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Awards
Dingle repeats as Ivy League Rookie of the Week
The freshman guard earned his second straight Ivy League Rookie of the Week honor, and fifth overall.
NY Jets linebacker, a Penn alum, awarded NFLPA’s highest honor
Brandon Copeland has been recognized for his community service work, and positively impacting his team’s city and communities across the country.
Penn senior Srinivas Mandyam awarded Churchill Scholarship
Mandyam will graduate in May with a bachelor’s degree in physics, mathematics, and biophysics, along with a master’s in physics; the scholarship awards him a year of graduate research study in physics at the University of Cambridge.
Brodeur, Dingle feted by Big 5, Ivy League
The senior forward and freshman guard have been awarded Player of the Week and Rookie of the Week honors, respectively.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson honored with National Academy of Sciences award
The award recognizes Jamison for her “nonpartisan crusade to ensure the integrity of facts.”
Lashley scores ECAC Rookie of the Week
The freshman gymnast put up high marks on the floor, vault, and beam.
Gutsy performance in loss earns Padilla Ivy honor
The freshman guard on the women’s basketball team scored a game-high 27 points in Penn’s loss to No. 25 Princeton on Saturday.
Padilla rings in New Year with Ivy ovation
The freshman guard has been named Ivy League Player of the Week and Ivy League Rookie of the Week.
An Alzheimer’s research pioneer, right here at Penn
Virginia Man-Yee Lee, a professor and researcher at the Perelman School of Medicine, is the 2020 recipient of a Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, earning $3 million for her innovative, inspiring work that could one day cure various neurodegenerative diseases.
Prince of the Quakers
The senior defensive lineman discusses his playing days as a Quaker, becoming a smarter football player, his favorite memories, and his ultimate goal of becoming a doctor.
In the News
He started college in prison. Now, he is Rutgers-Camden’s first Truman scholar
Tej Patel, a third-year in the Wharton School and College of Arts and Sciences from Billeria, Massachusetts, was one of 60 college students nationwide chosen to be a 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
Drew Weissman of the Perelman School of Medicine, who won the Nobel Prize along with Katalin Karikó, discusses the backlash against vaccinations and whether to receive the latest COVID vaccine.
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Princeton and Penn scientists win Philly award for their climate change work
Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences has won the 2023 John Scott Award for his work to address climate change.
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