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L. Ruth Rand wins Guggenheim Fellowship 

L. Ruth Rand has been awarded a Guggenheim predoctoral fellowship 
at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.  She will spend the 
next academic year in residence working with its archives and staff as she 
develops her dissertation project, which has the working title of "Orbital 
Decay: Space Junk and the Environmental Politics of Earth’s 
Borderlands, 1957-2009."

Marissa Mika receives Wenner Gren grant

Doctoral student Marissa Mika has received a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner Gren Foundation. The grant will enable her to conduct further ethnographic fieldwork in the United States and Africa for her dissertation, "Experiments in Survival: Cancer, Research and Care in Uganda 1950 to the present."

The Wenner Gren Foundation is one of the major funding sources for international anthrpological research and is dedicated to the advancement of anthropology throughout the world.

Rosie Dent wins SAS Deans Award for Distinguished Teaching

Rosie Dent has won the School of Arts and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students for the 2012-2013 academic year.  These awards are presented annually to graduate students in the arts and sciences to recognize their contributions to teaching at the undergraduate level.  The awards seek to recognize teaching that is intellectually rigorous, exceptionally coherent, and has had considerable impact on students.

Whitney Laemmli named Dean's Scholar

Doctoral student Whitney Laemmli has been named a Dean's Scholar for 2012-2013 to honor her academic achievement and promise!

Tamar Novick wins DCF

Tamar Novick has won a Dissertation Completion Fellowship from SAS for the 2013-14 academic year.

Ruth Rand wins Summer Associate Fellowship

Ruth Rand has won a Graduate Student Summer Associate Research Fellowship, working with a researcher at the RAND Corporation on ethnographic projects examining scientific management and culture within the Air Force and NASA.

Rand awarded Teece Fellowship

Ruth Rand has been awarded a Dissertation Research Fellowship, the Teece Fellowship.

Will Corbit wins Charles W. Burr Book Prize

Congratulations to STSC senior Will Corbit!!

HSOC Senior Stephanie Lamb is College Commencement Speaker

Stephanie Lamb '13 is the undergraduate speaker for the College Commencement on Sunday, May 12, 2013.  Selection of the speaker is a competitive process between nominees from the departments.  Congratulations, Steph!

Courtney Ng '13 wins prestigious Rose Award

On behalf of the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships (CURF) and the Rose Award Faculty Selection Committee, Courtney Ng's senior thesis project under the direction of Prof. Mason, “Womanhood and Maternal Health-Seeking Behaviors in Periphery China: A Hani Perspective,” has been selected as one of the sixteen Rose Award recipients for 2013.  The Rose Award carries with it a $1,000 award and notation on the University of Pennsylvania transcript.