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Undergraduate Students
Stentix wins the 2025 Y-Prize
Stentix wins the 2025 Y-Prize
The winning team of Penn Engineering’s annual award for entrepreneurial technology have created a noninvasive mechanism to adjust medical stent positioning using magnetic reconfiguration.
Who, What, Why: Serene Safvi on strengthening dialogue
Who, What, Why: Serene Safvi on strengthening dialogue
The third-year Paideia Program fellow shares her work educating others about issues and the importance of constructive conversations.
Senior thesis explores Bayard Rustin’s civil rights vision
Senior thesis explores Bayard Rustin’s civil rights vision
Fourth-year Connor Nakamura’s research delves into Rustin’s life, work, and legacy as a thinker and leader.
European Studies Institute aims to center the continent for interested undergrads
European Studies Institute aims to center the continent for interested undergrads
Launch of the Institute and rebirth of a minor in European studies create new opportunities for student research and travel abroad.
Fifth Energy Week to bring Penn community together around solutions
Fifth Energy Week to bring Penn community together around solutions
More than two dozen events held Feb. 10-14 will give students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to learn about energy-related research and work at Penn and beyond.
Finding the rhythm behind business fundamentals
Finding the rhythm behind business fundamentals
Wharton undergraduate Grace Gramins finds harmony between music production and business.
Gobhanu Sasankar Korisepati is making an impact around the world
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
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.
A look back at 2024 through Penn Today stories
A look back at 2024 through Penn Today stories
Revisit some of the stories that highlighted the events, breakthroughs, people, and research across the University this year.
Two fourth-year students chosen as 2025 Marshall Scholars
Two fourth-year students chosen as 2025 Marshall Scholars
Fourth-years Tej Patel and Sridatta Teerdhala, both in the Roy and Diana Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management, a dual degree in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Wharton School, have been chosen as 2025 Marshall Scholars.
In the News
Chicago Sun-Times
UChicago students, Barrington native among 2024 Rhodes Scholars heading to University of Oxford
College of Arts and Sciences fourth-year Om Gandhi from Barrington, Illinois, has been awarded a 2025 Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Penn student awarded Rhodes Scholarship to continue cancer research at Oxford University
College of Arts and Sciences fourth-year Om Gandhi from Barrington, Illinois, has been awarded a 2025 Rhodes Scholarship to continue his cancer research at Oxford University.
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NPR
North Gaza siege, North Korean troops in Russia, Pennsylvania voters
Three Penn students are interviewed about their views on the presidential election and their decisions about where to register to vote.
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Fox 29 (Philadelphia)
2024 Election: The role Gen Z, Millennials could play
Three Penn third-years with leadership roles in Penn Democrats share their thoughts about the presidential election.
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NBC News
More colleges are offering AI degrees—could they give job seekers an edge?
Penn will offer a major in AI starting this fall, with remarks from rising third-year Emma Twitmyer of Wayne, Pennsylvania.
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Associated Press
Record-breaking Matthew Fallon leads young contingent on U.S. men’s Olympic swim team
Rising fourth-year Matthew Fallon of Warren, New Jersey, has qualified for the men’s U.S. Olympic swimming team.
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