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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 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.
    $50M legacy gift to Penn Arts & Sciences funds undergraduate aid
    Penn students on Locust Walk in winter.

    The William J. Levy Endowed Scholarship Fund will support over 40 civic-minded students in the Penn’s College of Arts & Sciences annually.

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    $50M legacy gift to Penn Arts & Sciences funds undergraduate aid

    With an estate gift of more than $42 million, William J. Levy, a graduate of the Wharton School and Penn Carey Law School, has contributed $50 million in support of undergraduate students in the College.
    A College House Thanksgiving
    A group of people sit together at a long table with plates of food and Thanksgiving decor

    Thanksgiving at Lauder College House.

    (Image: Cam Grey)

    A College House Thanksgiving

    Thanksgiving in Penn’s 13 College Houses is an annual holiday tradition with catered and homemade offerings from around the world.

    Kristina García

    A semester of community on campus
    A group of Penn students pose for a selfie.

    The Penn community gathered on campus throughout the fall semester, including at Family Weekend.

    (Image: Sylvia Zhang)

    A semester of community on campus

    Penn’s fall semester officially began in August, as many students returned to campus. While staff, faculty, and postdocs are largely in West Philadelphia year-round, the fall marks a reset and starting point for many. The late summer and mild fall weather brings the natural beauty of campus to life.
    Penn fourth-year Om Gandhi is a 2025 Rhodes Scholar
    Om Gandhi.

    Penn fourth-year Om Gandhi has been awarded a 2025 Rhodes Scholarship. 

    (Image: Courtesy of Om Gandhi)

    Penn fourth-year Om Gandhi is a 2025 Rhodes Scholar

    Penn fourth-year Om Gandhi, from Barrington, Illinois, has been awarded a 2025 Rhodes Scholarship, which funds tuition and a living stipend for graduate study at the University of Oxford in England. He is among 32 American Rhodes Scholars, and an expected 100 worldwide.