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Celebrating Penn’s Named Scholarship Program in New York City
Magill on stage with three students smiling

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Celebrating Penn’s Named Scholarship Program in New York City

President Liz Magill moderated a panel featuring three students who shared their unique paths to and extraordinary experiences at Penn, thanks to the University’s generous donor community.

Lauren Hertzler

Penn Athletics launches formalized internship program
Penn Athletics interns stand at center court at the Palestra near the Penn logo

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Penn Athletics launches formalized internship program

In the first year of the formalized program in 2022-23, Penn Athletics has doubled its internship pool from 25 to 50.

Kevin Bonner

Good Friday Agreement, 25 years later
Former prime minister Sir Tony Blair and then taoiseach Bertie Ahern sign the Good Friday agreement 25 years ago.

Then-U.K. prime minister Tony Blair (left) and then-Taoiseach Bertie Ahern sign the Good Friday Agreement on April 10, 1998. 

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Good Friday Agreement, 25 years later

Brendan O’Leary of the School of Arts & Sciences looks back at the deal that brought peace to Northern Ireland.

Kristen de Groot

Designing for, and with, forests
From left: Lon Henderson, U.S. Forest Service; Weitzman students Ari Vamos, Vyusti Agarwalla, Jiajing Dai, Caz Gagne, and Oliver Atwood.

Treated fire resilient forest, after thinning and prescribed burning, in the Tahoe National Forest, a project partner with the North Yuba Forest Partnership. From left: Lon Henderson, U.S. Forest Service; Weitzman students Ari Vamos, Vyusti Agarwalla, Jiajing Dai, Caz Gagne, and Oliver Atwood.

(Image: Nicholas Pevzner)

Designing for, and with, forests

Nicholas Pevzner, assistant professor of landscape architecture at the Weitzman School of Design, is leading a landscape architecture studio that focuses on forest management in the American West.

From the Weitzman School of Design

Katharine O. Strunk named Dean of Penn’s top-ranked Graduate School of Education
New GSE dean smiling against colorful backdrop

Katharine O. Strunk

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Katharine O. Strunk named Dean of Penn’s top-ranked Graduate School of Education

Strunk, an award-winning mixed methods scholar at Michigan State University, is an expert on teacher labor markets, school and district improvement and accountability policies, and efforts to boost student achievement. 
Four Penn faculty named 2023 Guggenheim Fellows
a grid of four faces

Four faculty have been awarded the prestigious 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship: (clockwise from upper left) Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor in the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School; and Heather K. Love, professor of English; Jennifer M. Morton, professor of philosophy; and Projit Bihari Mukharji, professor of history and sociology of science in the School of Arts & Sciences.

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Four Penn faculty named 2023 Guggenheim Fellows

PIK Professor Ezekiel J. Emanuel, and Heather K. Love, Jennifer M. Morton, and Projit Bihari Mukharji of the School of Arts & Sciences have been awarded the prestigious fellowship.
Daeyeon Lee delivers lecture on reconnecting in and out of the classroom
Daeyeon Lee points to a slide that reads 'Classroom community' while delivering a lecture.

Daeyeon Lee of the School of Engineering and Applied Science deliver the 2023 Thompson Chair Lecture on April 4, 2023. He spoke about reconnecting in the classroom and building community. 

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Daeyeon Lee delivers lecture on reconnecting in and out of the classroom

Lee, the Evan C Thompson Term Chair for Excellence in Teaching, recently delivered the 2023 Evan C Thompson Lecture, focusing on how to improve students’ sense of community.
COVID-19 and anti-Asian hate
Tiffany Tieu smiles at the camera as she sits on a low white table next to yellow leather chairs.

Research by recent graduates Tiffany Tieu (pictured) and Hope Cho looked at anti-Asian hate experienced by Penn students in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

(Image: Eric Sucar)

COVID-19 and anti-Asian hate

During the peak of the pandemic, psychology major Tiffany Tieu, in a collaborative study, explored anti-Asian racism through the lens of her peers.

Kristen de Groot

Scholarship beyond the written word
Juan Castrillon speaking in a classroom

Homepage image: This semester, Castrillón is co-teaching Critical Qualitative Research and Intentional Torts with Regina Austin of Penn Carey Law and Alissa M. Jordan, director of Penn’s Center for Experimental Ethnography.

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Scholarship beyond the written word

Ethnomusicologist Juan Castrillón, the inaugural Gilbert Seldes Multimodal Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication, is on a quest to get other academics to see multimedia work as he does: on par with scholarly text.

Michele W. Berger, Julie Sloane

New insight into optimal protein dosing for critically ill patients
Image of a person laying in a hospital bed, with a pulse oximeter on their finger.

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New insight into optimal protein dosing for critically ill patients

A study from Penn Nursing’s Charlene Compher and colleagues found that higher protein didn’t help this ICU patient population, and for those with acute kidney failure it actually caused harm.

Michele W. Berger