Awards, accolades, and honors across the Penn community
A roundup of the latest awards and honors for several faculty members and one student in six Schools.
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In the School of Arts & Sciences, Colton Sheehan, a sixth-year Ph.D. student in the lab of Thomas Mallouk, Vagelos Professor in Energy Research, has been named a Schmidt Science Fellow—a prestigious honor given to “the next generation of science leaders, transcending disciplines and working to solve the world’s most pressing problems.”
Penn physicists led by Bo Zhen have created hybrid light-matter particles that interact strongly enough to compute, pointing toward ultrafast, low-energy optical AI hardware.
Penn’s newest supercomputer is transforming research
Penn’s first campus-wide HPC and AI cluster, “Betty,” is expanding access to powerful computing, enabling groundbreaking projects, and fostering new collaborations across disciplines.
A bioengineered bean gum from the lab of Penn Dental’s Henry Daniell is found to reduce the levels of three microbes associated with head and neck squamous cell cancer to almost zero, without affecting the beneficial bacteria normally found in the mouth.
Fighting oral cancer with bioengineered chewing gum
Research led by Penn Dental’s Henry Daniell shows that antiviral and antibacterial chewing gums reduce the levels of three microbes linked to worse outcomes in oral cancers, paving the way for more effective and affordable therapies.
The performing arts at Penn: Process, practice, and purpose
In the vivid tapestry of performing arts groups at Penn, students prepare for their performances while simultaneously enriching their college experience.
