistry, Flippase function in asymmetric lipid bilayers: the importance of stress differentials
• *Parrish Bergquist, School of Arts and Sciences, Political Science, Conference on the Political Economy of Climate Change and the Environment
• *Cristina Bicchieri, School of Arts and Sciences, Philosophy, Norms and Behavioral Change Conference (NoBeC) 2024: Polarization
• Cullen Blake, School of Arts and Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Taking the Temperatures of Other Worlds
• Lorraine Boakye, Perelman School of Medicine, Orthopaedic Surgery, A Novel Approach to Monitoring Adherence to Immobilization Protocol and Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in Patients Undergoing Management of Achilles Tendon Pathology
• Aislinn Bohren, School of Arts and Sciences, Economics, Prospective Bias in Belief Formation
• S. Pearl Brilmyer, School of Arts and Sciences, English, Lou Andreas-Salomé’s Psychoanalytic Theory
• Sarah Bush, School of Arts and Sciences, Political Science, Economic Diversification and Climate Change in the Middle East
• Juan Camilo Castillo, School of Arts and Sciences, Economics, The Potential of Public Transit: Evidence from Mobile Phone Data
• Brent Cebul, School of Arts and Sciences, History, Building Inequality: Redlining and FHA Rental Housing (including a related conference grant)
• Rita Copeland, School of Arts and Sciences, Classical Studies, Passions and Politics in Medieval Literary Culture
• Julie Nelson Davis, School of Arts and Sciences, History of Art, Understanding Japanese Material Texts: Metadata and Digital Humanities Impacts
• César de la Fuente, Perelman School of Medicine, Psychiatry, Microbiology, Molecular de-extinction: resurrecting antibiotics to combat drug-resistant infections
• Ivan Drpić, School of Arts and Sciences, History of Art, The Enkolpion: Object and Self in Medieval Byzantium
• Douglas Durian, School of Arts and Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Circuits that Learn from the Bottom Up
• James English, School of Arts and Sciences, English, Reader Studies in the Digital Age: Diversity and the Data of Literary Consumption
• Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, School of Arts and Sciences, History, New Tools for Old Documents: Comparing outcomes using 18th, 19th, and 20th century archival materials about afrocolombian history, using large language modeling in combination with community-based pedagogies
• *Deborah Gaspari, School of Arts and Sciences, Psychology, Context and Episodic Memory Symposium 2024
• *Nili Gold, School of Arts and Sciences, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Dan Ben-Amos Memorial Symposium
• Erick Guerra, Stuart Weitzman School of Design, City and Regional Planning, Biking in Buenos Aires: The role of infrastructure, geography, and individual travel behavior in a rapid increase in cycling rates
• Michael Hast, Perelman School of Medicine, Orthopaedic Surgery, Development of Scaffolds for Critical Sized Defect Repairs with 3D Printed “Bonuts”
• Amy Hillier, School of Social Policy and Practice, Development of a Brief Parent-Report Gender Diversity Screener for Young Children
• DeMarcus Jenkins, School of Social Policy and Practice, School Safety (Re)Imagined: Examining School Changes to the Removal of Law Enforcement Officers
• Elizabeth Lennon, School of Veterinary Medicine, Clinical Sciences and Advanced Medicine, Epithelial Monolayer Cultures to Model Species-Specific Host Responses to Infectious Diseases
• Lin Li, Perelman School of Medicine, Radiology, The Third Britton Chance International Symposium on Metabolic Imaging and Spectroscopy
• Zhongjie Lin, Stuart Weitzman School of Design, City and Regional Planning, Planning Autonomous Mobility for Sustainable and Equitable Cities
• Alicia Long, School of Veterinary Medicine, New Bolton Center, Evaluating the potential for the zoonotic transmission of antimicrobial resistance genes in horses receiving antimicrobials for colic surgery
• Julia Lynch, School of Arts and Sciences, Political Science, Seeing Health Equity Like a State: Health Statistics and the Politics of Inequality
• Sandra Maday, Perelman School of Medicine, Neuroscience, Elucidating cell-type-specific vulnerabilities to lysosomal damage in neurons versus astrocytes
• Andrew Markman Guzick, Perelman School of Medicine, Psychiatry, App-delivered exposure and response prevention for obsessive-compulsive disorder
• Megan Matthews, School of Arts and Sciences, Chemistry, New targets of old drugs lead to novel enzyme regulating global neurotransmitter metabolism
• Rahul Mukherjee, School of Arts and Sciences, Cinema & Media Studies, Cultures of Datafication in South Asia
• John O’Donnell, Perelman School of Medicine, Neurosurgery, Objective, multimodal, continuous monitoring of pig physiology in rehabilitation studies following traumatic brain injury
• Prashant Purohit, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Compaction of clays under gravity and shear loads
• Emanuela Ricciotti, Perelman School of Medicine, Systems Pharmacology, Role of circadian clock in the diurnal variability of response to aspirin
• Kathryn Schuler, School of Arts and Sciences, Linguistics, Probability matching as generalization
• Warren Seider, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Environmentally Sustainable Algae Biofuel Production using Gas Microbubbles: A Path to Green Energy
• Katie Sherwood, School of Arts and Sciences, Biology, Using restorative seaweed aquaculture to mitigate environmental change on coral reefs
• *Xi Song, School of Arts and Sciences, Sociology, Summer Institute on Computational Social Science and the International Conference for Computational Social Sciences
• *Emily Steiner, School of Arts and Sciences, English, Premodern Literature and Global Histories: A Conference in Honor of Professor David Wallace
• Amy Stornaiuolo, Graduate School of Education, Learning, Teaching, and Literacies, Writing in the Age of AI: Adolescent Writers Developing AI Literacy
• Alp Sungu, Wharton Business School, OID, Improving Nutritional and Environmental Outcomes Using  Data-driven Food Subsidies at the Base-of-the-pyramid
• Tatyana Svitkina, School of Arts and Sciences, Biology, Acquisition of a DeepSIM super resolution fluorescence microscope
• Jim Sykes, School of Arts and Sciences, Music, Musicianhood: Enchantment and Displacement in a History of Capital
• Thomas Tartaron, School of Arts and Sciences, Classical Studies, Past, Present, and Future of Traditional Fishing Communities: A Cross-Cultural Approach
• Colleen Tewksbury, School of Nursing, Biobehavioral Health Sciences, Nutrition Changes with Pharmacotherapy Treatment of Obesity
• Tariq Thachil, School of Arts and Sciences, Political Science, The Politics of Air Pollution in India’s Cities
• Noor Toraif, School of Social Policy and Practice, Breaking the Cycle: Examining the Contribution of Public Defender Teams in Supporting Multisystem Young Adults and Reducing Pathways to Incarceration
• Jessie Torgersen, Perelman School of Medicine, Medicine, Use of Deep Learning Algorithms to Enable Evaluation of the Determinants and Outcomes of Hepatic Steatosis, by HIV Status
• Theodoros Tsetsenis, Perelman School of Medicine, Neuroscience, Cell-type-specific dopaminergic enhancement of memory in Alzheimer’s disease
• Ioannis Verginadis, Perelman School of Medicine, Radiation Oncology, The role of host STAT3 on radioresistance in an orthotopic pancreatic tumor preclinical model.
• Domenic Vitiello, Stuart Weitzman School of Design, City & Regional Planning, Mafia, Anti-mafia, and Migrant Communities in Western Sicily
• Erica Weitz, Perelman School of Medicine, Psychiatry, A pilot study of Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) via wearable technology to better in identify risk for anxiety in the perinatal period
• *Liang Wu, School of Arts and Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Workshop on Quantum Geometry
• Chenshu Zhou, School of Arts and Sciences, Cinema and Media Studies, Beyond Watching: Screen Time in a Changing China