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Two Penn students chosen as 2026 Marshall Scholars
Adelaide Lyall, left, Norah Rami, right

From left, Adelaide Lyall and Norah Rami are Penn's 2026 Marshall Scholars.

(Images: Courtesy of Adelaide Lyall and Norah Rami)

Two Penn students chosen as 2026 Marshall Scholars

Adelaide Lyall, a graduate student in the School of Social Policy & Practice, and Norah Rami, a fourth-year in the College of Arts & Sciences, will receive funding for as much as three years of graduate study in the United Kingdom.
Two 2025 project grants and a fellowship from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
A sculpture of a crocodile eatings its tail made in filament and resin.

“White Ouroboros II” by Allison Janae Hamilton. The Institute for Contemporary Art will feature the first museum survey of the artist in the spring of 2027.

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Two 2025 project grants and a fellowship from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

WXPN and the Institute for Contemporary Art each received creative project grants and filmmaker Sosena Solomon, who teaches in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, was named a 2025 Pew Fellow.

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Penn Team honored with Charles E. Peterson Prize for work on Nakashima House

Penn Team honored with Charles E. Peterson Prize for work on Nakashima House

A recent study of the Nakashima home by students in the Department of Historic Preservation at the Weitzman School have earned the Charles E. Peterson Prize from the National Park Service Heritage Documentation Programs, the Philadelphia Atheneum, American Institute of Architects, and the Association for Preservation Technology International.

2025 McGraw Prize in Education winners honored
(from left) Cathy N. Davidson, Joe Wolf, and Frederic Bertley

McGraw Prize winners (from left) Cathy N. Davidson, Joe Wolf, and Frederic Bertley.

(Image: Steve Belkowitz)

2025 McGraw Prize in Education winners honored

Four honorees were awarded with Penn GSE’s McGraw Prizes in Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Pre-K–12 Education in a ceremony in New York City this month.

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Two Penn athletes earn Player of the Week accolades

Two Penn athletes earn Player of the Week accolades

Fourth-year men’s basketball guard Ethan Roberts was named Player of the Week by both the Ivy League and the Philadelphia Big 5, and fourth-year men’s football punter Santiago Sturla was named Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Week.

Penn Nursing announces Conway Scholars for 2025-26

Penn Nursing announces Conway Scholars for 2025-26

This is the third cohort of Conway Scholars, funded with a grant from Bedford Falls Foundation, and awarded to 80 high-merit students with financial need.

Laura Perna named one of the inaugural ASHE Fellows

Laura Perna named one of the inaugural ASHE Fellows

The vice provost for faculty and the Graduate School for Education Centennial Presidential Professor of Education joins 24 scholars from across the country in the first class of fellows of the Association for the Study of Higher Education.

Inaugural award for Derek M. Griffith

Inaugural award for Derek M. Griffith

The Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Population Health and Health Equity University Professor in Penn Nursing and Penn Medicine and director of the Program for Men’s Health Equity has been named the first-ever recipient of the Jimmy Boyd Memorial Award for Leadership in Men’s and Boys’ Health by the American Public Health Association Men’s Health Caucus.