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Three Penn Researchers Awarded Sloan Fellowships

Three Penn Researchers Awarded Sloan Fellowships

Three University of Pennsylvania faculty members are among this year’s Sloan Fellowship recipients. Since 1955, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has granted yearly fellowships to early-career scientists and scholars whose achievements and potential identify them the next generation of scientific leaders.

Evan Lerner

John Legend to Speak at Penn’s 258th Commencement

John Legend to Speak at Penn’s 258th Commencement

John Legend, a nine-time Grammy Award-winning soul artist, philanthropist and Penn alumnus will deliver the address at the University of Pennsylvania’s Commencement on Monday, May 19, Leslie Laird Kruhly, Vice President and University Secretary announced.

Jeanne Leong

A Penn Professor’s Year at the Pentagon Informs His Teaching

A Penn Professor’s Year at the Pentagon Informs His Teaching

Michael C. Horowitz, an associate professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, is back on campus after spending 2013 at the Department of Defense working as a government insider on national security issues that he had previously studied as an academic outsider.

Jacquie Posey

University of Pennsylvania Student Wins Gates Cambridge Scholarship

University of Pennsylvania Student Wins Gates Cambridge Scholarship

University of Pennsylvania senior Sonya Davey has been awarded a 2014 Gates Cambridge Scholarship to pursue a master’s degree in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

Jacquie Posey

Penn Geophysicist Teams With Mathematicians to Describe How River Rocks Round

Penn Geophysicist Teams With Mathematicians to Describe How River Rocks Round

For centuries, geologists have recognized that the rocks that line riverbeds tend to be smaller and rounder further downstream. But these experts have not agreed on the reason these patterns exist. Abrasion causes rocks to grind down and become rounder as they are transported down the river.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Expanding Horizons Through Arab Music at Penn

Expanding Horizons Through Arab Music at Penn

After hearing Arab music for the first time at a wedding a couple of years ago, University of Pennsylvania senior Idrees Syed was so enthralled with the sounds that he soon began taking drumming lessons in the Arab Music Ensemble percussion class at Penn.“The sounds were just mesmerizing,” Syed says.

Jeanne Leong

Penn Museum Explores 'Blurred Lines' of History

Penn Museum Explores 'Blurred Lines' of History

Steamy stories have been shared throughout history.As witnesses to history, many of the artifacts showcased in the permanent collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology are just waiting to have their romantic tales revealed.
Penn Student Harnesses Power of Micro-Finance to Empower Women

Penn Student Harnesses Power of Micro-Finance to Empower Women

University of Pennsylvania senior Meher Rehman is building on a mission she began while still in high school: working to empower women in developing parts of the world through micro-finance projects.