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Stentix wins the 2025 Y-Prize
Winners of Penn’s 2025 Y-Prize holding their certificates.

The Stentix team (top) Summer Cobb and Amanda Kossoff, (bottom) Aarsha Shah and Elizabeth Jia, with judges (descending left) Matt Fitz-Henry, Jason Smith, Jennifer Gilburg, and Sasha Schrode, and (descending right) David Hsu, Gerald Lopez, and Dean Miller.

(Image: Courtesy of the William and Phyllis Mack Institute for Innovation Management)

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.

From the William and Phyllis Mack Institute for Innovation Management

Who, What, Why: Serene Safvi on strengthening dialogue
A woman in a brown jacket and brown shirt stands in a stairwell smiling at the camera.

Serene Safvi, a philosophy, politics, and economics major, says the SNF Paideia Program’s fellowship has helped her understand the importance of dialogue and bridging differences.

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    • 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
    A man stands in a stairwell leaning on the banister.

    Connor Nakamura’s senior thesis traces Bayard Rustin’s life from 1955 to 1965, including his focus on creating economic opportunity.

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    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.
    Finding the rhythm behind business fundamentals
    Grace Gramins plays a guitar with a friend on keyboard on Penn’s campus.

    Image: Courtesy of Grace Gramins

    Finding the rhythm behind business fundamentals

    Wharton undergraduate Grace Gramins finds harmony between music production and business.

    From Wharton Stories

    Fifth Energy Week to bring Penn community together around solutions
    Angela Pachon and Danny Cullenward at 2024 Energy Week event.

    As part of Energy Week in 2024, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy Research Director Angela Pachon moderated a discussion with Kleinman Center Senior Fellow Danny Cullenward on decarbonizing the industrial sector.

    (Image: T. Kevin Birch)

    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.
    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: 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 fourth-year students chosen as 2025 Marshall Scholars
    Headshots of Tej Patel and Sridatta Teerdhala

    Fourth-years (from left) Tej Patel and Sridatta Teerdhala have been chosen as 2025 Marshall Scholars.

    (Image: Courtesy of the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships) 

    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.