Awards

Penn’s Annenberg Public Policy Center and the Walter Cronkite Awards for Excellence in Political Journalism have awarded the Brooks Jackson Prize for Fact-Checking to KSL-TV 5 Salt Lake City, recognized for its Truth Test series of fact-checks during Utah’s 2024 legislative session.

Yefan Zhi, a third-year Ph.D. student in architecture at the Weitzman School and a member of the Polyhedral Structures Laboratory has won the Hangai Prize at the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures Annual Symposium 2025 for co-authoring the paper “Surface-Toolpath Twins of Shell Components in 3D Concrete Printing for Optimized Buildability and Surface Quality”.

Edward Humes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, visited Penn last month to accept the Penn Libraries Book Prize in Sustainability for his book “Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World.”

The Trustees’ Council of Penn Women will present its highest honor, the Beacon Award, to journalist and alum Andrea Mitchell for her distinguished career in journalism and her leadership in advancing opportunities for women.

The Annenberg Public Policy Center director has been honored with the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s William D. Carey Lectureship Award for Leadership in Science Policy. Her presentation at the 49th Annual AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy, “Preempting public misconceptions about science,” urged scientists and science communicators to stop being reactive in seeking to correct misinformation.

Daniel P. Kelly, the Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases and director of the Penn and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Cardiovascular Institutes, has been named a 2025 Distinguished Scientist by the American Heart Association for contributions to cardiovascular, stroke, and brain health research.

The Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s Communication Science division has been honored with the 2025 Career Contribution Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology for her contributions to social psychology.

George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology & Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights Dorothy E. Roberts has been named a recipient of the 2025 Bioethics Founders’ Award, which recognizes individuals who have made substantial, sustained contributions to bioethics in ways that have advanced thinking and practice in medicine, the life sciences, and public policy.

The newly-elected members are Gerd A. Blobel, co-director of Penn's Epigenetics Institute; Enrique Schisterman, chair and Perelman Professor of biostatistics, epidemiology, and informatics; and Katalin Susztak, professor of nephrology and genetics and director of the Kidney Innovation Center at Penn and CHOP.

Fourth-year wide receiver Jared Richardson was tabbed Ivy Offensive Player of the Week for the second week in a row, in Penn’s 35-21 victory at Columbia on Oct. 18.