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Stentix wins the 2025 Y-Prize
Winners of Penn’s 2025 Y-Prize holding their certificates.

The Stentix team (top) Summer Cobb and Amanda Kossoff, (bottom) Aarsha Shah and Elizabeth Jia, with judges (descending left) Matt Fitz-Henry, Jason Smith, Jennifer Gilburg, and Sasha Schrode, and (descending right) David Hsu, Gerald Lopez, and Dean Miller.

(Image: Courtesy of the William and Phyllis Mack Institute for Innovation Management)

Stentix wins the 2025 Y-Prize

The winning team of Penn Engineering’s annual award for entrepreneurial technology have created a noninvasive mechanism to adjust medical stent positioning using magnetic reconfiguration.

From the William and Phyllis Mack Institute for Innovation Management

Four from Penn named 2025 Sloan Research Fellows
Four portraits arranged in a 2x2 grid. Clockwise from top left: Jason Altschuler, Cesar de la Fuente, Liang Wu, and Anderson Ye Zhang

Jason Altschuler (top left) and Anderson Ye Zhang (bottom left) of the Wharton School, Liang Wu (bottom right) of the School of Arts & Sciences, and César de la Fuente (top right) of the Perelman School of Medicine have been named 2025 Sloan Research Fellows. They are among 126 early-career scientists in North America chosen this year to receive the two-year, $75,000 fellowship in recognition of their accomplishments, creativity, and potential to become leaders in their fields.

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Four from Penn named 2025 Sloan Research Fellows

Jason Altschuler, César de la Fuente, Liang Wu, and Anderson Ye Zhang have been honored as early-career researchers and scholars for their accomplishments, creativity, and potential to become leaders in their fields.
Two Penn alumni named 2025-26 Schwarzman Scholars
Chuanyuan (Suzanne) Liu and Habib Salim standing outside dressed in graduation gowns.

Two members of Penn’s Class of 2023, (from left) Chuanyuan (Suzanne) Liu and Habib Salim, have been named 2025-26 Schwarzman Scholars.

(Images: Courtesy of Chuanyuan (Suzanne) Liu and Habib Salim)

Two Penn alumni named 2025-26 Schwarzman Scholars

Two members of the Class of 2023, Chuanyuan (Suzanne) Liu and Habib Salim, have each received Schwarzman Scholarship funding for a one-year master’s degree in global affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
What’s That? The Heisman Trophy
The Heisman Trophy in the office of football coach Ray Priore.

Image: Eric Sucar

What’s That? The Heisman Trophy

In the office of Ray Priore, head coach of the football team, rests the Heisman Trophy, the most prestigious award in college sports.
Two fourth-year students chosen as 2025 Marshall Scholars
Headshots of Tej Patel and Sridatta Teerdhala

Fourth-years (from left) Tej Patel and Sridatta Teerdhala have been chosen as 2025 Marshall Scholars.

(Image: Courtesy of the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships) 

Two fourth-year students chosen as 2025 Marshall Scholars

Fourth-years Tej Patel and Sridatta Teerdhala, both in the Roy and Diana Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management, a dual degree in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Wharton School, have been chosen as 2025 Marshall Scholars.
PBS News Hour Classroom wins Civics Award to develop community college resources
College students in a classroom.

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PBS News Hour Classroom wins Civics Award to develop community college resources

The award from the Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics will provide PBS News Hour Classroom with over $58,000 to create and publish 32 multimedia resources for adult learners.

From the Annenberg Public Policy Center

Penn fourth-year Om Gandhi is a 2025 Rhodes Scholar
Om Gandhi.

Penn fourth-year Om Gandhi has been awarded a 2025 Rhodes Scholarship. 

(Image: Courtesy of Om Gandhi)

Penn fourth-year Om Gandhi is a 2025 Rhodes Scholar

Penn fourth-year Om Gandhi, from Barrington, Illinois, has been awarded a 2025 Rhodes Scholarship, which funds tuition and a living stipend for graduate study at the University of Oxford in England. He is among 32 American Rhodes Scholars, and an expected 100 worldwide.