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Schwarzman Scholarships announced
Three Award Recipients on Locust Walk on a chilly autumn day.

Seniors Adedotun Adejare and Johnathan Chen and graduate student Zhongyuan Zeng are Schwarzman Scholars. 

Schwarzman Scholarships announced

Two seniors and one graduate student will receive one year of graduate study in global affairs at China’s Tsinghua University.
President Amy Gutmann honored as an Inquirer Icon
Recipients lined up in front of a photo backdrop

Honorees and guest speakers are photographed with Terrance C.Z. Egger (left), president and CEO, Philadelphia Media Network, before The Inquirer Hall of Fame Dinner at the Hyatt at the Bellevue November 28, 2018. With Egger, from left are: Kenneth Frazier, Lisa D. Kabnick, Stephen Starr, Amy Gutmann, Gerard (Jerry) Sweeney, Marguerite Lenfest, Jim Friedlich and Ira Brown. 

President Amy Gutmann honored as an Inquirer Icon

President Gutmann was one of six leaders recognized by The Philadelphia Inquirer for work enriching the Philadelphia community.
Students take gold in Japanese language contest
Barbara, Kinji, and Zizhou holding awards from the language competition From left to right: Barbara Chen, Penn Japanese Language Program Lecturer Kinji Ito, and Zizhou Wang, pictured at the J.LIVE Japanese language competition in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 11. (Photo courtesy: East Asian Languages and Civilizations)

Students take gold in Japanese language contest

In a Japanese-language speaking competition hosted at George Washington University, two Penn students won among university-level competitors from across the country.
PCI event recognizes faculty trailblazers
business woman making connections on a screen while holding an ipad

PCI event recognizes faculty trailblazers

A Penn Center for Innovation event on Wednesday will celebrate this year’s 100-plus patent awardees and honor individuals with the most impressive startups, inventions, devices, and deals.

Lauren Hertzler

Two from Penn named to new class of AAAS Fellows
Michel Koo and Joshua Plotkin

Hyun (Michel) Koo and Joshua Plotkin

Two from Penn named to new class of AAAS Fellows

Noted for their contributions to dental and biological sciences, respectively, Hyun (Michel) Koo of the School of Dental Medicine and Joshua Plotkin of the School of Arts and Sciences are part of the newest cohort of fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Katherine Unger Baillie

A Global Rhodes for Penn
College Hall

A Global Rhodes for Penn

Adamseged Abebe of Gondar, Ethiopia, has been awarded an inaugural Global Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford.
Penn’s Public Safety ranks #1
Uniformed police officers pose in front of a table on Locust Walk

During Coffee with a Cop, 2018. (Photo: Stacy Ritchey, Division of Public Safety)

Penn’s Public Safety ranks #1

For the 12th consecutive year, the Division of Public Safety took the top spot in the higher-education sector of Security magazine’s “Security 500.”
A Rhodes for Penn
Anea Moore is a Penn senior from Philadelphia, Pa.

Penn Senior Anea Moore

A Rhodes for Penn

Penn senior Anea Moore has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford. Considered one of the most prestigious academic honors, the Rhodes is highly competitive.