Awards

Honoring Women of Color at Penn

On March 16, the Women of Color at Penn 31st Annual Awards Luncheon drew more than 300 people to the Inn at Penn to honor women whose work has promoted education, cultural diversity, and positive change on campus and in the world. 

Jacquie Posey

Lauding a transformative scholar

Chosen for her expertise in Southern and African-American literature, author and poet Thadious Davis was one of the first professors recruited by Penn President Amy Gutmann. Davis was honored at a reception and a symposium which focused on her work exploring race, region, and gender.

Louisa Shepard



In the News


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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CBS News

The mRNA miracle workers

Nobel laureates Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman of the Perelman School of Medicine appear on “Sunday Morning” to discuss their careers, their mRNA research, and the COVID-19 vaccines.

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