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Thinking soccer with Sizzy Lawton
Thinking soccer with Sizzy Lawton
The fourth-year forward discusses playing the beautiful game, how to develop a soccer IQ, the importance of knowing your teammates, changing coaches, and her plans for the future.
Who, What, Why: Penn Medicine associate director Danielle Cavalcanto
Who, What, Why: Penn Medicine associate director Danielle Cavalcanto
Cavalcanto has recently been recognized for her contributions that significantly advance the development of sustainable purchasing at Penn.
Two Penn fourth-years awarded 2023 Churchill Scholarships
Two Penn fourth-years awarded 2023 Churchill Scholarships
College of Arts and Sciences fourth-years Ryan Jeong and Arnav Lal are among 16 students selected nationwide to receive a Churchill Scholarship for a year of graduate research study at the University of Cambridge in England.
Double trouble: Dingle, Padilla pick up weekly awards
Double trouble: Dingle, Padilla pick up weekly awards
Jordan Dingle of the men’s basketball team has been named Ivy League and Big 5 Player of the Week and Kayla Padilla of the women’s basketball team has been selected Ivy League Player of the Week.
The Y-Prize: Elevating collaboration and innovation in competition
The Y-Prize: Elevating collaboration and innovation in competition
Y-Prize is a competition that sees Penn students working together across schools and disciplines, and directly applying what they’ve learned in classes and real life.
Big 5 big-ups Padilla with Player of the Week award
Big 5 big-ups Padilla with Player of the Week award
The fourth-year guard averaged 21 points, 4.3 rebounds, and 4.0 assists in Penn’s wins over Bucknell, St. Francis Brooklyn, and Temple.
Dingle three-peats as Ivy League Player of the Week
Dingle three-peats as Ivy League Player of the Week
The third-year guard averaged 27.5 points, 6.5 rebounds, 5.0 assists, and 2.5 steals in Penn’s Big 5 contests against Villanova and Temple.
Two from Penn named Distinguished Members of the Association for Computing Machinery
Two from Penn named Distinguished Members of the Association for Computing Machinery
Jing (Jane) Li of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Li Shen of the Perelman School of Medicine have been named distinguished members of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Penn senior and four alumni have received Schwarzman Scholarships
Penn senior and four alumni have received Schwarzman Scholarships
The Scholarships fund a one-year master’s degree in global affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Sawyer, Dingle capture weekly conference awards
Sawyer, Dingle capture weekly conference awards
Sawyer, of the women’s basketball team, has been selected Ivy League Rookie of the Week, and Dingle, of the men’s basketball team, earned Player of the Week honors for the second week in a row.
In the News
Chicago Sun-Times
UChicago students, Barrington native among 2024 Rhodes Scholars heading to University of Oxford
College of Arts and Sciences fourth-year Om Gandhi from Barrington, Illinois, has been awarded a 2025 Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Penn student awarded Rhodes Scholarship to continue cancer research at Oxford University
College of Arts and Sciences fourth-year Om Gandhi from Barrington, Illinois, has been awarded a 2025 Rhodes Scholarship to continue his cancer research at Oxford University.
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PhillyVoice
Three Philadelphia nurses recognized in this year's Celebrate Caring campaign
Jasmine Hudson and Francis Doran of Penn Medicine are winners of Independence Blue Cross’s Celebrate Caring campaign, which honors extraordinary nurses in the Philadelphia region.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia’s Tyshawn Sorey wins Pulitzer Prize in music
Tyshawn Sorey of the School of Arts & Sciences has won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in music for “Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith),” a concerto for saxophone and orchestra.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
He started college in prison. Now, he is Rutgers-Camden’s first Truman scholar
Tej Patel, a third-year in the Wharton School and College of Arts and Sciences from Billeria, Massachusetts, was one of 60 college students nationwide chosen to be a Truman Scholar.
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WHYY (Philadelphia)
Storyshares seeks to raise reading levels of forgotten tweens, teens and adults
John Gamba of the Graduate School of Education served as the Storyshares literary hub’s strategy and research mentor at the 2023 Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition.
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