China Research and Engagement Fund Recipients
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For each funding cycle, CREF recipients are listed below in alphabetical order of the last name of the Principal Investigator.
The Future of U.S. – China Relations
Led by Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law and Director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China Jacques DeLisle, this project will convene a new set of voices, especially younger scholars, from across the social sciences to try to predict and shape the future of U.S. – China relations in a time of unprecedented uncertainty. This project convenes faculty from the Schools of Law, Arts and Sciences, and the Annenberg School of Communication, as well as researchers from several think tanks and China policy networks.
High Speed Rail, Civil Society and Income Inequality
Led by Chao Guo, Associate Professor of Nonprofit Management in the School of Social Policy and Practice and co-Director of Penn’s International Master of Public Administration program, this project extends a hypothesis regarding transport links and the strength of civil society derived from research in the United States to the case of China. In addition to the School of Social Policy and Practice, this project will engage the Fox Leadership International Program and the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships to provide research assistance opportunities to first-generation, low-income, and/or underrepresented students.
Penn Global Bioethics Futures Initiative
This project is led by Penn’s community of bioethicists including Founders Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy and Professor of Pediatrics Steven Joffe and David and Lyn Silfen University Professor of Ethics Jonathan Moreno and aims to convene the first-ever structured dialogue between academic biomedical researchers in the United States, China, and other countries to address critical emerging issues like gene editing and transgenic organisms. This project will involve faculty members from the School of Arts and Sciences and the Perelman School of Medicine as well as several universities and research institutes within China.
Measuring Cultural Determinants of Well-Being in China Using Social Media
Led by Professor of Computer and Information Sciences Lyle Ungar, this project seeks to apply methods developed through a previous effort to measure well-being and mental health outcomes using social media postings in the United States to the case of China, especially by taking account of cultural differences. This project will involve the departments of Psychology and Sociology within the School of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Computer and Information Sciences within the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Spatial Visions Connecting China and the West
Led by Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning Lin Zhongjie, this project brings together nearly a dozen faculty from across the Weitzman School of Design, the Penn Museum, and other parts of the University to chart the shared history of modern architecture in the U.S. and China. This project will engage a total of ten faculty members from the Weitzman School of Design, representing every major field of study within the School.
Comprehensive Global Health Education in China
Principal Investigators: Glen Gaulton, Vice Dean and Faculty Director, Center for Global Health; and Joshua Atkins, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and Co-Director, Penn-China Anesthesia Partnership
Understanding Judicial Outcomes in China
Principal Investigator: Yue Hou, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
China in the Caribbean/The Caribbean in China
Principal Investigator: Deborah Thomas, R. Jean Brownlee Term Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology
Prenatal and Postnatal Secondhand Smoking Exposure on Adolescents' Externalizing Behavior
Principal Investigator: Jianghong Liu, Associate Professor of Nursing, Penn Nursing, Associate Professor of Public Health, Perelman School of Medicine
Targeting Stroke Therapeutic Window
Principal Investigators: Renyu Liu, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Co-Director of Penn-China Anesthesia Partnership Program, Penn Medicine; Jing Zhao, Fudan University
Political Factions, Local Accountability and Economic Performance: Evidence from Chinese Provinces
Principal Investigator: Hanming Fang, Class of 1965 Professor Economics, School of Arts and Sciences
China and Ashkenazic European Jewry: Transnational Encounters
Principal Investigator: Kathryn Hellerstein, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures & Ruth Meltzer Director of the Jewish Studies Program
Co-Principal Investigators: XU, Xin, Diane and Guilford Glazer Chair Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies and Dean of the Glazer Institute of Jewish and Israel Studies, Nanjing University; SONG Lihong, Secretary-General, Chinese National Institute for Jewish Studies, Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Nanjing University, and Deputy Director, Glazer Institute of Jewish Studies, Nanjing University
Improving the Productivity, Efficiency, and Sustainability of Chinese Pork Producers
Principal Investigator: Thomas Parsons, Associate Professor of Swine Production Medicine, Department of Clinical Studies – New Bolton Center
Co-Principal Investigators: David T Galligan, Professor of Animal Health Economics; Gary Althouse, Professor and Chairman, Department of Clinical Studies, New Bolton Center & Marion Dilley and David George Jones Endowed Chair in Animal Reproduction
Planning for Large-Scale Aviation Growth on the Ground and in the Air in China
Principal Investigator: Megan Ryerson, Assistant Professor of City of Regional Planning and Electrical and Systems Engineering
Symposium and Summer School on “Pattern Recognition and Human Centered Robotics”
Principal Investigator: Jianbo Shi, Professor of Computer and Information Science & GRASP Laboratory Co-Principal Investigators: Shu Yang, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
A Comparison of Chinese, EU, and U.S. Competition Law and Policy
Principal Investigator: Christopher Yoo, John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science; Director, Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition
Co-Principal Investigators: Joseph Harrington, Patrick T. Harker Professor & Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, The Wharton School
Acquisitions by Chinese Multinational Enterprises and the Host Country Environment
Principal Investigator: Minyuan Zhao, Associate Professor of Management
Co-Principal Investigator: Shixiang Wang, School of Management, Zhejiang University
Prenatal Ambient Air Pollution and Fetal and Child Development in South China
Principal Investigator: Jere Behrman, W.R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Economics
A Tale of Two Capitals: A Comparative Study of Development in Beijing and Ulaanbaatar
Principal Investigator: Mien-hwa Chiang, Director, Chinese Language Program; Senior Lecturer in Foreign Languages Co-Principal Investigators: Melissa DiFrancesco, Associate Director, Center for East Asian Studies; David Dettmann, U.S. Director, American Center for Mongolian Studies (ACMS)
The United States, China, and International Law
Principal Investigator: Jacques deLisle, Professor of Law Co-Principal Investigator: William W. Burke-White, Deputy Dean and Professor of Law, and Richard Perry Professor and Inaugural Director, Perry World House
China in Global Economic History
Principal Investigator: Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, Professor of Economics
Improving the Productive and Health Efficiency of the Chinese Dairy Industry
Principal Investigator: David Galligan, Professor of Animal Health Economics
Co-Principal Investigators: Jim Ferguson, Professor of Nutrition; Zhengxia Dou, Professor of Agricultural Systems
Principal Investigator: Mauro Guillen, Director, The Lauder Institute
Co-Principal Investigators: Frederick Dickinson, Deputy Director, Center for the Integrated Study of Japan; Kenric Tsethlikai, Managing Director, The Lauder Institute
Penn China Cardiovascular Imaging Project
Principal Investigator: Yuchi Han, MD, MMSc, Assistant Professor of Medicine
Co-Principal Investigators: Dinesh Jagasia, MBBS, FAAC, Professor of Clinical Medicine; Yundai Chen, MD, PhD, Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine, PLA General Hospital
Advancing Dental Research and Clinical Practice in China
Principal Investigator: Syngcuk Kim, DDS, PhD, Louis I Grossman Professor of Endodontics & Associate Dean for Global Affairs
Co-Principal Investigators: Songtao Shi, DDS, PhD., Chair and Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology; Dana Graves, DDS, DMSc, Interim Chair and Professor of Periodontics, Vice Dean for Scholarship and Research Director for the Doctor of Science in Dentistry Program; Hyun Koo, DDS, PhD, Professor of Orthodontics
Principal Investigator: Mark Liberman, Director, Linguistic Data Consortium
Co-Principal Investigators: Christopher Cieri, Executive Director; Jiahong Yuan, Associate Director of Speech Research
Ownership Challenges and the Next Round of Reform of Chinese State-Controlled Enterprises
Principal Investigator: Marshall Meyer, Professor Emeritus of Management and Sociology
Co-Principal Investigators: Ann Harrison, Professor of Management and Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy; Minyuan Zhao, Associate Professor of Management; Linda Zhao, Professor of Statistics
Principal Investigator: Rosemary Polomano, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor Pain Practice; Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Co-Principal Investigators: Renyu Liu, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Co-Director, Penn-China Anesthesia Partnership Program; Joshua H. Atkins MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Co-Director Penn-China Anesthesia Partnership Program
Principal Investigators: Ali Rahim, Professor of Architecture; Stefan Al, Associate Professor of Urban Design
The PennDesign China Research Program
Principal Investigator: Marilyn Jordan Taylor, Dean
Co-Principal Investigators: Richard Weller, Martin and Margy Meyerson Chair of Urbanism and Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture; John Landis, Professor in the Department of City & Regional Planning; Stefan Al, Associate Professor of Urban Design; Randy Mason, Professor and Chair of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation and Executive Director of PennPraxis; Nancy Davenport, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Photography
Principal Investigator: Susan Wachter, Sussman Professor of Real Estate
Community in-Alliance for Recovery: Challenging Mental Health Stigma in Rural China
Principal Investigator: Yin Ling Irene Wong, Associate Professor
Co-Principal Investigators: Mao-Sheng Ran, The University of Hong Kong Department of Social Work & Social Administration; An-Li Wang, Annenberg Public Policy Center; David Metzger, Department of Psychiatry
Principal Investigator: Guobin Yang, Associate Professor
