Awards and accolades for Penn faculty, faculty emeritus, and graduate students
Members of Penn’s faculty present and past along with graduate students in the School of Arts & Sciences, Penn Carey Law, Penn Vet, and the Weitzman School are featured.
Five students from the School of Veterinary Medicine have been selected as the School’s inaugural cohort of Stamps Fellows, a scholarship initiative through the Stamps Scholars Program: Halle Avratin; Vernard L. Hodges; Namju Kim; Caroline O’Rourke; and Raegan Petch.
And in the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, KlimaKover, a modular, solar-powered radiant cooling shelter designed by Thermal Architecture Lab—led by assistant professor of architecture professor Dorit Aviv—and partners has won an Honor Award at the AIANY+ASLANY Transportation & Infrastructure Design Excellence Awards.
When the Schuylkill swallowed the city: Lessons from Hurricane Ida’s historic flood
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.
The Fed explained: What it does and why it matters
Former Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker and financial historian Peter Conti-Brown, both Wharton professors, unpack the central bank’s origins, its unusual structure, and the quiet ways it shapes the economy
How population changes are impacting primary education worldwide
Research from Penn sociologist Emily Hannum and colleagues reveals regional trends in whether school-age populations are increasing, plateauing, or decreasing—and shows how different countries are responding.
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.
