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Awards and accolades for Penn faculty
The Ben on the Bench statue covered in snow.

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Awards and accolades for Penn faculty

A roundup of the latest appointments and awards for various faculty members in the School of Arts & Sciences, Penn Carey Law, Annenberg School for Communication, and the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Penn Today Staff

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Connecting health care policy to people’s lives 

Connecting health care policy to people’s lives 

Allison Hoffman studies Medicare and long-term care and helps policymakers understand the impact that health insurance regulations can have on people’s lives.

Dorothy Roberts’ memoir on interracial families in America
Dorothy Roberts and the cover of her new book “The Mixed Marriage Project”

Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Africana Studies, Law, and Sociology & Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights.

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Dorothy Roberts’ memoir on interracial families in America

Roberts’ new memoir, “The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family” is an exploration of race, identity, and family in America.

From Penn Carey Law

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How interdisciplinary teaching becomes climate action

How interdisciplinary teaching becomes climate action

Penn graduate students are learning that net zero is a systems challenge requiring fluency across disciplines, and why interdisciplinary teaching is climate action—including how it builds the human capital the clean energy transition demands.

From Kleinman Center for Energy Policy

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Using law to support innovation

Using law to support innovation

From protecting artists to supporting emerging technologies, second- and third-year students working in Penn Carey Law’s Detkin Intellectual Property and Technology Legal Clinic provide free legal work to individuals and nonprofit and for-profit ventures in science, technology, business, and the arts.

From Penn Carey Law

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Awards and accolades for Penn faculty
College Hall seen through the archway of Fischer Fine Arts.

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Awards and accolades for Penn faculty

A roundup of appointments and awards for various members of Penn’s faculty across several schools.

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20 breakthroughs of 2025
Masoud Akbarzadeh holding up one of the fabricated materials.

The Polyhedral Structures Laboratory is housed at the Pennovation Center and brings together designers, engineers, and computer scientists to reimagine the built world. Using graphic statics, a method where forces are mapped as lines, they design forms that balance compression and tension. These result in structures that use far fewer materials while remaining strong and efficient.

(Image: Eric Sucar)

20 breakthroughs of 2025

From ancient tombs and tiny robots to personalized gene editing and AI weather models, Penn’s 2025 research portfolio showed how curiosity—paired with collaboration—moves knowledge into impact and stretches across disciplines and continents.

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Using data to drive criminal justice reform
Tricia Rojo Bushnell direct to camera.

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Using data to drive criminal justice reform

Tricia Rojo Bushnell leads an interdisciplinary, data-driven research and policy hub focused on improving the criminal justice system.

Fostering a culture of service

Fostering a culture of service

The Toll Public Interest Center stewards Penn Carey Law’s pro bono legacy and houses many of the School’s foundational public interest programs and scholarships.

Two Penn students chosen as 2026 Marshall Scholars
Adelaide Lyall, left, Norah Rami, right

From left, Adelaide Lyall and Norah Rami are Penn's 2026 Marshall Scholars.

(Images: Courtesy of Adelaide Lyall and Norah Rami)

Two Penn students chosen as 2026 Marshall Scholars

Adelaide Lyall, a graduate student in the School of Social Policy & Practice, and Norah Rami, a fourth-year in the College of Arts & Sciences, will receive funding for as much as three years of graduate study in the United Kingdom.

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