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Faculty Awards

Source: https://bepp.wharton.upenn.edu/faculty/faculty-awards/ Parent: https://bepp.wharton.upenn.edu/programs/undergraduate/program-information1/american-public-policy-minor/

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BEPP’s Corinne Low and Melissa E. Sanchez of the English department win 2020 Compassionate Community Award for their work creating Open Hearts Initiative

Two Penn professors, Melissa E. Sanchez (English, Comp Lit, GSWS) and Corinne Low (Wharton) have learned that an organization that they lead, the Upper West Side Open Hearts Initiative, won the 2020 NYC Coalition for the Homeless Compassionate Community Award. Low co-founded the Open Hearts Initiative to support the residents of three shelters that have been temporarily relocated to Upper West Side hotels to reduce crowding and stop the spread of Covid-19. Sanchez soon joined the leadership committee. Working with shelter residents and care providers and local neighbors, schools, businesses, and religious leaders, Open Hearts has provided unhoused New Yorkers with moral and material support. As part of this effort, Open Hearts has organized community art events to show shelter residents welcome and support; rallies, marches, and sleep-outs; voter registration drives; addiction and recovery counseling; and drives in which people can donate food, supplies, clothing, and Metrocards. Amidst NYC budget cuts on the one hand and wealthy residents’ opposition to neighborhood shelters on the other, Open Hearts has sought to engage shelter residents in representing their own needs and interests. Sanchez and Low agree that the most meaningful evaluation of Open Hearts’ impact comes from unhoused persons themselves: “Since coming to the Upper West Side community and experiencing a negative backlash from a small minority of community residents, it was refreshing for there to emerge a bigger group, under the banner of UWS Open Hearts Initiative, that showed me and my fellow residents what love is in every sense of the word,” said a Lucerne resident who goes by the moniker Da Homeless Hero. “As a person who is affected by generational trauma, I am grateful for the expression of love and support presented by the UWS Open Hearts Initiative and look forward to continuing to work with them to make our experience in this community a healthy and beneficial experience.”

More details about the award can be found at https://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/compassionate-communities-award-2020/, and more details about the work of Open Hearts can be found at https://www.uwsopenhearts.org/. For a short video capturing a voter registration drive organized by Open Hearts (with a voiceover by Sanchez), see https://twitter.com/UWSOpenHearts/status/1308058403143639043. - Ulrich Doraszelski - Dean’s Research Fund, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2010, 2015, 2019 and 2020, 2020

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Awarded by the Geneva Association and the International Insurance Society in recognition of his outstanding work on the role of public-private  partnerships in mitigating nd managing risk. - Katherine L. Milkman - Excellence in Teaching Award for the Undergraduate Division at Wharton, 2015 - Katherine L. Milkman - Society for Judgment and Decision Making FABBS Early Career Award Winner, 2015 - Katherine L. Milkman - Marketing Science Institute Young Scholar, 2015 - Olivia S. Mitchell - Top 10 Women Economists, World Economic Forum, 2015

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Awarded for “What Happens the Morning After? The Costs and Benefits of Expanding Access to Emergency Contraception,” with Tal Gross and Jeanne Lafortune. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 33(1), 2014 - Katherine L. Milkman - Finalist for the Anvil Award for the Most Outstanding MBA Teacher at Wharton, 2014

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Project Title: “Using Behavioral Economics to Promote Medication Adherence and Habit Formation” (with Dmitry Taubinsky and Eric Zwick)

Total Received for Project: $150,400

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The Excellence in Teaching Awards are awarded annually to eight (8) MBA faculty members who receive the highest average instructor rating on their course evaluation forms over the three prior semesters. The course evaluation forms are filled out by the students at the conclusion of every course. - Olivia S. Mitchell - Top 50 Women in Wealth, Wealth Management, 2010 - Olivia S. Mitchell - Retirement Income Industry Association Award for Achievement in Applied Retirement Research, 2010 - Iwan Barankay - Sloan Research Fellowship, 2010 - Joseph Harrington - Honorable Mention for the Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Fund Writing Award for antitrust scholarship, 2010

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(with Paul Schoemaker and Paul Kleindorfer) for the program “Decision Sciences Applied to University Problems.” The award is given annually for outstanding achievements in the area of educational innovation in undergraduate education for business administration.

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