Sarah B. Zimbler (C'00) has won a prestigious Truman Scholarship, awarded to students committed to a career in public service and who were deemed likely to make a difference. Zimbler, a team leader in the West Philadelphia Tutoring Project, will receive up to $30,000 - $3,000 for senior year and $27,000 for two or three years of graduate study.
Beinecke winner
George H. (Chip) Blaustein Jr. (C'00) is one of 20 juniors nationally to receive a Beinecke Brothers Scholarship to enable highly motivated students to make courageous choices in graduate study. Each scholar receives $2,000 upon completion of undergraduate studies and a stipend of $15,000 for each of two years of graduate study. Blaustein, a double major in English and honors history, is a Ben Franklin Scholar (BFS).
Five Mellons
The only national humanities graduate award, the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships for students beginning doctoral work next fall, went to five students from Penn. The one-year fellowship includes payment of all tuition and fees and a $14,500 stipend. The winners are:
Shana Fernhoff Cohen (C'97), history of philosophy and science;
Zubin Khambatta (C'96), political philosophy, BFS;
Nathalie M. Peutz (C'94), cultural anthropology;
Salamishah Tillet (C'96), American studies; and
Dina Westenholz (C'99), English, BFS. Westenholz also received a Fulbright, which she turned down to accept the Mellon.
John Parker (G'99) was awarded a Federal Chancellor Fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation to encourage ties between Germans and Americans. Parker will use his year in Germany to research the influence of Lutheran theology on Marxist philosophy and Marxist literature theory as well as to schmooze with the natives.
Adrian C. Shieh (EAS'00) was awarded a Goldwater Scholarship , awarded on the basis of academic merit. Shieh, a BFS, will receive up to $7,500 to cover the cost of tuition, fees, books, and room and board, next year.
Materials in the Annenberg School for Communication Library Archives include thousands of TV scripts, the first issue of TV Guide, and interviews about the early days of HBO—which help to chronicle TV’s 100-year story.
Centering joy in AI development and implementation
PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton—of Annenberg and SP2—and collaborators introduce a joy-informed framework designed to initiate conversations among engineers, designers, and researchers.
Winter Storm Fern brought icy and snowy conditions to the Northeast and other parts of the country over the weekend. Penn Today asks physicist Robert Carpick about the unique properties of ice, the science of curling, and how close we are to ‘nonslip’ ice.
Organizations like Penn’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships foster collaborations between Penn and public schools in the West Philadelphia community.
Penn receives national distinction for community engagement
The recognition by the American Council on Education and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching acknowledges Penn’s long-standing commitment to community-engaged scholarship and partnerships in West Philadelphia and beyond.
