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Penn Senior Adebisi Ogunrinde Wins Rhodes Scholarship

Adebisi (Debi) Ogunrinde, a University of Pennsylvania senior from Halifax, Nova Scotia, has won a Rhodes Scholarship. She is one of 11 recipients from Canada. Ogunrinde will pursue a masters in social anthropology and a masters in public policy at the University of Oxford.

Two University of Pennsylvania Seniors Win Rhodes Scholarships

Two University of Pennsylvania seniors have been awarded Rhodes Scholarships for two to three years of graduate study at Oxford University.

Penn Senior Jennifer Hebert Wins Rhodes Scholarship

University of Pennsylvania senior Jennifer (Jenna) Hebert from Pittsburgh, Pa., has won the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. She plans to pursue a master’s degree in psychiatry at the University of Oxford in England.

Penn Chemists Put a New Twist on Chirality

Biological molecules are chiral. Like gloves, they have either left- or right-handed versions that can’t be superimposed on one another. Macromolecules like DNA are also chiral and are exclusively made of building blocks with the same handedness.

Penn Helps Secure World Heritage City Designation for Philadelphia

The Organization of World Heritage Cities has voted to name Philadelphia as a World Heritage City. With the announcement, Philadelphia became the first American city to join an elite group that includes Paris, Cairo and Jerusalem.

Penn Sociologists Dig Deep Into the Needs of South Philly’s Latino Immigrants

Emilio A. Parrado is concerned about how immigrants incorporate into new communities.

Penn Lightbulb Café Presents ‘A Medieval Buddhist Treatise on Love and Sex’

WHO: Daud Ali Associate Professor Department of South Asia Studies

Ancient Mass Extinction Led to Dominance of Tiny Fish, Penn Paleontologist Shows

When times are good, it pays to be the big fish in the sea; in the aftermath of disaster, however, smaller is better.

Penn Team Shares in 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration, which includes physicists from the University of Pennsylvania, shared the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

Nano/Bio Interface Center Recognizes Student Achievements at Penn’s NanoDay 2015

By Niharika Gupta

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