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Class of 2019 includes 14 Fulbright awardees
Photos of 14 students.

The Class of 2019 includes 14 students who have accepted a Fulbright Awards for the 2019-2020 academic year. Top row, left to right: Fjora Arapi, Carinthia Bank, Julia Bell, Dillon Bergin, Wilson Fisher. Middle row, left to right: Savi Joshi, John McGahay, Tiberiu Mihaila, Candace Morff, Shiv Nadkarni. Bottom row, left to right: Hughes Ransom, Mark Rinder, Caroline Scown, Nicholas Wehbeh. 

Class of 2019 includes 14 Fulbright awardees

The University of Pennsylvania Class of 2019 includes 14 students who have accepted a Fulbright Award.
Inaugural Provost’s Graduate Academic Engagement Fellowships awarded
Michael Vazquez and Paul Wolff Mitchell.

Michael Vazquez (left) and Paul Wolff Mitchell. (Photo: Netter Center for Community Partnerships)

Inaugural Provost’s Graduate Academic Engagement Fellowships awarded

Michael Vazquez, a philosophy Ph.D. student, and Paul Wolff Mitchell, an anthropology Ph.D. student, are the first recipients of the award for 2019-2021.

Penn Today Staff

A sense of place on shifting shores
A colorful artist's rendering of a river with people fishing with a barge in the background and a drawing of an old map on the horizon

In works like “Memorial Day on the Delaware,” artist Roderick Coover blends natural, industrial, and historical imagery to convey a sense of place and experience. (Image: ©Roderick Coover)

A sense of place on shifting shores

Roderick Coover, whose work merges cinema, science, and history, is the 2019 Mellon Artist-in-Residence for the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities (PPEH). His recent film “Toxi-City: A Climate Change Narrative” screened at PPEH’s “Teaching and Learning with Rising Waters” event.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Training physician-scholars to see patients as people, not categories
Two people walking on a brick path, talking, in a courtyard surrounding by green bushes and a tree.

The anthropology M.D.-Ph.D. program, run by Adriana Petryna (left) of the Anthropology Department, in concert with Lawrence Brass of the Perelman School of Medicine, combines clinical and ethnographic training with an eye toward preparing students like Utpal Sandesara (right) to tackle health inequalities. Sandesara, who will graduate this month, is one of nine students in the 10-year-old program.

Training physician-scholars to see patients as people, not categories

The anthropology M.D.-Ph.D. program, recently graduating its first two students, combines clinical and ethnographic skills aimed at working with and caring for society’s marginalized.

Michele W. Berger

Putting mussels to the test
A student crouches in front of several aquariums full of water and collects a sample, surrounded by a park setting.

Senior Ahsen Kayani checks on the tanks, set up alongside the BioPond.

Putting mussels to the test

With a mussel hatchery in the future for the Schuylkill River, students in Byron Sherwood’s field biology course used scientific rigor to ask how effectively these filter feeders might render the water clean.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Studying novels with novelist Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan stands in front of classroom holding papers in hand.

Novelist and Penn alum Jennifer Egan taught a literature course on modern fiction this semester as an artist-in-residence. 

Studying novels with novelist Jennifer Egan

Pulitzer-Prize winning author Jennifer Egan returns to her alma mater to teach a course on English literature.
Musical merger of academics and performance
Student playing the cello in front of class and professors and another student playing the piano.

Music 236 combines professional performance instruction with academic study of music history and analysis. Tom Kraines (standing), a cellist and artist-in-residence with the Daedalus Quartet and pianist Yu Xi Wang (seated center), of the Curtis Institute of Music work with Penn sophomore Justin Blum on the cello and freshman Jasmine Chen on the piano. 

Musical merger of academics and performance

Music 236 emerges students in focused study on one classical composer through academics and musical performance with the Daedalus Quartet.
A course that showcases the prevalence, and power, of math
a person sitting on a stack of open magazines and newspapers working on a laptop

A course that showcases the prevalence, and power, of math

The Mathematics in the Media course helps students understand how to use fundamental mathematical approaches to solve real-world problems in a data-driven world.

Erica K. Brockmeier