The recipients of the 2026 President’s Engagement and Innovation Prizes: (Top left) Connie Ni, Darlene Leohansson, and Chloe Chang. (Top right) Justin Wang, Janine Haros, and Eric Lee. (Bottom left) Margaret Zhu; (bottom right) Nhlanhla Mavuso.
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Class of 2026 President’s Engagement and Innovation Prize winners announced
Four prize-winning teams will design and implement post-graduation projects that make a positive, lasting difference here in Philadelphia and beyond.
Medical student Bayan Galal is a recipient of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans.
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Penn Medicine student awarded a 2026 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
Medical student Bayan Galal has received the scholarship, which provides graduate school funding for immigrants and children of immigrants to the United States.
A student holding a composition sheet filled with music notes while practicing their group performance.
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The performing arts at Penn: process, practice, and purpose
In the vivid tapestry of performing arts groups at Penn, students prepare for their performances while simultaneously enriching their college experience.
Caitlyn Chen’s path to becoming a physician-scientist
The fourth-year in the College of Arts & Sciences, who will pursue medical school after graduation, spent her time at Penn applying deep knowledge of the natural sciences to research more affordable microsensors for medical devices.
Linguist Marlyse Baptista, neuroscientist Nacho Sanguinetti, and humanities scholar Fritz Breithaupt were all hired through MindCORE under the theme of “interconnected minds,” focusing on how individual minds influence group behavior and vice versa.
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New faculty explore how individual minds influence group behavior
Linguist Marlyse Baptista, neuroscientist Nacho Sanguinetti, and humanities scholar Fritz Breithaupt are part of MindCORE’s Interconnected Minds cluster hire.
Sarah Pierce is the Denise A. Rotko Associate Dean for Legal Practice Skills at Penn Carey Law.
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Three questions to guide thoughtful, human-centered AI use in the classroom
Ahead of an AI Month panel showcasing AI use in the classroom at Penn, Catherine Turner of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation poses three questions instructors can consider while planning AI-informed assignments and activities.
Ani Liu is the Carrafiell Assistant Professor (Emerging Design) at the Weitzman School.
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Ani Liu: Motherhood, microplastics, and her multimedia works on display
Weitzman professor of fine arts Ani Liu explores the physiological and emotional transformations in motherhood through her multimedia artworks while teaching students how to conduct fine arts research.
At the DumoLab, research associate Yasaman Amirzehni is working to develop a biocomposite suitable for indoor and outdoor cladding applications, which could eventually serve as true structural components like load-bearing columns.
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Turning peels into pavers: How Penn designers turn food scraps into biodegradable building materials
The Weitzman School’s Laia Mogas-Soldevila and Yasaman Amirzehni transform unavoidable food waste—like fruit peels and eggshells, which account for 14.8% of post-consumer restaurant food waste—into durable, biodegradable building materials in collaboration with Penn Dining.
