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Building literacy and leadership through basketball
Summer Kollie, Princess Aghayere, and Oladunni Alomaja, winners of a 2019 President's Engagement Prize

Building literacy and leadership through basketball

Three seniors with roots in West Africa will use their President’s Engagement Prize to build a program for Liberian girls that will combine sports and reading.

Gwyneth K. Shaw

Here’s what Wharton’s massive startup hub will look like
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Here’s what Wharton’s massive startup hub will look like

Renderings of the new Tangen Hall building have been released. President Amy Gutmann said “the real motivator for this is the amazing entrepreneurial and innovative spirit of our undergraduate and graduate students who are working to do great things in the world.” The hall is named after Wharton alumnus Nicolai Tangen and his wife, Katja, whose gift made the building possible.

Safe haven
Brendan Taliaferro

 Brendan Taliaferro of Host Homes for LGBTQ Youth in Philadelphia

Safe haven

Senior Brendan Taliaferro receives the President’s Engagement Prize for a project to provide housing and support for homeless LGBTQ youth in Philadelphia.
9 Penn students win big prizes to fund projects to promote social change
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9 Penn students win big prizes to fund projects to promote social change

Penn has awarded nine graduating seniors with the annual President’s Engagement and Innovation prizes. President Amy Gutmann said, “Each of the prize recipients has demonstrated a purpose-driven desire to get out and make a difference in their community, across the country, and around the world.”

Record gift from Roy and Diana Vagelos to create new energy science and technology building
Roy and Diana Vagelos

Roy and Diana Vagelos

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Record gift from Roy and Diana Vagelos to create new energy science and technology building

Roy and Diana Vagelos have made a gift of $50 million to Penn Arts & Sciences for a new science center focused on energy science. The gift creating the new energy science and technology building In support of the Power of Penn Arts & Sciences Campaign is the largest in the School’s history.
The future of Annenberg, with John L. Jackson Jr. at the helm
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The future of Annenberg, with John L. Jackson Jr. at the helm

Under his leadership, the school is poised to further engage in the pressing cultural, political, and ideological conversations happening in today’s unprecedented media landscape.

Michele W. Berger