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Moore earns second straight Ivy Rookie of the Week award
Emery Moore prepares to hit the ball during a game at the Palestra.

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Moore earns second straight Ivy Rookie of the Week award

The first-year setter had 86 assists and had a .455 hitting percentage over the weekend. Penn went 1-1 and beat Princeton for the first time since 2015.

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Trailblazers in education honored with the 2024 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education
Edmund W. Gordon, Jody Lewen, and Robert Lerman.

Edmund W. Gordon, Jody Lewen, and Robert Lerman have been selected for outstanding achievement in pre-K–12, lifelong learning, and higher education.

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Trailblazers in education honored with the 2024 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education

Edmund W. Gordon, Robert Lerman, and Jody Lewen have been selected for outstanding achievement in pre-K–12, lifelong learning, and higher education.

From Penn GSE , Kat Stein

Katalin Karikó, Nobel Laureate and pioneering mRNA researcher, named to Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania
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Katalin Karikó is a senior vice president at BioNTech and an adjunct professor of neurosurgery in the Perelman School of Medicine. (Image: Peggy Peterson/Courtesy of Penn Medicine)

Katalin Karikó, Nobel Laureate and pioneering mRNA researcher, named to Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania

Karikó was honored by Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro at a special ceremony in Harrisburg.

Alex Gardner

Announcing the Draw Down the Lightning Grants
Penn students walking on Locust Walk in the fall.

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Announcing the Draw Down the Lightning Grants

A new initiative that advances In Principle and Practice, the Draw Down the Lightning grants encourage collaborative endeavors in support of the strategic framework’s four principles and five practices.
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will investigate the history of galaxies
artist's concept of the Andromeda galaxy's stellar halo, depicted with exaggerated brightness and density, highlighting the extent of this faint and loosely connected collection of stars that surrounds the galaxy.

Robyn Sanderson and Adrien Thob of the School of Arts & Sciences are part of a team of astronomers using NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to uncover the “fossil record” of the universe as they look to clues to unearth key insights into its formation.

(Image: Courtesy of NASA, Ralf Crawford (STScI))

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will investigate the history of galaxies

Robyn Sanderson and collaborators are unearthing the history of the universe’s formation by looking for clues that reveal its “galactic fossil record.”
Penn alum named 2024 Yenching Scholar
Jing-Jing Piriyalertsak standing outside a building with trees

Chonnipha (Jing Jing) Piriyalertsak, a 2023 graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences from Bangkok, has been selected as a 2024 Yenching Scholar.

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Penn alum named 2024 Yenching Scholar

Chonnipha (Jing Jing) Piriyalertsak, a 2023 graduate, has been selected as a 2024 Yenching Scholar, with full funding to pursue an interdisciplinary master’s degree in China studies at the Yenching Academy of Peking University in Beijing.

Louisa Shepard

Penn Engineering’s Ottman Tertuliano receives a 2024 CAREER Award
Ottman Tertuliano.

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Penn Engineering’s Ottman Tertuliano receives a 2024 CAREER Award

Tertuliano’s research on bone fractures at the nanoscale allows for research on two separate time scales: the forming of cracks in a fracture at 1 micrometer/second, and the cellular response and repair time scale, a much lengthier process.

From Penn Engineering Today

Positioned for Success
Taussia Boadi and Cheryl Nnadi pose on Penn's campus in front of College Hall, green grass and a huge tree.

Cheryl Nnadi (left) and Taussia Boadi (right) created Positioned for Success, a 2023 winner of Projects for Progress.

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Positioned for Success

The program, launched by recent College of Arts and Sciences grads Taussia Boadi and Cheryl Nnadi, was a 2023 Projects for Progress winner and provides academic support to middle school students affected by gun violence.

Kristen de Groot