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Penn President receives top honor from Pennsylvania Society
Penn president Amy Gutmann on stage at Pennsylvania Society Award dinner with husband and xxxx

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Penn President receives top honor from Pennsylvania Society

The $50,000 philanthropic gift on Amy Gutmann’s behalf was matched by Penn, totaling $100,000 to support West Philadelphia’s Henry C. Lea Elementary School.

Lauren Hertzler

Penn senior and May graduate win 2020 Rhodes Scholarship
Nurul Ezzaty Binti Hasbullah (left) and Stephen Damianos

Penn senior Nurul Ezzaty Binti Hasbullah (left) and May graduate Stephen Damianos have been named Rhodes Scholars to attend Oxford University. 

Penn senior and May graduate win 2020 Rhodes Scholarship

Nurul Ezzaty Binti Hasbullah and Stephen Damianos have been awarded Rhodes Scholarships for graduate study at the University of Oxford.
Pushing medical science forward, with bioethics
Moreno, Gutmann and Villarruel on stage

Pushing medical science forward, with bioethics

Alongside Nursing Dean Antonia M. Villarruel, Penn President Amy Gutmann and PIK Professor Jonathan Moreno discussed their new book “Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die” at the Smilow Center for Translational Research.

Lauren Hertzler

Penn President celebrates new voting machines by exercising her civic duty
Penn President Amy Gutmann exits the voting booth at Vance Hall

Penn President Amy Gutmann exits the voting booth at Vance Hall on the evening of Nov. 5.

Penn President celebrates new voting machines by exercising her civic duty

Amy Gutmann cast her ballot at Vance Hall two hours shy of polls closing in this off-year election, with new voting machines on site and across the entire city.
Leadership named for Paideia Program at Penn
Students sit in circle under a tree

Students lounge on the grass of College Green. (Photo: Penn Sustainability)

Leadership named for Paideia Program at Penn

Michael X. Delli Carpini has been named the inaugural faculty director and Leah Seppanen Anderson the inaugural executive director of the University of Pennsylvania’s new Stavros Niarchos Foundation Paideia Program for Penn undergraduates.
Basser Center takes aim at BRCA
basser center lab

Basser Center takes aim at BRCA

Twenty-five years after the discovery of genetic mutations that dramatically increase cancer risk, the Penn Medicine’s Basser Center for BRCA is building scientific knowledge alongside public awareness about BRCA-related cancers.

Katherine Unger Baillie