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Gobhanu Sasankar Korisepati is making an impact around the world
Gobhanu Korisepati standing with his arms crossed.

Korisepati is involved in many student clubs on campus, including as president of Penn Microfinance. 

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Gobhanu Sasankar Korisepati is making an impact around the world

Gobhanu Sasankar Korisepati co-founded the international microfinancing nonprofit Sustaining Women in Financial Turmoil while in high school, and, as a student at Penn, he continues as executive chairman.
Who, What, Why: Alexander Schrier on Uzbekistan’s role in a new world order
Alexander Schrier looks down from an upper floor of a building, standing behind waist-high glass panels.

Fourth-year Alexander Schrier has been studying Uzbekistan and Central Asian diplomacy for his senior thesis in international relations.

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  • Who, What, Why

    • Who, What, Why: Alexander Schrier on Uzbekistan’s role in a new world order

    The fourth-year international relations student is researching Uzbekistan and Central Asian diplomacy, with a summer spent talking with taxi drivers and U.S. ambassadors on the ground in Tashkent.
    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.
    South Korea crisis, explained
    A crowd of people are gathered in a public square, facing left, holding candles and carrying signs in a vigil calling for the South Korean president’s resignation.

    People gather in Seoul, South Korea, for a candlelight vigil to call for President Yoon Suk Yeol’s resignation on Dec. 4, following his short-lived martial law declaration.

    (Image: Kyodo via AP Images)

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    • South Korea crisis, explained

    South Korea plunged into a state of national crisis this week over a six-hour martial law declaration by President Yoon Suk Yeol. Roiled by his own sinking popularity and now facing an impeachment inquiry, Yoon’s political future is now on the line.
    Bridging cultures and building connections at the Lauder Institute
    Kenric Tsethlikai.

    Kenric Tsethlikai began working at the Lauder Institute in 2008 as the director of Language and Culture Programs. He was appointed managing director in 2012.

    (Image: Lauren Treutler)

    Bridging cultures and building connections at the Lauder Institute

    How the Institute’s managing director Kenric Tsethlikai’s native roots laid the seeds for international success.

    From the Lauder Institute

    Penn alum named 2024 Yenching Scholar
    Jing-Jing Piriyalertsak standing outside a building with trees

    Chonnipha (Jing Jing) Piriyalertsak, a 2023 graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences from Bangkok, has been selected as a 2024 Yenching Scholar.

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    Penn alum named 2024 Yenching Scholar

    Chonnipha (Jing Jing) Piriyalertsak, a 2023 graduate, has been selected as a 2024 Yenching Scholar, with full funding to pursue an interdisciplinary master’s degree in China studies at the Yenching Academy of Peking University in Beijing.
    Europe sees signs of Russian sabotage but hesitates to blame Kremlin
    The Wall Street Journal

    Europe sees signs of Russian sabotage but hesitates to blame Kremlin

    Benjamin L. Schmitt of the School of Arts & Sciences and the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the Weitzman School of Design says that avoiding attributing acts of sabotage to Russia will only degrade deterrence and invite further attacks against critical infrastructure.

    Two Penn Ph.D. candidates awarded 2024 Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
    A spilt image shows Arielle Alterwaite in the left half, posing with arms crossed and leaving against the exterior of a brick building, and the right side shows Katherine Scahill looking at the camera against a wallpapered background of tan and dusty red print.

    History Ph.D. candidate Arielle Xena Alterwaite (left) and Music Ph.D. student Katherine Scahill (right) have been awarded the 2024 Newcombe Fellowship.

    (Image: Courtesy of Eric Sucar, left; Courtesy Katherine Scahill, right)

    Two Penn Ph.D. candidates awarded 2024 Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

    The School of Arts & Sciences awardees are Arielle Xena Alterwaite, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in history, and Katherine Scahill, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in music.

    Kristen de Groot