Awards and accolades for Penn faculty, undergraduate, and graduate students
A roundup of the latest awards for various faculty members and students in the School of Arts & Sciences, Penn Carey Law, Annenberg School for Communication, and the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
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In Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences, philosophy professor Errol Lordwas awarded the 2025 Sanders Prize in Epistemology by The Marc Sanders Foundation and Oxford Studies in Epistemology for his paper “Aestheticizing Epistemology.” Mathematics professor Ryan Hyndwas selected to give the 2026 Hrabowski-Gates-Tapia-McBay Lecture at this year’s Joint Mathematics Meetings; the Lecture is an annual award and a talk funding honorees from the Mathematical Association of America, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and American Mathematical Society.
Penn Carey Law students Jeff Berkowitz and Christopher Tarakji are the 2026 Edwin R. Keedy Cup winners, arguing for the petitioner in the competition’s case, Olivier v. City of Brandon. Tarakji was also named Best Oralist.
Two Penn engineers from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciencehave been elected to the National Academy of Engineering:Nader Engheta, H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering, and Karen Winey, Harold Pender Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and in materials science and engineering. And Sophia Tang, an undergraduate researcher in Penn Engineering, has been named a recipient of the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award, presented by the Computing Research Association.
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