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Where the Class of 2026 is headed
Two Penn Med students and two others under a 2026 balloon at Penn’s 2026 Match Day.

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Where the Class of 2026 is headed

Graduates from all 12 Schools are taking their degrees and expertise and heading out into the world as graduate students, postdocs, residents, entrepreneurs, startup execs, policy workers, and more, with the interdisciplinary groundwork of a Penn degree in tow.

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Penn fourth-year and graduate student named 2026 Knight-Hennessy Scholars
Naseebullah Andar and Brianna Leung

Fourth-year Naseebullah Andar and graduate student Brianna Leung are 2026 Knight-Hennessy Scholars.

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Penn fourth-year and graduate student named 2026 Knight-Hennessy Scholars

The scholarship provides financial support for as long as three years to pursue a graduate degree and global leadership training at Stanford University.

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Awards and accolades for faculty and graduate students
College Green in spring.

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Awards and accolades for faculty and graduate students

A roundup of the latest awards and honors for several faculty members and graduate students across various Penn Schools.

Penn Today Staff

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Emmy Keogh is buttering up her post-graduation plans
Emmy Keogh selling her butter at table.

Emmy Keogh is a Class of 2026 communications major and founder of bespoke butter company Debonair Butter Company.

(Image: Courtesy of Annenberg School for Communication)

Emmy Keogh is buttering up her post-graduation plans

The graduating fourth-year communications major has used many of Penn’s resources for entrepreneurs to get her bespoke butter company churning.

From Annenberg School for Communication

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Innovating computer chips to run more efficiently
Nhlanhla Mavuso looking at an electronic board in the Moore Building.

Nhlanhla Mavuso of Fluid Silicon at work in the Moore Building.

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Innovating computer chips to run more efficiently

Fluid Silicon, a platform from President’s Sustainability Prize winner Nhlanhla Mavuso, allows computer chips to continuously monitor their health and self-tune as their characteristics change. The technology has the potential to reduce energy usage in data centers and improve reliability in mission-critical applications.

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A robotic solution for safer tree trimming
Margaret Zhu working in the Venture Lab.

Margaret Zhu and the Serpent Robotics team fine-tuning their robot at Tangen Hall.

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A robotic solution for safer tree trimming

Margaret Zhu and the Serpent Robotics team have leveraged Penn resources to create a tree-cutting robot, improving safety in a dangerous industry. The President’s Innovation Prize allows Zhu to iterate and pilot the device over the next year.

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When the Schuylkill swallowed the city
Two people looking at the flooded highway overpass in Philadelphia after flooding from Hurricane Ida.

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When the Schuylkill swallowed the city

New Penn research shows that Hurricane Ida wasn’t a once-in-a-century anomaly but a preview of how climate change, urbanization, and aging infrastructure are rewriting flood risk.

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Using AI to help predict cardiac arrests
A doctor looking at EKG heart data.

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Using AI to help predict cardiac arrests

A Penn Engineering and Penn Medicine team built CAMEL, an artificial intelligence model that forecasts dangerous cardiac rhythms before they strike. Their findings pave the way for a new era of real-time, predictive heart care.

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