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Four Penn students are 2023 Goldwater Scholars
Four students who are winners of 2023 Goldwater Prize

Penn’s newest Goldwater Scholars are (clockwise from top left) third-years Andreas Ghosh, Zijian (William) Niu, Angela Song, and Jason Wang.

(Images: Courtesy of Ghosh, Niu, Song, and Wang)

Four Penn students are 2023 Goldwater Scholars

Goldwater Scholarships are awarded to students planning research careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, or engineering.
To protect children online, researchers call for cross-disciplinary collaboration
A child uses a cell phone in a dark room

“Technology often has mixture of benefits and perils,” says Gideon Nave of the Wharton School. He teamed with legal and scientific experts to call for research to fuel evidence-backed laws and policies to protect children in the digital world.

(Image: iStock)

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    • To protect children online, researchers call for cross-disciplinary collaboration

    A team of neuroscientists and legal experts, including Gideon Nave of the Wharton School, published a perspective in Science drawing attention to the need to develop science-backed policies that take into account children’s vulnerabilities in the digital world.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    The Big Bang at 75
    An image of a nebula, a giant cloud of dust and gas in space.

    Where did the cosmos come from? This question has long been part of human speculation, says Vijay Balasubramanian. Today, thanks to scientists like Ralph Alpher and George Gamow, we have a rough picture: Some 13 billion years ago, the universe was a hot, dense state that cooled as it expanded. 

    (Image: NASA via Unsplash.)

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    • The Big Bang at 75

    Theoretical physicist Vijay Balasubramanian discusses the 75th anniversary of the alpha-beta-gamma paper, what we know—and don’t know—about the universe and the “very big gaps” left to discover.

    Kristina Linnea García

    Thabo Lenneiye on PennPraxis, global outreach, and cross-discipline collaboration
    Thabo Lenneiye on Penn’s campus.

    Managing director of PennPraxis Thabo Lenneiye.

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    Thabo Lenneiye on PennPraxis, global outreach, and cross-discipline collaboration

    The new managing director of The Weitzman School’s PennPraxis is a Penn alum who has worked for years on complex mixed-use development and urban planning projects and spearheading DEI initiatives.

    From the Weitzman School of Design

    Translating Russophone poetry of resistance into English
    People sit around a table with a bowl of fresh fruit in front of a sign reading Your language my ear.

    Working on translations are (left to right) poet Igor Gulin, Penn Professor Kevin M.F. Platt (obscured), doctoral student in Penn’s Comparative Literature and Literary Theory Program Hilah Kohen, poet Ruthie Jenrbekova and Veniamin Gushchin of Columbia University.

    (Image: Courtesy of Narek Dallakyan and PEN America)

    Translating Russophone poetry of resistance into English

    A poetry translation symposium organized by Kevin M.F. Platt of the School of Arts & Sciences and colleagues, in partnership with PEN America, brought a group of Russian-language poets and American translators and scholars together in Armenia last fall.

    Kristen de Groot

    Gregory Bowman appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor
    Greg Bowman

    Gregory Bowman, the Louis Heyman University Professor, has joint appointments in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics in the Perelman School of Medicine and the Department of Bioengineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

    (Image: Courtesy of School of Engineering and Applied Sciences)

    Gregory Bowman appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor

    The pioneer of biophysics and data science has joint appointments in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics in the Perelman School of Medicine and the Department of Bioengineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
    Winners of President’s Sustainability Prize are making a difference for people and the planet
    community grocer team Eli Moraru won the 2022 President’s Sustainability Prize for his work with Alex Imbot on The Community Grocer (TCG). Moraru and Imbot hope to launch a new business model, revolutionizing food stamp usage by reinventing the corner store and reimagining nutritional assistance.

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    Winners of President’s Sustainability Prize are making a difference for people and the planet

    Springboarded by University recognition and support, the alums behind the three prize-winning projects—Baleena, The Community Grocer, and Shinkei Systems—are realizing, even surpassing, their goals.

    Katherine Unger Baillie , Kristina Linnea García , Nathi Magubane