What’s the link between social life and brain structure? Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, the Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute at
The University of Pennsylvania April 19 announced that several students have been awarded with the 2021 Presidentâs Engagement Prize and Presidentâs Innovation Prize, with Indian American Aris Saxena among the recipients.
Awarded annually, the prizes empower Penn students to design and undertake post-graduation projects that make a positive, lasting difference in the world. Each prize-winning project will receive $100,000, as well as a $50,000 living stipend per team member.
The prizes are the largest of their kind in higher education, the university said in a news release.
There were seven total winners of the 2021 Presidentâs Engagement Prize, with three students â including Saxena â honored with the 2021 Presidentâs Innovation Prize.
A fair housing law proposal to promote racial and economic integration
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and the Reinvestment Fund have released “An ‘All-Out’ Effort to Achieve Desegregation and Equality of Opportunity: Assessment of Fair Housing 2.0.,” a pathbreaking research brief that proposes the use of fair housing law to work toward the end of segregation. In the report, authors Provost and James S. Riepe Presidential Professor of Law and Education Wendell E. Pritchett, Erica V. Rodarte Costa, and Reinvestment Fund’s Ira J. Goldstein and Emily S. Dowdall emphasize that the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) provision of the Fair Housing Act (FHA) is an obligation that attaches to all federal agencies, not just to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
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The two University of Pennsylvania seniors met during their first week on campus freshman year, both living in the Quad’s Ware College House, both planning to major in neuroscience and minor in chemistry, and both on their way to hoped-for careers in medicine.
“I started seeing Amanda in all my classes, in fact in every single one, from the big lectures to the small writing seminar. And I was thinking, ‘Are you following me?’ Everyone is looking for a friend, and I was lucky to have found Amanda,” says Christina Miranda, from Milford, New Jersey.
“We have been a dynamic duo ever since,” says Amanda Moreno, from Miami, who has a second minor in French and Francophone studies.