Penn named top producer of 2024-25 Fulbright Scholars
With 15 students and alumni offered an award, the Department of State’s flagship international education exchange program recognized Penn as a ‘top producing institution’ in the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
The Department of State has recognized the University of Pennsylvania as a Fulbright U.S. Student Program “Top Producing Institution,” one of the colleges and universities with the highest number of awardees, for the 2024-25 academic year. Last year 15 Penn students and alumni were offered Fulbright grants to 13 countries.
The Fulbright Program, founded in 1946, is the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program, awarding grants to fund as long as 12 months of international experience. The U.S. Student Fulbright offers graduating fourth-year students, graduate students, and recent alumni from all backgrounds the opportunity to pursue graduate study, conduct research, or teach English.
“The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is an exceptional opportunity for educational exchange between the U.S. and other countries, which aims to foster mutual understanding,” Morris says.
Most 2024-25 Penn-affiliated recipients applied for the Fulbright with support from CURF. Penn students and alumni who are offered Fulbright awards for the 2025-26 academic year will be announced in Penn Today in May.
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.
