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How third-year Wharton undergrad Olivia Turman finds community, leadership, and clarity through Williams Café.

William Reason, who earned his bachelor’s degree in philosophy in December and will complete his master’s in May, teaches ethics to Philadelphia public high school students via an ethics curriculum he designed as a Philosopher in Residence

A new study from teams in the labs of Penn Engineering’s Ottman Tertuliano and Robert Carpick describes a new, 3D auto-kirigami deformation of graphene, one of the strongest materials known to science, and how the process could be used to transform 2D graphene into 3D structures.

The Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations develops recommendations for U.S. policies toward China from next generation China scholars and analysts, who are selected as Project Fellows. The Project’s third fellowship cohort was announced in May.

Fourth-year Eric Tao and Class of 2023 graduate Suraj Chandran, both of the School of Arts & Sciences, have each been awarded a 2025 Hertz Fellowship in applied science, engineering, and mathematics by the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation.

An analysis by experts at Penn Medicine finds the Medicare Prescription Payment Plan could help patients avoid large out-of-pocket payments for their first oral cancer prescription.

Penn offices and community partners have options for off-campus pickups, on-campus donations, and additional curbside trash pickup days aimed at keeping the neighborhood clean and limiting what ends up in the landfill.

A trio of Penn Engineering startups took home more than $100,000 at the annual Venture Lab Startup Challenge. Sync Labs, whose AI assistant, Alice, is enhancing caregiving for seniors, claimed the Richard and Ellen Perlman Grand Prize, as well as three other awards. Quok.it, which helps customers leverage unused computing power around the world for tasks like AI training, earned the William G. Simpson and R. Drew Kistler Runner Up Prize.

Weathers, an assistant professor in Penn GSE’s Policy, Organizations, and Leadership division, is one of five early-career researchers who have been selected for the new class of William T. Grant Scholars. Weathers studies the causes and consequences of inequality in K–12 education as well as the effects of K–12 policies on student and school outcomes.

Fourth-year communication student Nick Bausenwein took two gap years to skate professionally with a touring show, competed with the Penn Figure Skating Club, and wrote a thesis on children’s perceptions of film character meet-and-greets.