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Two Penn students chosen as 2026 Marshall Scholars
Adelaide Lyall, left, Norah Rami, right

From left, Adelaide Lyall and Norah Rami are Penn's 2026 Marshall Scholars.

(Images: Courtesy of Adelaide Lyall and Norah Rami)

Two Penn students chosen as 2026 Marshall Scholars

Adelaide Lyall, a graduate student in the School of Social Policy & Practice, and Norah Rami, a fourth-year in the College of Arts & Sciences, will receive funding for as much as three years of graduate study in the United Kingdom.

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Buddhism behind bars

Buddhism behind bars

Kirby Sokolow, a School of Arts & Sciences Ph.D. candidate in religious studies, wants to challenge stereotypes around incarceration and religion.

2 min. read

Bringing COP30 from Brazil into Penn classrooms
The exterior of the building for COP30.

Image: Courtesy of COP30

Bringing COP30 from Brazil into Penn classrooms

Penn Carey Law professors Bill Burke-White and Ken Kulak attended COP30, this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference, and incorporated their experiences into their International Climate Change and Energy Law and Climate Change courses.

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Analyzing feminism and traditional gender roles on social media

Analyzing feminism and traditional gender roles on social media

In a new paper, Annenberg School for Communication Dean Sarah Banet-Weiser and doctoral student Sara Reinis analyze popular “tradwife” social media accounts, which embrace traditional gender roles and the rejection of “the rejection of hustle culture.”

Hailey Reissman

The research landscape is changing. Penn Forward’s Research Strategy co-chairs are ready to adapt
Michael Ostap, left, with David Meaney outdoors in front of a limestone building with autumn trees, wearing suits and ties.

Michael Ostap, left, with David Meaney on College Green. Ostap and Meaney are co-chairs of Penn Forward’s Research Strategy and Financing working group.

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    • The research landscape is changing. Penn Forward’s Research Strategy co-chairs are ready to adapt

    As co-chairs of the Penn Forward Research Strategy and Financing working group, David Meaney, vice provost for research, and Michael Ostap, chief scientific officer of the Perelman School of Medicine, are collaborating to expand Penn’s research impact.

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    Kelly Jordan-Sciutto on advancing graduate education through Penn Forward
    Kelly Jordan-Sciutto smiling at fellow panelists.

    Kelly Jordan-Sciutto, vice provost for graduate education and chair of the Penn Forward working group for Graduate and Professional Training. 

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    • Kelly Jordan-Sciutto on advancing graduate education through Penn Forward

    Kelly Jordan-Sciutto, vice provost for graduate education and chair of the Penn Forward Graduate and Professional Training working group, says, ‘I don’t want students to walk uphill both ways in the snow just because I had to.’

    7 min. read

    How a coral stiffens its skeleton on demand
    Chenhao Hu holds up a 3D-printed model of a sclerite.

    Penn Engineering doctoral student Chenhao Hu holding a 3D-printed model of a sclerite, the tiny mineral particles that make up the coral’s skeleton and whose unique shape allows the organism to tune its own stiffness.

    (Image: Bella Ciervo)

    How a coral stiffens its skeleton on demand

    Researchers at Penn Engineering have discovered how a coral’s skeleton compacts itself to ward off danger, a novel discovery of “granular jamming” in a living organism.

    Ian Scheffler

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    A Lauder Institute intercultural venture in Oman and the UAE
    Lauder Institute students looking at a scale model of a city.

    Lauder Institute students observing at a scale model of a city during the Dubai leg of their international trip.

    (Image: Mili Lozada-Cerna)

    A Lauder Institute intercultural venture in Oman and the UAE

    Graduate students in the Lauder Intercultural Ventures program traveled from Oman to Dubai to learn about urban growth, trade, tourism, and development in areas entrenched in cultural history and with deep religious roots.

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    Ph.D. researcher Yefan Zhi wins the Hangai Prize

    Ph.D. researcher Yefan Zhi wins the Hangai Prize

    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”.