Awards and honors for Penn faculty in the School of Arts & Sciences
A roundup of the latest awards and accolades for Arts & Sciences faculty in criminology, sociology, political science, Africana studies, English, and history.
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In the School of Arts & Sciences, Adrian Raine, the Richard Perry University Professor of Criminology, Psychiatry, and Psychology, and Greg Ridgeway, the Rebecca W. Bushnell Professor of Criminology have been elected as American Society of Criminology fellows.
Pilar Gonalons-Pons, the Alber-Klingelhofer Presidential Associate Professor of Sociology has won the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section’s Devah Pager Outstanding Article Award at the American Sociological Association annual meeting.
Political science professor Julia Lynch and co-authors received the Richard Titmuss Award for their book, “Getting Better: The Policy and Politics of Reducing Health Inequalities.”
Herman Beavers, the Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt President’s Distinguished Professor of English and Africana Studies, is one of 25 “Window Keepers”—a new Pennsylvania initiative honoring “everyday leaders” across the state—for his work bolstering civic life through the humanities.
And history professor Marcy Norton has co-won the Renaissance Studies Article Prize from the Renaissance Society of America.
On the move: Water quality and antimicrobial resistance testing goes mobile
Penn researchers have developed a mobile field laboratory allowing them to test water quality and track antimicrobial resistance in and around San Cristóbal in the Galápagos.
Penn researchers Vanessa and Alexis North are studying one of the largest collections of Egyptian blue objects ever found in the ancient Near East, shedding new light on how the world’s first synthetic pigment may have traveled far beyond Egypt.
A new role for dental providers? Rethinking where vaccines are given
Vaccinations have traditionally been administered in primary care settings or pharmacies. However, for about a decade, some states have authorized dentists to administer vaccines, and many others did so during the COVID-19 pandemic. The effectiveness of this approach has led some countries and states to expand or consider expanding the role of dental providers in delivering routine vaccines, including those against COVID-19 and the human papillomavirus (HPV), and in providing vaccine education.
Penn student develops a way for computer chips to run more efficiently
Fluid Silicon, a platform from President’s Sustainability Prize winner Nhlanhla Mavuso, allows computer chips to continuously monitor their health and self-tune as their characteristics change. The technology has the potential to reduce energy usage in data centers and improve reliability in mission-critical applications.
