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2024 Booklaunch award for Nancy Steinhardt

Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt's book, “Yuan: Chinese Architecture in a Mongol Empire,” has won the Booklaunch award for Best Architectural History Book of 2024. Shatzman Steinhart is a professor of East Asian art at the School of Arts & Sciences. Her book is the first comprehensive English-language study of Chinese architecture during the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.

Penn Dental’s Flavia Teles receives IADR Periodontal Research Group Award

Teles, a professor in the Department of Basic & Translational Sciences at Penn Dental Medicine and a core member of the Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry, has been recognized for her research as the 2025 recipient of 2025 IADR/IAP Ricardo Teles Clinical Research Award. Her research focuses on the oral microbiome, particularly the discovery and characterization of previously uncultivated periodontal pathogens; her lab aims to identify hidden members of oral biofilms.

WXPN’s World Cafe earns two honors at New York Festivals Radio Awards

A Bronze Radio Award in the News Report/Features category was awarded for “Abdullah Ibrahim Hears the World in Many ‘Different Colors,’” a feature produced and presented by World Cafe contributing host, Stephen Kallao. And World Cafe host Raina Douris was awarded a Finalist Diploma in the Craft/Interview category for her thoughtful and emotionally rich interview with Nick Cave, timed with the release of his album “Wild God.”

George Pappas receives IEEE Kirchmayer Award

Pappas, UPS Foundation Professor of Transportation in Electrical and Systems Engineering at Penn Engineering, has been awarded the Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award for “inspirational mentoring” of graduate students.

TREO Foundation Award for Penn Nursing’s Colleen Tewksbury

Tewksbury, an assistant professor in nutrition science in the Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences, has been awarded the 2025 TREO Foundation LEAD Award for Excellence in Nutrition.

Penn students and alumni awarded Fulbright 2025-26 U.S. Student Program grants

As of early July, 19 Penn students and alumni have been offered Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants for the 2025-26 academic year. They will conduct research, pursue graduate degrees, or teach English in more than a dozen countries.

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FactCheck.org wins National Headliner Award for reporting on immigration claims

FactCheck.org, a project of Penn’s Annenberg Public Policy Center, has won a 2025 National Headliner Award for online beat reporting of government and political coverage. Three FactCheck.org articles published in 2024 that fact-checked then presidential candidate Donald Trump on immigration issues won the first-place award in that category.

Weitzman faculty earn ASLA Honors

Weitzman School of Design dean and Paley Professor Fritz Steiner, and associate professor of landscape architecture Christopher Marcinkoski are among the individuals and firms selected by the board of trustees of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) for its 2025 Honors, the highest recognition ASLA bestows each year.

Victor Pickard awarded the C. Edwin Baker Award from the International Communication Association

Pickard, co-director of the Media, Inequality & Change Center at the Annenberg School for Communication has been awarded for significant contributions to the development, reach, and influence of scholarship on media, markets, and democracy.

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