2024 Making a Difference in Global Communities and Klein Family Social Justice Grants Announced

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Penn Arts & Sciences has awarded five Making a Difference in Global Communities grants and six Klein Family Social Justice Grants for 2024.
 
Making a Difference in Global Communities supports multidisciplinary projects led by Arts & Sciences faculty working with students to address global societal challenges, including inequities in race, gender, sexual identity, socioeconomic mobility, education, healthcare, and political representation, as well as climate change, poverty, and immigration.
 
The Klein Family Social Justice Grants are a component of the School’s commitment to contribute to the achievement of social justice through research, teaching, and community engagement, rooted in the arts and sciences.
 
The Making a Difference in Global Communities recipients for Spring 2024 include:

  1. Regional Collaboration for Better Crime Policy, Anthony Braga, Jerry Lee Professor of Criminology in the Department of Criminology
  2. Building an Archive of Global Jewish Voices, Peter Decherney, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor in the Humanities in the Department of Cinema & Media Studies
  3. Return Migration: Reducing Barriers and Risks for Social Cohesion in South Sudan, Guy Grossman, David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations in the Department of Political Science
  4. Using Animated Video to Inform Policymakers and the Public in the European Netherlands about Climate Adaptation Gaps in the Dutch Caribbean Islands, Simon Richter, Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of German in the Department of Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies
  5. LAVA: Laboratorio Para Apreciar la Vida y el Ambiente, Michael Weisberg, Bess W. Heyman President’s Distinguished Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy 

The Klein Family Social Justice Grant recipients for Spring 2024 include:

  1. Multi-Stage Discrimination and the Costs of Misdiagnosis in ADHD, Francesco Agostinelli, Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences in the Department of Economics
  2. America’s First Petrochemical Corridor, Jared Farmer, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History in the Department of History
  3. Psychology Education Goes to Middle School, Loretta Flanagan-Cato, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology
  4. Cobbs Creek Stream Team: Empowering Young Leaders in Water Quality Monitoring, Jon Hawkings, Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science
  5. Philadelphia City Lab, John Lapinski, Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science
  6. Philosopher-in-Residence Program, Kok-Chor Tan, Professor in the Department of Philosophy

 

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