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.
Novel plant-based approach to a better, cheaper GLP-1 delivery system
Research led by Penn Dental’s Henry Daniell investigates the use of a lettuce-based, plant-encapsulated delivery platform as a new oral delivery of two GLP-1 drugs previously approved by the FDA in injectable form.
No brain, no gain: Neuronal activity enhances benefits of exercise
Research led by Penn neuroscientist J. Nicholas Betley and collaborators finds that hypothalamic neurons are essential for translating physical exertion into endurance, potentially opening the door to exercise-mimicking therapies.
In honor of Valentine's Day, and as a way of fostering community in her Shakespeare in Love course, Becky Friedman took her students to the University Club for lunch one class period. They talked about the movie "Shakespeare in Love," as part of a broader conversation on how Shakespeare's works are adapted.
In Becky Friedman’s English course Shakespeare in Love, undergraduate students analyze language, genre, and adaptation in the Bard’s plays through the lens of love.
Beating the heat: Designing cooling for bodies in motion
Dorit Aviv, director of Weitzman’s Thermal Architecture Lab, studies how humans, technology, and design intersect, paving the way for the development of novel approaches to cooling people efficiently.
