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Penn 2025 graduate awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship
Rameen Iftikhar.

Class of 2025 graduate student Rameen Iftikhar is one of 95 new Gates Cambridge Scholars.

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Penn 2025 graduate awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship

Rameen Iftikhar, who completed a master’s degree in international education development from the Graduate School of Education in January, has been awarded a 2025 Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which covers the full cost of studying at University of Cambridge in England for as long as four years.

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Aiming for a ‘holistic representation’ career as dual-degree Law and SP2 grad
Christina Bartzokis sits outside Penn Carey Law.

Christina Bartzokis is earning dual degrees from Penn Carey Law and the School of Social Policy & Practice, and is headed to Louisiana to start her practice as a public defender.

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Aiming for a ‘holistic representation’ career as dual-degree Law and SP2 grad

Christina Bartzokis worked as a Child Protective Services case worker for three years in rural Oregon. Now she’s set her sights on Louisiana, where she’ll serve as a public defender.

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Concrete panels as teaching tools, materials testing, and outdoor sculptures
Richard Garber standing outside in front of concrete panel

Architect Richard Garber created and teaches the graduate course Matter Making and Testing: Designing with Next Generation Precast Concrete.

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Concrete panels as teaching tools, materials testing, and outdoor sculptures

On view outside the Weitzman School of Design are three freestanding concrete panels designed and made by students in a unique graduate seminar that partners with a local concrete-fabrication plant

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Graduating student veteran makes use of a Yellow Ribbon award
Alice Wu, a Yellow Ribbon award recipient graduating from SP2's Master of Social Work program

Alice Wu, a Yellow Ribbon award recipient graduating from SP2's Master of Social Work program.

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Graduating student veteran makes use of a Yellow Ribbon award

Alice Wu, a Navy veteran graduating from the School of Social Policy & Practice in May, used support from the Yellow Ribbon Program to make a principled, impact-driven career change.

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Improving AI and machine learning
(From left) Zachary Ives, Zixuan Yi, and Ryan Marcus.

Zixuan Yi with advisers Zachary Ives (left) and Ryan Marcus.

(Image: Sylvia Zhang)

Improving AI and machine learning

Zixuan Yi, a doctoral student in computer and information science, bridges the gap between learning methods and real-world system constraints utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning.

From Penn Engineering

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A nontraditional journey to dental school
Dental student outside of university building

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A nontraditional journey to dental school

Kendra Domotor may have “zigzagged” her way to dentistry, but her journey helped her find her center in dentistry, helping her blend her love of science, teaching, and service.

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Penn lends support to Rebuilding Together Philadelphia effort repairing 11 local homes in two days
Volunteers smiling and carrying tools and supplies during the block build event.

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Penn lends support to Rebuilding Together Philadelphia effort repairing 11 local homes in two days

Marking a milestone block build, 70 Penn volunteers combined forces with Rebuilding Together Philadelphia, a nonprofit with roots at the University, to revitalize owner-occupied houses in the West Philadelphia community. The momentous two-day event involved a block build and speaking program—with a local homeowner sharing a heartfelt message.

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Veterinary student on the human benefits of poultry medicine
Dana Bubka.

Dana Bubka, an aspiring diagnostic poultry veterinarian, has been doing clinical rotations at New Bolton Center leading up to her graduation in May from the School of Veterinary Medicine.

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Veterinary student on the human benefits of poultry medicine

Dana Bubka came to the School of Veterinary Medicine knowing she wanted to be a poultry veterinarian, and after graduation, she is staying at Penn for a residency in anatomic pathology.

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Teaching crisis negotiation
Penn Carey Law students in a classroom.

For the two-day exercise, the students organized into nine teams, each representing a different nation, to resolve an international dispute in the South China Sea with diplomatic, informational, military, legal, and economic factors at play.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Carey Law)

Teaching crisis negotiation

Each spring, the U.S. Army War College holds an International Strategic Crisis Negotiation Exercise at Penn Carey Law, designed to engage and educate law students in the process of crisis negotiation at the strategic level.

From Penn Carey Law

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