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The South Asia Center and the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is hosting a conference in honor of Indira V. Peterson (Asian Studies, Emeritus). The New Cultural Histories of South India Conference will be November 9-10, 2019 and will explore Aesthetics, Social Change, and the Politics of Culture.

Pickbourn, L. 2023. Invited panel presentation on Leveraging Commodities for Sustainable Economic Development at the 2023 Joint Meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Council and the Economic and Financial Committee of the General Assembly on October 10, 2023.

Travel fellowship from the for the project "Curricular Connections: Mapping, Transposing, and Teaching Research Methods in Geology, Geography, and Environmental Science." This fellowship will pay for Caro to travel to the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, MO in order to utilize specialized materials in support of ongoing work in her liaison areas.

Heather Pon-Barry (Computer Science) received a National Science Foundation grant for her project 'CAREER: Dialogue Engagement for Educational Robots.' The project is for five years. (2020)

Audrey St. John, Heather Pon-Barry and Becky Wai-Ling Packard received a Microsoft Corporation grant for the project "Development of Core Modules as Curricular Assets for Tech Mentorship Initiative." The project is for 2.5 months. Combined award to Audrey St. John (Computer Science), Heather Pon-Barry (Computer Science) and Becky Packard (Psychology and Education).

Pon-Barry, H., St. John, A., Packard, B. W., &  Stephenson, C. (2017). Addressing the CS capacity challenge by improving undergraduate peer mentoring. ACM Inroads, 8(3), 43–47.

Pon-Barry, H., Packard, B. W., & St. John, A. (2017). Expanding capacity and promoting inclusion in introductory computer science: A focus on near-peer mentor preparation and code review. Computer Science Education, 27(1), 54–77.

Chaffey, T., Kim, H., Nobrega, E., Lubold, N., & Pon-Barry, H. (2018). Dyadic Stance in Natural Language Communication with a Teachable Robot. In HRI '18 Companion: 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 85–86.

Lubold, N., Walker, E., Pon-Barry, H., & Ogan, A. (2018). Automated Pitch Convergence Improves Learning in a Social, Teachable Robot for Middle School Mathematics. In Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED).

Lubold, N., Walker, E., & Pon-Barry, H. (2021). Effects of Adapting to User Pitch on Rapport Perception, Behavior, and State with a Social Robotic Learning Companion. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 31: 35-73.