U.S. Sen. John S. McCain, whose recent race for the Republican presidential nomination inspired admiration across party lines, but not enough votes, will deliver the Commencement address at the 245th Commencement ceremony May 21.
McCain, 64, has brought campaign finance reform to the top of the legislative agenda with the McCain-Feingold bill. He gained a reputation as a war hero after spending more than five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam’s infamous “Hanoi Hilton.”
Other honorary degree recipients are Nobel Laureate Peter C. Doherty, an immunologist with research vital in avoiding organ transplant rejection; Andrés M. Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, architects who have changed how cities are redeveloped; Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist whose work in decision-making has influenced fields from economics to the social sciences; and Ruth J. Simmons, the newly-named first woman president of Brown University and the first African American to head an Ivy League university, for her efforts to attract a diverse group of students to higher education.
Nanoparticle blueprints reveal path to smarter medicines
New research involving Penn Engineering shows detailed variation in lipid nanoparticle size, shape, and internal structure, and finds that such factors correlate with how well they deliver therapeutic cargo to a particular destination.
A generous gift from alumni Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman brings the work of internationally acclaimed artist Jaume Plensa to the University of Pennsylvania. The latest addition to the Penn Art Collection expands Philadelphia's public art.
A massive chunk of ice, a new laser, and new information on sea-level rise
For nearly a decade, Leigh Stearns and collaborators aimed a laser scanner system at Greenland’s Helheim Glacier. Their long-running survey reveals that Helheim’s massive calving events don’t behave the way scientists once thought, reframing how ice loss contributes to sea-level rise.
