Grants & Awards 2020-21 GAPSA-Provost Fellowships for Interdisciplinary Innovation

Congratulations to the 2020-21 recipients of the GAPSA-Provost Fellowships for Interdisciplinary Innovation. 

Summer 2020 Fellowships

• Kimberly Noronha, PhD candidate in City and Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design
  Project: The intersections of the lived experience of informality: Comparing how the relationship with the state defines the lived experience of informality in Accra, Ghana and Fort Kochi, India

• Doeon Lee, PhD candidate in Communication, Annenberg School of Communication
  Project: Where the Two Trusts Meet – How Social Trust Influences Political Trust in the New Media Environment

• Jacqueline Maasch, Masters student in Computer and Information Technology, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  Project: A pan-protease cleavage site classifier for machine learning-based encrypted peptide recognition

• Kristina Lewis, PhD candidate in Education (Concentration: Educational Linguistics), Graduate School of Education
  Project: Talking about Teaching Demonstrations: A Medium for Surfacing and Recontextualizing Images of Teaching

• Karen Nershi, PhD candidate in Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences
  Project: Testing Money Laundering's Economic Costs

Academic Year Fellowships

• Gorkem Bostanci, PhD candidate in Economics, School of Arts and Sciences
  Project: Automation, Network Security, and Insurability

• Janay Garrett, PhD candidate in Education (Concentration: Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Development), Graduate School of Education
  Project: Work for the day to Come: Motherwork, Identity tensions & Black women’s first transition to Motherhood

• Andrew Johnson, PhD candidate in Biology, School of Arts and Sciences
  Project: Community ecology of the gut microbiome

• Christiana Kallon Kelly, PhD candidate in Education (Concentration: Education, Culture, and Society), Graduate School of Education  
  Project: The Innovation Generation: Education Reforms, Youth Aspirations, and National Development in Sierra Leone

• Alex Li, MA ’20 (WG, Statistics), PhD candidate in City and Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design
  Project: Aging in place or stuck in place? Disparities in travel patterns among older people since 2000 and policy responses

• Siyao Li, PhD candidate in Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences
  Project: Closing the institutional gap: How multinational corporations protect technological investments through domestic institutions

• Nancy Ma, PhD student in Architecture, Weitzman School of Design
  Project: Indoor Environment and Sleep Health: In-Lab and In-Field Analysis of Environmental Factors on Sleep Quality and Quantity

• Bethany Monea, PhD candidate in Education (Concentration: Literacy, Culture, and International Education), Graduate School of Education
  Project: Re-conceptualizing College Transitions through Collaborative Research with First Generation, Latinx Students

GAPSA-Provost Awards for Interdisciplinary Innovation Poster Session & Reception

Monday, April 26, 3:00-5:00 | hosted on Gather.town

All members of the University community are invited to attend a poster session and reception for recipients of the 2020-21 GAPSA-Provost Award for Interdisciplinary Innovation. Cosponsored by The Office of the Provost and GAPSA.

Learn more about the GAPSA-Provost Fellowships at www.gapsa.upenn.edu/individual-grants#provost.