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Experience The Power of Penn: Advancing Knowledge for Good
Be among the first to hear from President Amy Gutmann and a faculty panel about the impact our new Campaign will have at Penn and in the world. Enjoy the opportunity to network with other Penn alumni and friends at a lively post-reception.
THURSDAY, 15 NOVEMBER 2018 | 6:30 PM
Plaisterers' Hall
1 London Wall
London, UK
6:30 PM Welcome Reception
7:30 PM Program
8:15 PM Campaign Reception
Faculty Panelists:
ANJAN CHATTERJEE
Frank A. and Gwladys H. Elliott Professor, Perelman School of Medicine
As a practicing physician and chair of neurology at Pennsylvania Hospital, Anjan Chatterjee specializes in cognitive disorders. He is also the founding director of the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics, which seeks to understand the biological basis of aesthetic experience, and the author of
The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art. Chatterjee’s lab explores beauty, spatial cognition, language, cognition, and the brain. He is the recipient of the American Academy of Neurology’s Norman Geschwind Prize in Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology and the American Psychological Association’s Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Achievement in Psychology and the Arts.
HENRY DANIELL
Interim Chair, Department of Biochemistry, School of Dental Medicine
Inspired by issues of healthcare inequity and global human rights, Henry Daniell has developed and advanced a novel approach to orally delivering affordable biopharmaceuticals, eliminating expensive injections and refrigeration. He has developed drugs to treat dental caries, diabetes, hemophilia, pulmonary hypertension, diabetic retinopathy, and Alzheimer’s disease, as well as oral vaccines for cholera, tuberculosis, malaria, polio, and plague. Daniell is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the 14th American member of Italy’s 240-year-old National Academy of Sciences. He has been honored for his groundbreaking work by organizations including the American Diabetes Association, the American Heart Association, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and is a recipient of the Bayer Hemophilia Award.
KATHLEEN MORRISON
Sally and Alvin V. Shoemaker Professor of Anthropology, Penn Arts and Sciences
Curator, Asian Section, Penn Museum
Kathleen Morrison, chair of Penn’s Anthropology Department, integrates approaches from archaeology, history, and environmental science to study the historical ecology of Southern Asia, especially with regard to changes in agriculture, land use, and the environment. Her work examines the long-term relationship between biodiversity and the history of human activities. Morrison is also co-director of LandCover6K, an international big-data initiative to improve modern climate models by reconstructing global land cover and land-use patterns of the past 10,000 years. Her expertise on farming, food, and power relations in South India from the Neolithic to the Early Modern period informs her role as Chief Curator of the Penn Museum’s Asian Section.