The President & Provost’s Honor for Developing New Initiatives in Graduate & Professional Student Life and the Dr. Andy Binns Impact Award for Outstanding Service to Graduate and Professional Student Life have been awarded to 13 graduating students.
This year, 13 graduating students are being recognized for their service and lasting contributions to graduate student life at Penn, and will be celebrated at a May 12 event at the Graduate Student Center.
The recipients of the 2022-23 Graduate Student Leadership Awards for 2022-23 are: Dawn Adrian (MSEd in education); Kelly Diaz (Ph.D. in communication), Elizabeth Dunens (Ph.D. in education); Rina Kim (Ph.D. in immunology, BGS in medicine); Alison Knasin (Ph.D. in chemistry); Jorge (Jay) Ortiz-Carpena (Ph.D. in immunology, BGS in medicine); Hoang Anh Phan (Ph.D. in chemistry); Christine Quattro (Ph.D. in city and regional planning), Deepa Ramadurai (MSHP in medicine); Shreyas Ramesh (MSE in engineering); Keshara Senanayake (JD in law); Aalok Thakkar (Ph.D. in computer and information science); and Blake Tobias, Jr. (MHCI in medicine).
The President & Provost’s Honor for Developing New Initiatives in Graduate & Professional Student Life is presented to students who have initiated lasting new developments that have enhanced graduate and professional student life at Penn. The Dr. Andy Binns Impact Award for Outstanding Service to Graduate and Professional Student Life is presented to graduate or professional students, upon their graduation from Penn, who have significantly impacted graduate and professional student life through service involvement in student life initiatives or organizations.
Griffin Pitt, right, works with two other student researchers to test the conductivity, total dissolved solids, salinity, and temperature of water below a sand dam in Kenya.
Griffin Pitt’s upbringing made her passionate about water access and pollution, and Penn has given her the opportunity to explore these issues back home in North Carolina and abroad.
Helping robots work together to explore the Moon and Mars
Penn Engineers, NASA, and five other universities tested robotic systems designed to help unmanned explorers cooperate in the dunes of White Sands, New Mexico, paving the way for Moon and Mars exploration.
From framework to actions: Provost John L. Jackson Jr. talks Penn Forward
In a Q&A, Provost John L. Jackson Jr. explains the relationship between the strategic framework In Principle and Practice and Penn Forward—a new University-wide process and action plan that will advance Penn forward for the next decade and beyond.
