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Awards
Gayle selected Ivy League Rookie of the Year
The first-year guard is averaging 14.1 points per game and leads the team in assists, steals, and three-point field goals.
Penn announces nine 2024 Thouron Scholars
Six fourth-year students and three recent graduates will use the award to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom.
Men’s squash team wins national championship
The third-ranked Quakers triumphed over top-ranked Trinity on Sunday to win their first Potter Cup in school history.
Penn students take first at the Thurgood Marshall Moot Court regionals
Penn Carey Law’s Kanyinsola Ajayi and Ty Parks captured first place in the Mid-Atlantic Regional Competition, and advance to the competition’s national championship.
Women’s track & field team wins seventh Indoor Ivy Heps title
The Quakers produced five first-place and six second-place finishes over the weekend at Harvard.
Penn 2022 graduate awarded a Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Fellowship
Jade Gonzalez, a 2022 Penn graduate, has been selected as a 2024 Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Fellow and will receive funding for a two-year master’s degree and path to a career in the U.S. Foreign Service.
Martin Claassen and Jiaoyang Huang named 2024 Sloan Research Fellows
Two from Penn honored as early career researchers and scholars for their accomplishments, creativity, and potential to become leaders in their fields.
What makes a breakthrough? ‘Eight steps back’ before making it to the finish line
Four of Penn’s Breakthrough Prize recipients, Carl June, Katalin Karikó, Virginia M-Y Lee, and Drew Weissman, were honored at a reception on Feb. 13.
Penn named a ‘top producer’ of 2023-24 Fulbright Scholars
The U.S. Department of State has named Penn a Fulbright U.S. Student Program “top producing institution” for the 2023-24 academic year, as one of the colleges and universities with the highest number of recipients selected.
Andy Ma named Ivy Coach of the Year
The veteran coach guided the women’s fencing team to their first conference title in 20 years.
In the News
Philadelphia’s Tyshawn Sorey wins Pulitzer Prize in music
Tyshawn Sorey of the School of Arts & Sciences has won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in music for “Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith),” a concerto for saxophone and orchestra.
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He started college in prison. Now, he is Rutgers-Camden’s first Truman scholar
Tej Patel, a third-year in the Wharton School and College of Arts and Sciences from Billeria, Massachusetts, was one of 60 college students nationwide chosen to be a Truman Scholar.
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Storyshares seeks to raise reading levels of forgotten tweens, teens and adults
John Gamba of the Graduate School of Education served as the Storyshares literary hub’s strategy and research mentor at the 2023 Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition.
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The mRNA miracle workers
Nobel laureates Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman of the Perelman School of Medicine appear on “Sunday Morning” to discuss their careers, their mRNA research, and the COVID-19 vaccines.
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The Franklin Institute honors nine scientists and engineers on its 200th anniversary
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman of the Perelman School of Medicine are noted for receiving awards from the Franklin Institute and subsequently being honored with a Nobel Prize.
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You should still get the COVID-19 vaccine. The Nobel Prize winner who helped discover it explains why
Drew Weissman of the Perelman School of Medicine, who won the Nobel Prize along with Katalin Karikó, discusses the backlash against vaccinations and whether to receive the latest COVID vaccine.
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