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Awards
Tenacious men’s squash triumvirate awarded All-American honors
Seniors Andrew Douglas and Aly Abou Eleinen are First-Team selections and freshman Nathan Kueh is a Second-Team honoree.
Ivy League gives props to three Quakers
Sarah Schneider of the softball team, Asa Wilson of the baseball team, and Krissy Kowalski of the women’s lacrosse team have earned weekly conference recognition.
Quakers crowned inaugural GEC champions
Penn Gymnastics bested seven other teams on Saturday to win the first-ever GEC Championship and set a new team score record in the process.
Thomas concludes spectacular season with national title
The senior won gold in the 500 freestyle at the 2022 NCAA Championships, making her the first female swimmer in school history to win an individual national title.
Dingle, Padilla, pick up First-Team All-Ivy honors
The sophomore on the men’s basketball team and junior on the women’s basketball team both led the Ivy League in scoring.
Former hooper Bruce Lefkowitz elected to Big 5 Hall of Fame
The 1987 alumnus led the Quakers in scoring during his junior and senior seasons, and was the Red & Blue’s top rebounder in each of his four years.
Penn announces nine 2022 Thouron Scholars
Five seniors and four recent alumni have received a 2022 Thouron Award to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom. Each scholarship recipient receives tuition for up to two years, as well as travel and living stipends, to earn a graduate degree there.
Roger Reina named EIWA Coach of the Year
The head coach of the wrestling team led the Quakers to a second-place finish at the 118th EIWA Championships over the weekend, their highest spot since 2010.
Slajchert’s superb play secures Ivy Rookie of the Week status
The sophomore guard scored 18 points against Yale on Friday and 16 points against Brown on Saturday, including the game-winning bucket.
Thomas takes home four first-place finishes at Ivy Championships
The senior put up record-breaking times in three individual events and one relay event, which helped the Quakers achieve their highest finish ever at the conference Championships.
In the News
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Tyshawn Sorey of the School of Arts & Sciences has won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in music for “Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith),” a concerto for saxophone and orchestra.
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He started college in prison. Now, he is Rutgers-Camden’s first Truman scholar
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Storyshares seeks to raise reading levels of forgotten tweens, teens and adults
John Gamba of the Graduate School of Education served as the Storyshares literary hub’s strategy and research mentor at the 2023 Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition.
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The mRNA miracle workers
Nobel laureates Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman of the Perelman School of Medicine appear on “Sunday Morning” to discuss their careers, their mRNA research, and the COVID-19 vaccines.
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The Franklin Institute honors nine scientists and engineers on its 200th anniversary
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman of the Perelman School of Medicine are noted for receiving awards from the Franklin Institute and subsequently being honored with a Nobel Prize.
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You should still get the COVID-19 vaccine. The Nobel Prize winner who helped discover it explains why
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