Ph.D. candidate Katherine Scahill poses in front of the Lerner Center.
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Mindfulness, monasticism, and women in Thai Buddhism
Ph.D. candidate Katherine Scahill’s research engages with three communities of female Buddhist monks (bhikkhunī) in Thailand and their chanting traditions.
Penn Global has announced the first recipients of the newly established Penn Global Dissertation Grants program, which provides up to $8,000 in funding to nearly a dozen Ph.D. students.
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New dissertation grants expand global research support
The newly established Penn Global Dissertation Grants program provides as much as $8,000 in funding to each of 11 Ph.D. candidates to enhance global components in their research.
The Delaware County courthouse is seen, Thursday Oct. 15, 2020, in Media, Pennsylvania.
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Public defender shortages
A new report by Paul Heaton, director of the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice, shows that nearly every county in Pennsylvania has a shortage of public defenders.
Cheryl Nnadi (left) and Taussia Boadi (right) created Positioned for Success, a 2023 winner of Projects for Progress.
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Positioned for Success
The program, launched by recent College of Arts and Sciences grads Taussia Boadi and Cheryl Nnadi, was a 2023 Projects for Progress winner and provides academic support to middle school students affected by gun violence.
The class poses in front of Palermo’s Teatro Massimo, the third-largest opera house in Europe.
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Penn Global Seminar offers a look at Italy’s Palermo in Empires, Migrations, and Mafia
As part of the spring course Domenic Vitiello of the Weitzman School of Design and School of Arts & Sciences led students on a trip exploring Sicily’s capital and its eras of colonization, imperial rule, Mafia, and migration.
(Left to right) Rudie Altamirano, executive director of International Student and Scholar Services, Penn Global Student Citizenship Award winners David Kato and Aishwarya Pawar, and Associate Vice Provost for Global Initiatives Amy Gadsden at the awards ceremony at Perry World House.
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Two international students honored with the 2024 Penn Global Student Citizenship Award
Aishwarya Pawar, a Ph.D. student at the Perelman School of Medicine, is the graduate student winner, and David Kato, a fourth-year political science major in the School of Arts & Sciences, is the undergraduate winner.
Zach Koung is a third-year political science major who graduates later this month.
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Seeking answers on civil discourse, finding a community
In his quest to tackle dialogue across differences, political science major Zach Koung has taken more SNF Paideia-affiliated courses than any student in the program.
History Ph.D. candidate Arielle Xena Alterwaite (left) and Music Ph.D. student Katherine Scahill (right) have been awarded the 2024 Newcombe Fellowship.
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Two Penn Ph.D. candidates awarded 2024 Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
The School of Arts & Sciences awardees are Arielle Xena Alterwaite, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in history, and Katherine Scahill, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in music.
Fourth-year Amanda Yagerman is double majoring in history and English, while at the same time preparing to be a naval officer in the NROTC program.
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Laying the groundwork at Penn before taking to the air
Amanda Yagerman, a fourth-year student is majoring in history and English in the College of Arts and Sciences while training to be a naval officer in the Naval ROTC program. She says her experience at Penn has been “the best of both worlds.”
