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Penn 2025 graduate awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship
Rameen Iftikhar.

Class of 2025 graduate student Rameen Iftikhar is one of 95 new Gates Cambridge Scholars.

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Penn 2025 graduate awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship

Rameen Iftikhar, who completed a master’s degree in international education development from the Graduate School of Education in January, has been awarded a 2025 Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which covers the full cost of studying at University of Cambridge in England for as long as four years.

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Aiming for a ‘holistic representation’ career as dual-degree Law and SP2 grad
Christina Bartzokis sits outside Penn Carey Law.

Christina Bartzokis is earning dual degrees from Penn Carey Law and the School of Social Policy & Practice, and is headed to Louisiana to start her practice as a public defender.

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Aiming for a ‘holistic representation’ career as dual-degree Law and SP2 grad

Christina Bartzokis worked as a Child Protective Services case worker for three years in rural Oregon. Now she’s set her sights on Louisiana, where she’ll serve as a public defender.

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Graduating student veteran makes use of a Yellow Ribbon award
Alice Wu, a Yellow Ribbon award recipient graduating from SP2's Master of Social Work program

Alice Wu, a Yellow Ribbon award recipient graduating from SP2's Master of Social Work program.

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Graduating student veteran makes use of a Yellow Ribbon award

Alice Wu, a Navy veteran graduating from the School of Social Policy & Practice in May, used support from the Yellow Ribbon Program to make a principled, impact-driven career change.

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Nate Silver on statistics: Playing it safe versus embracing risk
Al Filreis and Nate Silver in discussion on stage.

Nate Silver (right) and School of Arts & Sciences Kelly Family Professor of English Al Filreis in conversation at the Stephen A. Levin Family Dean’s Forum.

(Image: Lisa J. Godfrey)

Nate Silver on statistics: Playing it safe versus embracing risk

At the Stephen A. Levin Family Dean’s Forum, statistician Nate Silver spoke with Al Filreis, Kelly Family Professor of English, about his new book and risk-taking, with tangents into hobbies, poker, and baseball.

From Omnia

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‘Media and Propaganda in an Age of Disinformation’

‘Media and Propaganda in an Age of Disinformation’

In a new book, Annenberg School for Communication professor Barbie Zelizer and other communication scholars explore media and propaganda across borders, topics, and timelines.

From Annenberg School for Communication

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An ‘archival discovery’ about a 17th-century Shakespeare Folio
a burned Shakespeare Folio in a glass box

A the remains of a burned Shakespeare Folio in a sealed glass case is part of the Penn Libraries collection. 

(Image: Courtesy of the Penn Libraries)

An ‘archival discovery’ about a 17th-century Shakespeare Folio

In the Penn Libraries is a sealed glass box containing the charred pages of a 17th-century Folio, a collection of plays by William Shakespeare. An archival discovery by Penn faculty proves that it is from the Third Folio, not the First as it was previously identified.

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