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Awards
On the bars with Jordyn Mannino
On the bars with Jordyn Mannino
The sophomore from Manhasset, New York, discusses performing on the uneven bars and floor for the gymnastics team.
Fostering a ‘culture of innovation’
Fostering a ‘culture of innovation’
Penn President Amy Gutmann opened McKinsey’s first-ever “Innovation Night,” held at the Penn Museum on Thursday, March 14. It’s a testament to the University’s critical, visionary role in Philadelphia.
Going plastic neutral
Going plastic neutral
The winners of a 2018 Penn President’s Engagement Prize are launching a new venture to address the global problem of plastic waste.
Ivy League honors four Quakers
Ivy League honors four Quakers
Penn picks up the Coach of the Year award, the Defensive Player of the Year award, and All-Ivy honors.
Brodeur, Goodman awarded All-Ivy honors
Brodeur, Goodman awarded All-Ivy honors
Juniors A.J. Brodeur (unanimous first-team All-Ivy) and Devon Goodman (second-team All-Ivy) are the Penn picks for the 2018-19 All-Ivy teams.
Powerful play propels Parker to Ivy Co-Player of the Week
Powerful play propels Parker to Ivy Co-Player of the Week
The sophomore forward put up impressive numbers against Yale and a conference title-clinching win against Brown.
Brodeur named conference Player of the Week
Brodeur named conference Player of the Week
Heroics by the junior forward helped the defending champion Quakers return to the Ivy League Tournament.
A post-Oscars chat with Kathy DeMarco Van Cleve
A post-Oscars chat with Kathy DeMarco Van Cleve
In the latest episode of Penn Today’s ‘Office Hours’ podcast series, a casual chat with Kathy DeMarco Van Cleve, senior lecturer in Cinema and Media Studies.
Charles Kane and Eugene Mele receive the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Charles Kane and Eugene Mele receive the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
The Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria have recognized the Penn physicists for their discovery of topological insulators.
Gaining momentum by the minute
Gaining momentum by the minute
Michael Wong, the student behind startup InstaHub, chats about his path to Penn, his passion for entrepreneurship, and his plans after graduation in May.
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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