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Kristen de Groot
News Officer
Kristen de Groot covers several subject areas in the School of Arts & Sciences including Political Science, History, Economics, East Asian Languages, Germanic Languages and Literature, Russian & East European Studies, and International Studies, the Penn in Washington Program, the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy, Think Tanks & Civil Societies, Penn Opinion Research & Election Studies (PORES), the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Penn Institute for Economic Research, the Center for Study of Contemporary China and Center for East Asian Studies, the Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics, Fels Institute for Government, and the Center for Ethnicity Race and Immigration. She also covers Penn Global’s Research and Engagement Fund, the SNF Paideia Program, and Perry World House.
Two international students honored with the 2024 Penn Global Student Citizenship Award
Aishwarya Pawar, a Ph.D. student at the Perelman School of Medicine, is the graduate student winner, and David Kato, a fourth-year political science major in the School of Arts & Sciences, is the undergraduate winner.
Ivy Stones, a Penn tradition
Since 1873, each graduating class has placed an Ivy Stone on campus to commemorate their time at Penn.
Seeking answers on civil discourse, finding a community
In his quest to tackle dialogue across differences, political science major Zach Koung has taken more SNF Paideia-affiliated courses than any student in the program.
Two Penn Ph.D. candidates awarded 2024 Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
The School of Arts & Sciences awardees are Arielle Xena Alterwaite, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in history, and Katherine Scahill, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in music.
Laying the groundwork at Penn before taking to the air
Amanda Yagerman, a fourth-year student is majoring in history and English in the College of Arts and Sciences while training to be a naval officer in the Naval ROTC program. She says her experience at Penn has been “the best of both worlds.”
Educate to Empower aims to break down barriers to breast cancer screenings
With the President’s Engagement Prize, fourth-years Simran Rajpal and Gauthami Moorkanat plan to deliver education and resources directly to community centers in Philadelphia, tackling medical mistrust, health literacy, and more.
Penn students, staff work the polls on primary day
Penn’s campus played host to eight polling places where students and community members cast their ballots, with a team of trained poll workers keeping the action running smoothly.
Who, What, Why: Ara Patvakanian
The fourth-year mathematical economics and political science double-major describes how our understanding of economic and political phenomena can have far-reaching consequences and highlights the importance of embracing different intellectual perspectives.
Former UN official on regressive gender-based policies
Speaking at Perry World House (PWH), former United Nations deputy high commissioner for human rights Kate Gilmore, a PWH Visiting Fellow, addressed regressive reproductive and gender-based policies that have gained traction globally.
A trio of events welcome world leaders to Penn
In recent weeks, the Center for Africana Studies hosted the president of Sierra Leone and a former president of South Africa, while Perry World House had a conversation with a former leader of Peru.