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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Welcome back from winter break. I want to begin the New Year by thanking you, Penn’s unsurpassed faculty, students, staff, alumni, and friends, for all the good you do here and in the world. Together, we have propelled our University to unprecedented heights of inclusion, innovation, and impact. Together, we will do even more in the semester to come.

We can gauge Penn’s rise by the world-improving and life-saving work of our faculty, such as the first-ever FDA-approved gene therapy treatment for cancer. We can measure our reach with rankings, with our University being named #4 in Reuters’ list of the top 100 most innovative universities in the world (up from #8 the previous year). Penn also moved up to #3 from #17 in the most recent National Science Foundation Education R&D Survey. We can also be enormously proud of the countless achievements of Penn students, faculty, and staff who, each year, bring great honor and recognition to our University. I want to briefly recog-nize just a few examples.

Seniors Chris D’Urso and Zikri Jaafar recently earned prestigious Rhodes scholarships for graduate study at Oxford. They both share a passion for community engagement, human rights, and social justice, and their work embodies the finest attributes of Penn scholars who are working to make a profound difference in the world. Chris has focused on consumer pro-tection and advocacy as the founder of Penn CASE (Consumer Assistance, Support & Educa-tion), which is providing education and support to local consumers in our community. He also has been actively engaged on the Task Force on a Safe and Responsible Campus Community. Zikri’s undergraduate research has focused on social-impact bonds. He also has done volun-teer work with refugees and has been an ambassador for Penn’s Giving What We Can. Chris and Zikri are extraordinarily talented, engaged, and committed individuals who are deeply de-serving of this preeminent recognition. Congratulations to our latest Rhodes Scholars!

Penn also boasts seven new faculty inductees to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine (formerly called the Institute of Medicine). Representing SAS, Penn Nursing, and the Perelman School, these exceptional faculty have made seminal contributions to the ad-vancement of the medical sciences, health care, and public health. I invite everyone to join me in congratulating Lewis Chodosh, Christos Coutifaris, Maria Oquendo, Michael Parma-cek, Therese Richmond, Dorothy Roberts, and Flaura Winston.

We are enormously proud as well of Penn’s four new faculty fellows of the American As-sociation for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society. Rep-resenting SAS, the Perelman School, and Penn Vet, these extraordinary faculty have been honored for their scientifically and socially distinguished efforts. We congratulate Gustavo Aguirre, Daniel José Mindiola, Hongzhe Li, and Anil Rustgi.

As we celebrate these and the many other accomplishments of Penn’s people, I want to remind our seniors and their mentors that the deadline for both the President’s Engagement Prize and the President’s Innovation Prize is January 19. These Prizes not only publicly rec-ognize and reward creative projects that promote the greater good. They also proclaim our most cherished values as a university: to educate and support our students for meaningful leadership and lifelong citizenship.

Each Prize bestows a generous living allowance for one year after graduation and up to $100,000 in project expenses. All full-time undergraduates who will graduate in May, Au-gust, or December of this award year are eligible to apply. I encourage seniors with a great idea to submit an application, and I very much look forward to receiving them.

Embarking on the spring semester, I encourage all of us not only to celebrate the wonder-fully diverse and creative community we call home, but also to be mindful of our own health and the wellbeing of those around us. We rightfully focus on the wellness of our students, but I want to emphasize that faculty and staff should also reach out if they are in need, take advantage of the resources available to the Penn community, and care for one another. I am grateful for all the students, faculty, and staff who are working so passionately on this impor-tant priority, and we will continue to do all that is possible to sustain a campus community in which everyone can thrive.

To the entire Penn community: Welcome back to campus, and welcome to a bright new year at Penn!

Welcome Back From the President

Celebrating Penn People

FDA Approval: Gene Therapy Developed by Penn and CHOP

for Inherited BlindnessIn a historic move, the U.S. Food and Drug

Administration (FDA) recently approved a gene therapy initially developed by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) for the treat-ment of a rare, inherited form of retinal blind-ness. The decision marks the nation’s first gene therapy approved for the treatment of a genetic disease, and the first in which a new, corrective gene is injected directly into a patient.

The therapy, known as LUXTURNA™ (voretigene neparvovec-ryzl), significantly im-proves eyesight in patients with confirmed bial-lelic RPE65 mutation-associated retinal dystrophy. Patients with RPE65 mutations suffer from severe visual impairment at infancy or early childhood, and by mid-life become totally blind. They previ-ously had no pharmacologic treatment options.

Spark Therapeutics, a Philadelphia biotech-nology company created in 2013 by CHOP in an effort to accelerate the timeline for bringing new gene therapies to market, led the late-stage clinical development of LUXTURNA and built in West Philadelphia the first licensed manu-facturing facility in the U.S. for a gene thera-py treating an inherited disease. Spark was built on the foundational research conducted over a 10-year period by CHOP’s Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics (CCMT). Those efforts were led by Jean Bennett, the F.M. Kir-by Professor of Ophthalmology at the Perel-man School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Penn’s Scheie Eye Institute,

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Deaths Provost Wendell Pritchett announces the formation of an ad hoc consultative committee to ad-

vise him on the selection of the University’s next Vice Provost and Director of Libraries. H. Car-ton Rogers, who has served as Vice Provost and Director of Libraries since 2004 and worked in the Penn Libraries since 1975, will retire from Penn at the end of this academic year.

“Over more than four decades at Penn,” said Provost Pritchett, “Carton Rogers has made our Li-braries into vibrant hubs of activity, brilliantly combining respect for the past with vision for the fu-ture. He has been a particular leader in charting the future of research libraries, both nationally and here on campus, and in reimagining the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, in the heart of campus, as a wide-ranging center for collaborative learning and new ideas, while sustaining its essential role as a catalyst for study and scholarship. He has built an extraordinary legacy of innovation and imagi-nation for his successor—and for the benefit of all of us in the Penn community.”

The committee welcomes nominations and input from all members of the Penn community, which can be sent to provost@upenn.edu by February 28, 2018.

The members of the committee are:ChairWendell Pritchett, Provost and Presidential Professor of Law and Education FacultyJeffrey Kallberg, Associate Dean for Arts and Letters and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of

Music, School of Arts and SciencesJonathan Moreno, David and Lyn Silfen University Professor in the Perelman School of

Medicine and the School of Arts and SciencesJennifer Pinto-Martin, Viola MacInnes/Independence Professor of Nursing; Chair-Elect,

Faculty SenateBethany Wiggin, Associate Professor of German, School of Arts and SciencesStaffHannah Bennett, Director, Fine Arts and Museum LibrariesPaul George, Director, Biddle Law LibraryThomas Murphy, Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information OfficerJulian Siggers, Williams Director, Penn Museum of Archaeology and AnthropologyStudentsMiles Owen, President, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly; School of Design

and Fels Institute of Government Shawn Srolovitz, SEAS ’18, Past Chair External (2017), Student Committee on Undergrad-

uate EducationOverseersJudith Bollinger, WG ’81Erik Gershwind, W ‘93Staff to the CommitteeLynne Hunter, Associate Provost for AdministrationConsultants to the CommitteeJonathan Fortescue, Park Square Executive SearchAnne Coyle, Park Square Executive Search

Consultative Committee for the Selection of a Vice Provost and Director of Libraries

Herbert Goldberg, RadiologyHerbert Goldberg, professor emeritus of radi-

ology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, died on March 26, 2017. He was 86.

In 1967, he was an professor of radiology, in 1971 he became an associate professor, in 1974 an assistant clinical professor and in 1976 a pro-fessor of radiology at the Hospital of the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania in the clinician-educator track of the associate faculty. Dr. Goldberg be-came a professor of radiation oncology in 1978. He also served as a professor of neurosurgery from 1984-1999.

Dr. Goldberg graduated from the University of Vermont College of Medicine in 1956 then did an internship at Bellevue Hospital and a res-idency at Presby Medical Center as well as a fel-lowship at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Co-lumbia Presbyterian Center.

He joined the 25-Year Club at Penn in 1992 (Almanac November 3, 1992). He retired and became professor emeritus of radiology in 1998 (Almanac June 16, 1998).

He was married to the late Rosalie Burns for 57 years. She died in 2015. He is survived by his children, Laura Raab and Alan (Joan); four grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

The University of Penn-sylvania is closed on Monday, January 15, in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Symposium on Social Change begins with the January 15 Day of Service and continues with events taking place through January 31.

For the latest information on the numerous events, visit www.upenn.edu/aarc/mlk

(At left) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. giving his now fa-mous I Have a Dream speech in Washington, DC, in 1963.

A Cultural Diplomacy Conference for Mid-dle School Students presented by the World Af-fairs Council of Philadelphia and the Penn Mu-seum is the kick-off event of a rigorous Student Diplomat/Jr. Model United Nations Program, a five-month series of programs introducing stu-dents from around the Greater Philadelphia area to the world of international relations and cul-tural diplomacy. With an emphasis on develop-ing students’ research, writing, and communica-tion skills, the Student Diplomat Program meets a growing demand for international affairs cur-ricula in area middle schools, preparing stu-dents for successful futures in an increasingly interconnected world.

Students come to the University of Penn-sylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthro-pology on one of three days (250 students per day) in early January. At the Penn Museum, students will be introduced to a wide and cul-turally diverse world beyond their classroom walls, via docent tours of the renowned interna-tional collections and conversations with Mu-seum International Classroom speakers from China, Greece, and Kenya, and archaeologists who have spent extensive time in Egypt and It-aly. The conference program includes a keynote welcome and closing from World Affairs Coun-cil speakers, setting the stage for intercultural learning and framing the lessons that will fol-low in the spring semester.

Over the course of five months, 750 middle school students will gather to examine global con-flicts and trends while working together to create promising solutions to some of the world’s greatest challenges. The program emphasizes building cul-tural competency and diplomatic skills; expanding knowledge of world geography, cultures and po-litical structures; and increasing understanding of how national and international institutions tackle key global issues. This year’s focus: “Ending Food Insecurity” and “Protecting Women’s and Girls’ Access to Education.”

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MLK Day: At Penn, A Day of Service and Beyond

After Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination on April 4, 1968, some members of Congress pro-posed that his birthday should be a national holiday. However, it was not until the Ronald Reagan administration that a bill passed and his birthday was designated a national holiday to be celebrated on the third Monday in January starting in 1986 (Almanac April 25, 2000). Penn focused its energy and attention on community service to realize Dr. King’s vision of a “beloved community.”

During the administration of Penn President Judith Rodin, the University then made MLK Day an official holiday at Penn as of January 2001, making it “a day on not a day off.” It was then that the annual Day of Service was launched as part of the extensive Commemorative Symposium (Al-manac December 12, 2000). Penn’s Commitment to the Legacy: 2018 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Symposium on Social Change includes opportunities for service, lectures, perfor-mances, an interfaith program and awards ceremony. The Symposium is coordinated by the Afri-can-American Resource Center, (215) 898-0104. Events are free and open to the community.

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of the deaths of current and former facul-ty and staff members, students and other members of the University community. Call (215) 898-5274 or email almanac@upenn.edu

However, notices of alumni deaths should be directed to the Alumni Records Office at 2929 Walnut Street, Suite 300, (215) 898-8136 or email record@ben.dev.upenn.edu

Salvador Minuchin, Child Psychiatry

Salvador Minuchin, a pioneer in the field of family therapy who was a emeritus professor of pediatrics and child psychiatry at University of Pennsylvania, died on October 30 at age 96.

Dr. Minuchin’s work “helped redefine the role of a therapist,” according to The New York Times. He was born in San Salvador, Argentina, to Jewish immigrants from Russia. He was in-spired by a high school teacher to help young delinquents and was jailed for several months for his participation in leftist protests opposing the military government’s seizure of Argentine universities.

He earned a medical degree from the Nation-al University of Córdoba in Argentina and then enlisted in the Israeli Army in 1948. He studied child psychiatry and psychoanalysis in New York and went to Israel to treat Holocaust orphans and children displaced by wars. He then worked as a child psychiatrist at the Wiltwyck School for delinquent boys in the Hudson Valley, where he developed the theory of what became known as Structural Family Therapy.

He joined Penn and was also the director of psychiatry at the Children’s Hospital of Phila-delphia and from 1965-1975 he was the direc-tor of the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic.

He took on a secondary appointment as profes-sor of pediatrics in 1970. In 1984, he became clin-ical professor of child psychiatry in the associate faculty of Penn’s School of Medicine. He retired from the clinic in 1975 and was director emeritus and head of training there until 1983. He became emeritus in 1989. In 1981, he returned to New York and established the Family Studies Insti-tute, a nonprofit training center for therapists now known as the Minuchin Center for the Family.

Dr. Minuchin retired in 1996 and eventually settled in Florida, where he continued to teach and write.

His wife, Patricia, a psychologist and author, died in 2015. He is survived by a son, Daniel; a daughter, Jean; a granddaughter; and a sister, Sara Itzigsohn.

Marilyn Ware, TrusteeMarilyn (Mimi)

Ware, CW’67, retired U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Fin-land, former Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania Health System and former Penn Medicine Board member, died on De-cember 14. She was 74.

She was a grad-uate of the Univer-sity of Pennsylvania College for Women, earning a degree in 1967.

Early in her career, Ambassador Ware was a freelance journalist, public relations consultant, and small newspaper owner. She began a career in politics as a county chairperson in Lancast-er County, Pennsylvania where she helped win 12 of the 13 county offices in her first year. She was the only woman in America at the time to have led two gubernatorial races in one of the five largest states when she served as Chair to Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge’s successful gubernatorial campaigns.

Ambassador Ware served as Chair of the Board of American Water Works Company from 1998-2003. Throughout her career, she also served on the boards of CIGNA, IKON Of-fice Solutions and PPL Corporation.

In 2002, President George W. Bush appoint-ed her to serve on the National Critical Infra-

structure Advisory Council, a position that she held until 2005.

She served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Finland from 2005 to 2008 while maintaining homes in Denver, Colorado, and Strasburg, Pennsylvania.

Beginning in 1991, Ambassador Ware served Penn as a member of the Trustee Board of the Medical Center and of the Board of Over-seers of the School of Medicine. In 1993, she became a member of the University of Penn-sylvania Health System Trustee Board and in 1995, she joined this board’s executive commit-tee. She had completed all of her terms in these positions by 2002, when she became a member of the Penn Medicine Board as well as its execu-tive committee. She held the committee position until 2005 and the board position until 2007.

She contributed to a number of other non-profit boards and committees, including the Eisenhower Fellowships in Philadelphia, the Pew Oceans Commission, the National Coun-cil of the Conservation Fund, the International Democrat Union, and the Human Freedom Ad-visory Council of the George W. Bush Institute. She was the founding member and Honorary President of WaterAid America; a founder of Janus School, a private day school for children with learning disabilities; and co-founder of Lancaster Farmland Trust in PA, the most suc-cessful farmland preservation trust in the nation.

In 2008, Ambassador Ware produced the award-winning documentary The Surge: the Untold Story. She was a longtime trustee of the American Enterprise Institute, where in 2012 she established the Marilyn Ware Center of Se-curity Studies to support and advance America’s historic role as a beacon of freedom and a leader in security and defense worldwide.

Ambassador Ware followed in the footsteps of her parents, the late Congressman John H. Ware, III, W’30, and the late Marian S. Ware, philanthropists who supported Penn for many years. Marian S. Ware, along with the Oxford Foundation established the John H. Ware 3rd Professorship in Alzheimer’s Research at Penn in 1999; and in 2004 she donated $6 million to establish the Marian S. Ware Alzheimer Pro-gram at Penn Medicine to advance drug discov-ery, clinical research, and patient care related to Alzheimer’s disease (Almanac February 3, 2004).

She is survived by her children, Mark Strode (Lisa), Amyla Lavric and Scott Strode; four granddaughters, Isabella, Matea, Julia and Viv-ian; her brother, Paul Ware; and sister Carol Ware.

In lieu of flowers, contributions to support Alzheimer’s Research at Penn Medicine may be made to the Marilyn Ware Memorial Fund: www.PennMedicine.org/Ware

Marilyn Ware

William Steinberg, UndergraduateWilliam Steinberg, an 18-year-old freshman

at University of Pennsylvania, died along with his family in a plane crash in Costa Rica on De-cember 31.

According to The New York Times, William was traveling with his parents, Bruce and Irene; and his brothers, Matthew and Zachary, from the resort town of Punta Islita on the Pacific coast to San José, the capital of Costa Rica when the plane crashed, killing everyone on board.

The family was from Scarsdale, New York, and was on the last stop of a vacation before they planned to return home.

William was a student in the Class of 2021 who lived in Ware College House, where he was on the board of the Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Residential Program. He participated in PennQuest, a four-day outdoors experience for first-year students, and was in-volved with Seeds of Peace, an organization that promotes leadership to foster peace in commu-nities around the world, and the International Affairs Association.

According to the Times, Mr. Steinberg worked in investment banking; Ms. Steinberg volunteered at many nonprofits; Matthew was in eighth grade; and Zachary was a sophomore at Johns Hopkins University.

The Steinbergs are survived by William’s paternal relatives: grandparents, Irwin and Di-ane; aunt, Tamara Jacobson (Alan) and cous-ins, Laura, Alexandra and Elizabeth; and mater-nal relatives: grandparents, Alan and Marjorie Ginsberg; and uncle, Robert Ginsberg (Rebec-ca) and cousins Noah and Ben.

A campus memorial will be held today, Jan-uary 9, at 4 p.m. in the Class of ‘49 Auditorium, second floor, Houston Hall.

Lynn Manko, FacilitiesLynn Kimmelman Manko, former staff mem-

ber in Penn’s Facilities and Real Estate Services, died on January 1. She was 75 years old.

Ms. Manko came to Penn in 1977 to fill the newly-created position of assistant to the direc-tor of athletics for promotion and group sales. She went on to serve as the assistant to the direc-tor of Physical Plant and became a facility man-ager before leaving Penn.

Previously, Ms. Manko conducted events for the National Junior Tennis League of Philadel-phia and coordinated ticket sales for the U.S. Professional Indoor Tennis Championships. She had a degree from Boston University.

At the time of her death, Ms. Manko was serving as the chair of volunteer annual giving and vice chair of the central committee of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association and a mem-ber of the boards of directors for the Mural Arts of Philadelphia and the Symphony House Con-dominium Association.

She is survived by her husband, Joseph Sr., a former adjunct at Penn Law; children, Joseph Jr. (Jennifer Porges), Glenn and Wendy Singer (Steven); and grandchildren, Dean and Alex-andre Porges Manko, Mackenzie and Sydney Manko, and Sarah and Sofia Singer.

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Honors & Other Things

Stephen Hudis: American College of Prosthodontists Vice President

Stephen Hudis, clinical associate pro-fessor of periodontics at Penn Dental Medi-cine, was recently appointed vice presi-dent of the American College of Prosth-odontists (ACP) for a one year term.

“As a prosthodon-tist, my passion has always been about patient care. Science and technology have given us amazing tools to provide the best treat-ment outcomes for our patients,” said Dr. Hu-dis. “These are challenging times for health care delivery in this country, and especially for our specialty. I am very excited for the opportunity to support and defend our specialty and promote its continued growth.”

Dr. Hudis joined ACP in 1980 and has con-tributed to fundraising and has served on several of its task forces. He maintains a private prac-tice in Princeton, New Jersey.

Stephen Hudis

Louis Soslowsky: H.R. Lissner Medal

Louis J. Sos-lowsky, the Fairhill Professor of Ortho-paedic Surgery in the Perelman School of Medicine at the Uni-versity of Pennsylva-nia, has been chosen by the American So-ciety of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) to receive the H.R. Liss-ner Medal. The Medal recognizes outstand-ing achievements in the field of bioen-gineering and is widely viewed as the highest honor in the bioengineering community.

Dr. Soslowsky, who is also associate dean for research integration and the founding di-rector of the Penn Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders, was chosen “for outstanding contri-butions toward the understanding, prevention, and treatment of musculoskeletal injuries to tendinous [tendon] and ligamentous [ligament] tissues; and for internationally recognized lead-ership in the biomechanics community.”

Dr. Soslowsky is an expert in orthopaedic bioengineering and functional tissue engineer-ing whose research focuses on soft connective tissue and joint mechanics, seeking to identify the causes of tendon and ligament injury, heal-ing, repair, and regeneration. He also studies shoulder joint mechanics, examining relation-ships between tissue injury and joint loading in normal and abnormal states.

Dr. Soslowsky will deliver a plenary lecture and receive his award at the World Congress of Biomechanics in Dublin, Ireland this summer.

The H. R. Lissner Award is named in honor of professor H. R. Lissner of Wayne State Uni-versity for his pioneering work in biomechan-ics, which began in 1939.

Louis Soslowsky

Noam Lior: Club of Rome MemberNoam Lior, professor of mechanical engi-

neering & applied mechanics in Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, was named a full member of the Club of Rome. The Club of Rome is an interdisciplinary, interna-tional think tank dedicated to sustainability is-sues. Full members have voting privileges and contribute to the Club of Rome’s initiatives. Dr. Lior was elected to the Club of Rome in 2013 (Almanac March 26, 2013).

Penn-Made PresidentAjay Nair, Arcadia University

Ajay Nair, former Senior Associate Vice Provost at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named president of Arcadia University.

Dr. Nair was associate director and instruc-tor in Penn’s Asian American Studies Program, as well as director of the Pan-Asian American Community House (PAACH), from 2002-2006. He returned to Penn as Senior Associate Vice Provost for Student Affairs from 2008-2012 (Al-manac July 15, 2008). While at Penn, he found-ed the Stduent Affairs Leadership Team and helped create a development and alumni rela-tions program for the University Life Division.

He previously held positions at Columbia University, Penn State University and Univer-sity of Virginia. Most recently, Dr. Nair was se-nior vice president and dean of campus life for Emory University.

Eduardo Padrón: Lifetime Achievement Award

The University of Pennsylvania’s Netter Cen-ter for Community Partnerships recently honored Eduardo Padrón, president of Miami Dade Col-lege, with its Lifetime Achievement Award.

“I am so honored to be recognized with this distinction,” said Dr. Padrón. “At MDC, we be-lieve that opportunity changes everything. The University of Pennsylvania is one of the finest institutions in the world and this recognition, which I accept on behalf of all my colleagues, only motivates us to continue working for an education system that is accessible, inclusive and of the highest quality.”

Dr. Padrón, who holds a PhD from the Uni-versity of Florida, arrived in the United States as a teenage refugee in 1961. He became president of Miami Dade College in 1995 and is credited with elevating MDC to a position of national prominence. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.

Boris Striepen: William Trager Award

Boris Striepen, professor of patho-biology at Penn Vet, recently received the William Trager Award for Basic Par-asitology from the American Committee of Molecular, Cellu-lar and Immunopara-sitology.

The award is named in honor of malaria research pio-neer William Trager and recognizes sci-entists who have made a fundamental break-through in basic parasitology that allows for new areas of investigation.

Dr. Striepen joined Penn Vet’s faculty in July. He studies Cryptosporidium, a micro-scopic single-celled parasite that can cause gastrointestinal illness, with a focus on the iso-lation and genetic manipulation of Cryptospo-ridium to identify and validate effective drug treatments.

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Opeyemi Akanbi: Student and Recent Graduate Essay Competition Winner

Penn doctoral candidate Opeyemi Akanbi is one of two winners of the Yale Law Journal’s inaugural Student and Recent Graduate Essay Competition.

The competition encourages legal scholars to examine and interpret developing legal chal-lenges. This year’s competition focused on bur-geoning issues at the intersection of law and technology, including but not limited to: surveil-lance, cybersecurity, digital speech, artificial in-telligence and privacy.

Ms. Akanbi’s essay, “Policing Work Bound-aries on the Cloud,” explores the shifting con-ceptualization of labor in the digital age due to increased use of cloud computing software. The essay looks at the way applications like Slack, Workplace, and Teams can be reconciled with current labor laws. While the applications can blur work boundaries, labor laws are based on a separation between work and nonwork.

Ms. Akanbi is a doctoral candidate at the An-nenberg School who studies media policy issues like net neutrality and the use of digital media technologies in the context of labor and priva-cy. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Benjamin Cardozo School of Law and is a member of the New York bar.

As a winner of the essay competition, Akanbi’s paper will be published in the Yale Law Journal Forum, and she will receive a monetary prize.

Penn Nursing faculty: AMA AwardsThe Nursing Informatics Working Group

of the American Medical Informatics Associa-tion (AMIA) recently recognized two papers authored by Penn faculty at its national sympo-sium in November.

Kathryn Bowles, professor and the vanAm-eringen Chair in Nursing Excellence at Penn Nursing, received the Harriet H. Werley Award for the paper, Nurse Generated EHR Data Sup-ports Post-Acute Care Referral Decision Mak-ing: Development and Validation of a Two-step Algorithm. The Harriet H. Werley Award hon-ors the paper presented at the symposium that makes the greatest contribution to advancing the field of nursing informatics.

The paper’s co-authors included Penn Nurs-ing’s Mary Naylor, Susan Keim, Sheryl Potash-nik, John Holmes and Emilia Flores, as well as PSOM’s Sarah J. Ratcliffe.

Ms. Keim, a lecturer and director of Penn Nursing’s graduate Nursing & Healthcare Admin-istration & Leadership programs, also was hon-ored with the 2017 Nursing Informatics Working Group Student Award for the paper, Comparison of Algorithm Advice for Post-acute Care Referral to Usual Clinical Decision-making: Examination of 30-day Acute Care Utilization. The award rec-ognizes a student who demonstrates excellence in nursing informatics and who has the potential to contribute significantly to the discipline.

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(continued from page 1)and Katherine A. High, who directed the CCMT and now serves as Spark’s president and head of research and development. Albert M. Maguire, a professor of Ophthalmology at the Perelman School of Medicine and an attending physician at CHOP, served as the principal investigator of the clinical trials that led to the FDA approval.

The approval is a culmination of more than 25 years of studies on congenital blindness by married-couple team Drs. Bennett and Magu-ire at Penn and CHOP, starting with pioneering work in mice and dogs.

“I’ve witnessed the dramatic changes in the vision of patients who would have otherwise lost their sight, and feel exhilarated that this therapy will now make a difference in the lives of more children and adults,” Dr. Bennett said. “I’m hopeful that the path we’ve made with this research, with the help of our collaborators near and far, will be useful to other groups, so that other gene therapies can be developed faster and help more people with other diseases.”

This marks the second FDA approval for a University of Pennsylvania/CHOP-developed therapy within six months. In August, the per-sonalized cellular therapy known as Kymriah™ was approved for the treatment of advanced acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children and young adults (Almanac September 12, 2017).

There are an estimated 1,000 to 2,000 pa-tients in the United States with RPE65 muta-tions. The newly approved therapy will be avail-able at select treatment centers across the nation.

The one-time therapy corrects the deficits resulting from mutations in the gene RPE65, which is responsible for producing proteins that make light receptors work in the retina and vi-sion possible. To restore production of those proteins, corrected versions of the RPE65 gene are delivered in a single injection, using a ge-netically engineered, benign adeno-associat-ed virus to carry the genes to the retina. Within weeks, a patient’s vision can begin to improve. The FDA recommends the use of the therapy for patients ages 12 months and older.

“Today’s landmark approval is a great mo-ment for science and the many individuals and families who live with genetic disease,” Dr. High said. “One of the hopes of the Human Genome Project had been that it would be possible to de-velop gene therapy to expand therapeutic op-tions for people with genetic disease. Now that hope is a reality. We offer our sincere gratitude to the patients and their families as well as the ex-pert investigators who continue to participate in this and other clinical development programs.”

The Penn gene therapy work tightly links animal and human health, having begun in af-fected mice and dogs during the 1990s. In 2001, Bennett and Maguire and Penn colleagues Greg Acland, Tomas Aleman, Samuel Jacobson, and Artur Cideciyan reported they had successfully restored the sight of three blind dogs with a ca-nine form of LCA, in collaboration with Cor-nell University’s Gus Aguirre (now a professor of Medical Genetics and Ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veteri-nary Medicine) and the University of Florida’s Bill Hauswirth. After the therapy, the dogs free-ly navigated through a dimly lit obstacle course, whereas before they would bump into objects.

The first Penn/CHOP-led Phase 1/2 clinical studies began in late 2007, with a total of 12 pa-tients ranging from eight to 46 years old, most of whom experienced vision improvements within weeks of receiving the therapy. Half of

the patients improved enough to no longer be classified as legally blind. Those initial clini-cal trials brought together patients and scientists from Penn and the Second University of Naples in Italy and Ghent University Hospital in Bel-gium. The first three patients to receive the ther-apy in 2007 are all now in their 20s and 30s, and continue to enjoy their improved vision.

Results presented in 2015 from a pivotal phase III trial of 29 patients aged four to 44, some of whom were treated at the University of Iowa, showed the therapy had significantly improved their ability to navigate an obstacle course designed to mimic daily activities in low light. The therapy dramatically restored most patients’ ability to see, increased their sensitiv-ity to light, and improved their side vision, the researchers reported.

In the trials, the gene therapy safety profile was consistent with vitrectomy and subretinal injection procedures. Side effects included cata-racts, changes in intraocular pressure, changes in macular structure (macular thinning, macu-lar pucker, macular hole), intraocular infection in one patient, and a reduction in visual acuity in one patient.

To date, a total of 41 patients have been treated with the therapy at CHOP and Iowa.

Many of them are now reading the chalk-board, grocery shopping, taking driver’s license tests, having more job opportunities, and rec-ognizing people’s faces, among other activi-ties that seemed impossible before. “It has been amazing watching them grow up,” Dr. Bennett said. “It’s like they are an extended part of our family.” Drs. Bennett and Maguire have also ad-opted two dogs, Mercury and Venus, that were part of early trials of the new approach.

“The approval of the gene therapy approach for LCA opens up the door to develop therapies that target other mutations behind hereditary blindness and retinal diseases, and emphasizes the importance of genetic testing so that people living with inherited diseases can potentially benefit from gene treatments as they emerge,” Dr. Maguire said. “It also serves as a stepping stone to more prevalent diseases.”

A gene therapy clinical trial that delivers a corrected gene in patients with wet macular degeneration, for instance, is already under-way at centers including the Scheie Eye Insti-tute. Today, patients with this disorder must re-ceive injections of a much-needed protein once a month. Using gene therapy could bring that down to just a single injection. Similar types of therapy may also help treat other diseases, such as hearing-related problems and muscular dys-trophy, for example.

Additional contributors to the research in-clude Jeannette Bennicelli, J. Fraser Wright, Jennifer Wellman, Federico Mingozzi, Manzar Ashtari, Junwei Sun, Kathleen Marshall, Na-dine Dejneka, Vibha Anand, Arkady Lyubarsky, Valder Arruda, Ken Shindler, Dan Chung, Sar-ah McCague, Dominique Cross, Julie DiStefa-no-Pappas, T. Michael Redmond, Kristina Narf-strom, Julia Haller, Alberto Auricchio, Enrico Surace, Tim Hopkins, Tonia Rex, Eric Pierce, Michael Ward, Ali Zaidi, Jason Ruggiero, Dina Gewaily, Edwin Stone, Francesca Simonelli, Bart LeRoy, and Stephen Russell.

Editor’s Note: The University of Pennsylva-nia has licensed certain patent rights to Spark Ther-apeutics, including intellectual property that cov-ers Luxturna, which may provide financial benefits to Penn in the future.

FDA Approves Gene Therapy for Inherited Blindness

Ashok Venkitaraman: Basser Global Prize

The Basser Center for BRCA at Penn’s Abramson Cancer Center recently an-nounced that Ashok Venkitaraman, the Ursula Zoellner Pro-fessor of Cancer Re-search and director of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Can-cer Unit at the Uni-versity of Cambridge, is the recipient of its fifth annual Basser Global Prize.

The Basser Global Prize recognizes a lead-ing scientist who has conceptually advanced BRCA1/2-related research that has led to im-provements in clinical care.

Dr. Venkitaraman’s laboratory showed the critical role that BRCA2 plays in repairing the human genome and how mutations in BRCA2 lead to genome instability, which accelerates cancer development.

“It is our privilege to recognize Dr. Venkita-raman for his inspiring accomplishments, which have significantly contributed to our understand-ing of how cancer is suppressed by genes such as BRCA2,” said Susan Domchek, executive direc-tor of the Basser Center for BRCA and the Basser Professor of Medicine in Penn’s Abramson Can-cer Center. “His pioneering work has helped clarify the basic mechanisms that govern genome repair, replication, and segregation during cell di-vision, as well as their roles in cancer formation and treatment. This knowledge is making a dif-ference for patients with BRCA1/2 mutations by giving them better options for targeted therapies and improved quality of life.”

Dr. Venkitaraman will receive the award and present the keynote address at the annual Basser Center for BRCA Scientific Symposium in May.

The Basser Global Prize provides $100,000 in unrestricted support of the winner’s BRCA1/2-related research efforts, a Basser trophy, and $10,000 cash prize, which will be awarded at the symposium.

“It is an honor to be recognized in this way by the Basser Center, which is at the forefront of efforts to improve the outcome of patients who bear BRCA1/2 mutations,” Dr. Venkitaraman said. “The Basser Global Prize will greatly en-hance my laboratory’s ability to pursue promis-ing new research avenues.”

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Peter Struck: Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit

Peter Struck, professor and chair of the de-partment of classical studies at University of Pennsylvania, was recently awarded the Soci-ety for Classical Studies’ Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit. Dr. Struck, the Evan C Thomp-son Term Professor for Excellence in Teaching, was recognized for his most recent book, Divi-nation and Human Nature: A Cognitive History of Intuition in Classical Antiquity.

This is his second time receiving the Good-win Award, having also been awarded for his first book, Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts.

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Winter Tips from Penn Vet’s Ryan Hospital:

Keep Pets Safe in Cold Weather1. Avoid icy walkways, as animals can

slip and pull muscles and ligaments. Slips and falls also can aggravate existing condi-tions like hip dysplasia.

2. When snow is deep, clear an area where your dog can relieve itself. Many dogs, particularly small ones, will not re-lieve themselves in deep snow.

3. After a walk, wash and dry your dog’s paws. Salt and other material spread on sidewalks cause irritation to the feet.

4. Do not leave dogs outside for ex-tended periods of time. Water in bowls can freeze when left outside, preventing your pet’s access to water.

5. When shoveling snow, keep dogs away. Many dogs like to jump at snow as it flies from the shovel. They may run into the sharp edge of the shovel and get cut.

6. Antifreeze has a sweet odor and taste that seems to lure animals. A very small amount of the liquid can be lethal to cats and dogs. If an animal has had contact with contaminated surfaces, seek veterinary at-tention immediately.

7. Because cats like to hide under the hoods of cars during cold weather, thump the hood a few times before entering a ve-hicle and turning the key.

8. Short-coated and small-breed dogs should wear a sweater or a coat to keep warm outside.

In case of emergency, Penn Vet’s Emergency Service is open 24 hours a day,

7 days a week, 365 days a year. Call (215) 746-8911 or visit www.vet.upenn.edu

L.A. Dance Project: At the Annenberg CenterL.A. Dance Project makes its Philadelphia headline debut January 12-13 at the Annenberg Cen-

ter’s Zellerbach Theater. This collective of contemporary dancers has already turned heads with its fresh vision of contemporary dance and eclectic repertory. Performances start at 11 a.m. January 12 for grades K-12 as part of the Arts4Youth series. Call (215) 573-8827 to register.

To get tickets for the 8 p.m. performance on January 12 or the 2 p.m. performance on January 13, visit www.annenbergcenter.org

Natural Abstract: At the Burrison GalleryThe Burrison Gallery in the University Club at

Penn is showcasing Natural Abstract: Paintings by Rebecca Jacob. Ms. Jacob, a staff member in Facil-ities & Real Estate Services, captures images with careful use of color. She received her BFA from the Moore College of Art and Design and continued her studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, School of the Visual Arts, The Art Students League and The Cleveland Museum of Art.

A reception will be held on Thursday, Janu-ary 11 from 4-6 p.m. The exhibit runs through February 1.

“What in the World?” Early Television Meets the World of Archaeology, 1950-1966: At the Penn Museum Exhibit

The Penn Museum Archives’ exhibit, “What in the World?” Early Television Meets the World of Archaeology, 1950-1966, is being presented in conjunction with the University of Pennsylvania Provost Office’s Year of Innovation. The new exhibit looks back at the pioneering Penn Museum television program that aired on WCAU Philadelphia for more than a decade and was syndicated nationally by CBS from 1951-1955. By means of photographs, letters, other documents and video clips, the exhibition focuses on the highly original game show that aired in the early days of tele-vision. Hosted by Penn Museum Director Froelich Rainey, the program featured a changing panel of experts from diverse fields, who worked together to puzzle out “Where in the World” an artifact from the Museum’s collections came from. The exhibit runs through April.

(Above) Carleton Coon, Jacques Lipchitz, Alfred Kidder II and Froelich Rainey, pointing at globe, on the TV set of What in the World?

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The University of Pennsylvania Police Department Community Crime Report

About the Crime Report:BelowaretheCrimesAgainstPersonsorCrimesAgainstSocietyfromthecampus report for December 25-31, 2017.Alsoreportedwere7crimesagainstproperty(7thefts)with1ar-rest.Fullreportsareavailableat:https://almanac.upenn.edu/sections/crimesPriorweeks’reportsarealsoonline.—Eds.

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Celebrated avant-garde trumpeter/composer Peter Evans and three members of his band join up with the Relâche New Music Ensemble, in residence at the Penn Museum, for Not So Quiet City, on Sunday, January 14 at 2 p.m.

Mr. Evans, the recipient of this year’s Dina Wind Commission, is renowned for his eclec-tic palette, collaborative spirit, and virtuosic playing. Improvisation and experimentation will permeate the concert’s program. In addi-tion to some of his own improvisational com-positions, the program includes Pauline Olive-ros’ The Well, Chuck Holdeman’s Mural Music, a 2014 collaboration with Mural Arts Philadel-phia, and a Relâche version of Aaron Copland’s

Quiet City.Ms. Oliveros’ The Well was originally com-

posed for Relâche in 1983. Performers are given a musical palette from which to spon-taneously create, and instructions on how to in-teract with one another, resulting in a sublime, unique sound every time the piece is performed. Relâche bassoonist Chuck Holdeman wrote Mu-ral Music to accompany artist Shira Walinsky’s Southeast by Southeast mural, which celebrates the experiences of refugees from the Himalayan region who now live in South Philadelphia. Aar-on Copland’s Quiet City closes the first half of the program, showcasing the improvisatory tal-ents of both Relâche English horn player Lloyd Shorter and guest artist Mr. Evans over an ach-ingly beautiful arrangement of Copland’s origi-nal music.

Mr. Evans takes over the second half, first showcasing his band, which includes Relâche keyboardist Ron Stabinsky as well as violinist Mazz Swift, percussionist Shayna Dunkelman, and bassist Moppa Elliot. The program ends with Mr. Evans’ new piece for Relâche, the Dina Wind Commission for this third annual Dina Wind Memorial Concert. Dina Wind (1938-2014) was a Philadelphia artist, philanthropist, and ardent Relâche supporter and board mem-ber whose endowment fund supports this pro-gram.

Not So Quiet City is presented in the Widen-er Hall of the Penn Museum, 3260 South Street. Tickets are $20 general admission; $15 for se-niors; $10 for Penn Museum members; and $5 for students with ID, with an accompanying stu-dent free. Tickets may be purchased online in advance at www.penn.museum, or at the door subject to availability. Tickets may be used to enter and explore the Museum galleries any time after 1 p.m. on the day of the concert.

Relâche New Music Ensemble Presents Not So Quiet City With Peter Evans

Peter Evans

CHILDREN’S ACTIVITY14 Young Artists Brain Art Workshop; free work-shop for children 6 and older that is part of the art exhibition Networks Within and Around Us; 1:30-3 p.m.; register: https://esther-klein-gallery.tick-etleap.com/young-artists-brain-art-workshop (Es-ther Klein Gallery).

EXHIBIT13 Impressions in Ink: Masterworks from the Arthur Ross Collection; celebration of the Arthur Ross Gallery turning 35; opening reception: Janu-ary 12 from 5-7:30 p.m. Through March 25.

TALKS10 Biomimetic and Responsive Biomaterial Hy-drogels for Regenerative Medicine; Jennifer Pat-terson, KU Leuven; 2 p.m.; rm. 123C, Abramson Pediatric Research Center (CHOP).16 3-D Bioprinting and its Application to Re-generative Medicine; Daniel Grande, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research; noon; rm. 123C, Abramson Pediatric Research Center (CHOP).

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The Arthur Ross Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to present Impres-sions in Ink: Prints from the Arthur Ross Col-lection (January 13-March 25, 2018) of 30 ex-ceptional prints by French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists that includes Cézanne, De-gas, Gauguin, Manet, Matisse, Pissarro, Renoir, and Toulouse-Lautrec, drawn from the superb collection of the Gallery’s founder, Arthur Ross (Almanac September 18, 2007).

The exhibition, which includes a national symposium and interdisciplinary programs, in-augurates the Arthur Ross Gallery’s 35th Anni-versary year (Almanac February 1, 1983). Cu-rated by Lynn Marsden-Atlass, the exhibition is organized with Yale University Art Gallery and all works are lent from The Arthur Ross Collec-tion, Yale University Art Gallery.

Opening ReceptionThe opening reception will be held on Fri-

day, January 12, 5-7:30 p.m. with remarks at 6 p.m. from Provost Wendell Pritchett, Janet C. Ross and Ms. Marsden-Atlass. RSVP (215) 898-2083 or pendoley@upenn.edu

Related ProgramsThursday, January 25, 5:30 p.m.; Conversa-

tion: Kaja Silverman, Sachs Professor in Con-temporary Art, and photographer/artist Clifford Ross; light refreshments.

Tuesday, January 30 and Friday, March 16, 1-2 p.m.; Art Reset With Lauren Altman, MFA’18.

Saturday, February 10, noon-3 p.m.; Print-maker Pop-Up Market.

First Wednesdays February 7 and March 7, noon, 12 @ 12—an inspiring gallery talk in 12-minutes flat!

35th Anniversary Symposium Impressions In Ink

Thursday, March 15, 1:30-6 p.m.ModeratorsAndré Dombrowski, Associate Pro-

fessor, Department of History of Art, University of Pennsylvania and Lynn Marsden-Atlass, Executive Director, Ar-thur Ross Gallery and University Curator

SpeakersSuzanne Boorsch, The Robert L. Sol-

ley Curator of Prints and Drawings, Yale University Art Gallery

S. Hollis Clayson, Bergen Evans Pro-fessor in the Humanities, Northwestern University

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Professor, Art History, University of California, Berkeley

Jeremy Melius, Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Tufts University

To register, contact Meg Pendley: pendoley@upenn.edu (215) 898-208.3

Additional support for the exhibition is provided by Mrs. Arthur Ross, the Pa-tron’s Circle of the Arthur Ross Gallery, the Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation, the Philadelphia Cultural Fund, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

The Arthur Ross Gallery is located at 220 South 34th Street, (located in the Fisher Fine Arts Library Building), and is free and open to the public.

Hours: Weekdays 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Weekends noon-5 p.m. Closed Mondays. Visit on Facebook and Twitter. To reserve a group tour please contact us at pendol-ey@upenn.edu or (215) 898-2083.

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Impressions In Ink: Prints from the Arthur Ross Collection—

Inaugurating the Arthur Ross Gallery’s 35th Year

Two of the works from the Yale University Art Gallery, Arthur Ross Collection will be on dis-play at the University of Pennsylvania’s Arthur Ross Gallery January 13 through March 25.

(Above) PierreAuguste Renoir, The Country Dance, ca. 1890, etching.

(Upper right) Édouard Manet, The Spanish Singer, 1861, etching and aquatint.

Highlights from 35 years of ARG Exhibitions

As the Arthur Ross Gallery begins cel-ebrating its 35th anniversary, here’s a look back at how Almanac featured some of the gallery’s more than 250 exhibitions includ-ing the following:

The Disasters of War: La Tauromaquia, Spanish Entertainment, and Other Prints of Francisco Goya (Almanac February 1, 1983).

The Silent Language of Guatemalan Tex-tiles (Almanac January 15, 1985).

Women in Ancient Egypt: From a Century of Excavation by The University Museum (Al-manac February 3, 1987).

Penn Prints: Thirty Years of Printmaking at the University of Pennsylvania (Almanac November 6, 1990).

Graced Places: The Architecture of Wilson Eyre (Almanac March 15, 1994).

Constructing Penn: Heritage, Imagination, Innovation (Almanac October 25, 1994).

Mary Ellen Mark: 30 Years (Almanac May 7, 1996).

Confronting Cancer Through Art (Almanac June 18, 1996).

The Fragrance of Ink: Korean Literati Paintings of the Chosen Dynasty (1392-1910) (Almanac November 18, 1997).

Sargent to Freud: Modern British Paint-ings and Drawings in The Beaverbrook Art Gallery (Almanac November 3, 1998).

Transformation: Jews and Modernity (Al-manac April 10, 2001).

Sam Maitin: A Life in Art (Almanac Janu-ary 11, 2005).

Hitoshi Nakazato: Print Series (Almanac May 8, 2007).

The Mennonites: Photographs by Larry Towell (Almanac July 17, 2007).

Treasured Pages: Medieval and Renais-sance Manuscripts from the Free Library of Philadelphia (Almanac October 16, 2007).

The Making of a Room: Louis Kahn Furni-ture and Interiors (Almanac February 24, 2009).

West Philadelphia: Building a Community (Almanac September 29, 2009).

Laughing Matters: Soviet Propaganda in Khrushchev’s Thaw 1956-1964 (Almanac April 6, 2010).

An American Odyssey: The Warner Col-lection of American Art (Almanac September 27, 2011).

Lauren Greenfield’s Girl Culture (Alma-nac April 5, 2011).

Double Take: Series, Multiples and Prints (Almanac November 22, 2011).

California Impressionism: Masters of Light from The Irvine Museum (Almanac Sep-tember 25, 2012).

Creating: Quilts of the Lakota (Almanac February 5, 2013).

On the Wings of Eagle and Raven: Tlingit and Haida Traditions (Almanac April 1, 2014).

Shared Vision: The Myron A. and Anna Jaffe Portenar Collection (Almanac Septem-ber 9, 2014).

Paul Strand: The Mexican Portfolio (Al-manac January 27, 2015).

Courtly Treasures: The Collection of Thomas W. Evans, Surgeon Dentist to Napole-an III (Almanac July 14, 2015).

Expanding the Audience for Art in the 19th Century at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (Almanac March 29, 2016).

Darkwater Revival: After Terry Adkins (Almanac September 13, 2016).

Landscape/Soundscape (Almanac January 10, 2017).

Willie Cole: On-Site (Almanac April 18, 2017).

A View of One’s Own: Three Women Photog-raphers in Rome- Ester Boise Van Deman, Geor-gina Masson, and Jeannette Montgomery Bar-ron (Almanac September 5, 2017).

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