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Penn fourth-year and three recent alumni named 2025 Knight-Hennessy Scholars
Aravind Krishnan; Carson Eckhard; Meera Menon, and Jun Hou Shin.

Four Penn affiliates each have been awarded a 2025 Knight-Hennessy Scholarship (clockwise from top left): fourth-year Aravind Krishnan; 2021 graduate Carson Eckhard; and 2020 graduates Meera Menon and Jun Hou Shin.

(Images: Courtesy of Knight-Hennessy Scholars / Carolyn Fong Photography)

Penn fourth-year and three recent alumni named 2025 Knight-Hennessy Scholars

Four Penn affiliates each have been awarded a 2025 Knight-Hennessy Scholarship, receiving financial support for as long as three years to pursue a graduate degree and global leadership training at Stanford University.

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Penn fourth-year and recent alum named 2025 Hertz Fellows

Penn fourth-year Eric Tao (left) and Class of 2023 graduate Suraj Chandran each have been awarded a 2025 Hertz Fellowship in applied science, engineering, and mathematics.

(Images: Courtesy of the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships)

Penn fourth-year and recent alum named 2025 Hertz Fellows

Fourth-year Eric Tao and Class of 2023 graduate Suraj Chandran, both of the School of Arts & Sciences, have each been awarded a 2025 Hertz Fellowship in applied science, engineering, and mathematics by the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation.

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Preservation Awards recognize Weitzman faculty and alum work across Philadelphia region

Preservation Awards recognize Weitzman faculty and alum work across Philadelphia region

Several Weitzman faculty and alums are recipients of the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia’s annual Achievement Awards, including a team from the Department of Historic Preservation’s Center for Architectural Conservation that was recognized with a Grand Jury Award for its comprehensive documentation work of the George Nakashima Family House, and Molly Lester, a lecturer in historic preservation and associate director of the Urban Heritage Project, earned the Young Friends of the Preservation Alliance Award for her monograph “Building Ghosts: Past Lives and Lost Plac

Penn alum Hoang C. Le awarded a 2025 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans

Penn alum Hoang C. Le awarded a 2025 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans

Le, a Class of 2023 graduate, has been awarded a Fellowship to the merit-based program that provides graduate school funding for immigrants and children of immigrants to the United States. Le’s research explores the evolution of viral-host interactions to uncover novel molecular tools and therapeutic targets.

Wharton’s Dinan Hall restoration celebrated
J. Larry Jameson, Erika H. James and Jamie Dinan stand in front of Dinan Hall.

President J. Larry Jameson, Wharton School Dean Erika H. James, and Trustee Jamie Dinan at the Dinan Hall dedication ceremony.

(IMAGE: SHIRA YUDKOFF)

Wharton’s Dinan Hall restoration celebrated

A gift from Trustee, Wharton Board of Advisors member, and alumnus Jamie Dinan led to renovation of former Vance Hall.

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Fran McCaffery named new men’s basketball coach
Coach Fran McAffery on a basketball court.

Image: Courtesy of the University of Pennsylvania men’s basketball team

Fran McCaffery named new men’s basketball coach

The announcement marks a return to University City for McCaffery, who played three seasons for the Quakers and is a 1982 alumnus of the Wharton School.

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Actor, director, producer, Penn alumna Elizabeth Banks to speak at 269th Commencement
Elizabeth Banks.

Class of 1996 alumna Elizabeth Banks will address the Class of 2025 at Penn’s 269th Commencement on May 19.

(Image: Robert Ascroft)

Actor, director, producer, Penn alumna Elizabeth Banks to speak at 269th Commencement

At the Commencement ceremony on Monday, May 19, Banks will receive an honorary degree, along with the other 2025 Penn honorary degree recipients.

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