2023
Class of 2023 President’s Engagement, Innovation Prize Winners Announced
Two College seniors and a December graduate are among the 2023 President’s Engagement and Innovation Prize winners announced by Penn President Liz Magill.
Faculty Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Members are recognized for their excellence, innovation, leadership, and broad array of accomplishments.
Ibn Sina Global Foundation Gift Supports Humanities Programs and Initiatives
The funds support research, scholarship, and programming in the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business, Penn World Scholars, Islamic Studies, and the Marks Family Writing Center.
2023 Graduation Ceremonies Schedule for Penn Arts & Sciences
Information for the College, the Graduate Division, the College of Liberal & Professional Studies, and Fels Institute of Government.
Michael Mann Receives Humanist of the Year Award
The honor, established in 1953, recognizes “a person of national or international reputation who, through the application of humanist values, has made a significant contribution to the improvement of the human condition.”
Hari Kumar, ENG’95, W’95, and Sonia Nayaham Gift Funds Construction of State-of-the-Art Laboratories and Supports International Research and Scholarship
The gift supports Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology (VLEST), the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI), and undergraduate financial aid to international students.
Dirk Trauner Named an Honorary Skou Professor at Aarhus University in Denmark
The group of special adjunct professors introduce new perspectives to teaching, strengthen relations with leading research units abroad, and establish joint research projects and funding applications.
Students in the Vagelos Program in Life Sciences & Management Win Y-Prize
The team used physics-informed neural network (PINN) technology to improve pulse oximetry in patients with darker skin.
Faculty, Graduate Students Honored for Outstanding Teaching
Penn Arts & Sciences faculty and graduate students were recognized for their outstanding teaching and commitment to students in 2023.
Junior Sarah Asfari Receives 2023 Beinecke Scholarship
The scholarship supports graduate studies in the arts, humanities, or social sciences.
Camille Zubrinsky Charles Is 2023 Honoree of the Faculty Award of Merit
The award is given to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to alumni education and engagement at Penn.
2023 College of Arts & Sciences Graduation Speakers
Joshua Bennett, C’10, award-winning poet, spoken word artist, and author; and student speaker Hoang Le, C’23, W’23, will address the May 14 ceremony.
Three Penn Arts & Sciences Faculty Named 2023 Guggenheim Fellows
Heather K. Love, Jennifer M. Morton, and Projit Bihari Mukharji of the School of Arts & Sciences have been awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for “prior achievement and exceptional promise.”
Three College Students Named 2023 Goldwater Scholars
Goldwater Scholarships are awarded to students planning research careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, or engineering.
Undergraduate and Graduate Students Honored as 2023 Dean’s Scholars
This honor is presented annually to students who exhibit exceptional academic performance and intellectual promise.
Ryan Hynd Receives 2022-2023 Claytor-Gilmer Fellowship
Fellowship recipients are recognized for their achievements as well as for their potential for further contributions to mathematics.
History of Ideas Wins PROSE Award
The six-volume A Cultural History of Ideas was co-edited by Sophia Rosenfeld, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, and Peter Struck, Professor of Classical Studies.
Eight College Students Named Thouron Scholars
The Thouron Award allows recipients to pursue graduate studies in the U.K., providing tuition for as long as two years, as well as travel and living stipends.
Herman Beavers Wins Judith Rodin Education Award and Randy Martin Spirit Award
The Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt President’s Distinguished Professor of English and African Studies was honored for his engagement and service.
Penn Grad Talks Winners
Five graduate students received $500 each for their TED Talk-style presentations.
Mark Trodden Named Next Associate Dean for Natural Sciences
The Fay R. and Eugene L. Langberg Professor of Physics will oversee the School’s natural sciences departments and research centers, effective July 1, 2023.
Robyn E. Sanderson Named 2023 Sloan Research Fellow
The award honors early-career researchers and scholars for their accomplishments, creativity, and potential to become leaders in their fields.
Expand Your Mind at Penn Grad Talks 2023
Penn Arts & Sciences grad students will deliver TED Talk-style presentations on Friday, February 24.
Michael Mann Appointed to Inaugural Advisory Board of the Outrider Foundation
The Outrider Foundation is a nonprofit that supports multimedia storytelling about nuclear issues and climate change.
Arts & Sciences Professors Elected AAAS Fellows
American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows are honored for their “scientifically and socially distinguished achievements.”
Joseph Farrell Wins McKay Book Prize for Juno’s Aeneid
The prize is awarded for the best book in studies of the ancient Roman poet Vergil.
Kimberly Bowes Wins McCann Award from the Archaeological Institute of America
The award honors the two-volume work, The Roman Peasant Project 2009-2014: Excavating the Roman Rural Poor.
Duckworth, Gonzales Recognized as Edu-Scholar Public Influencers
The list by Education Week includes the 200 university-based scholars in the U.S. who did the most last year to shape educational practice and policy.
College Seniors Ryan Jeong and Arnav Lal Awarded 2023 Churchill Scholarships
The scholarship fully funds a year of graduate research study at the University of Cambridge.
The Linda Ye and Robin Ren Family Foundation Funds State-of-the-Art Spectroscopy Facility
The Linda Ye and Robin Ren Family Foundation is dedicated to supporting research that addresses climate change, helping students from disadvantaged backgrounds access and afford a college education, and increasing the understanding of Asian health needs.
Feride Hatiboglu Elected to National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages
Hatiboglu is also current president of the American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages.
Tyshawn Sorey Wins Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation Award
The award from the Library of Congress commissions a new musical work.
2022
Historian Mia Bay Receives the Order of the Coif 2022 Book Award
The awarded books are those that have advanced a field, illuminated new areas of thought and research, or explored the many hard questions that law raises.
Jennifer Morton Receives 2023 Grawemeyer Award in Education
This prestigious honor recognizes Morton’s work on the ethical sacrifices made by first-generation and low-income university students.
Two College Students and One Alum Receive Marshall Scholarships
The Scholarship supports up to three years of graduate study for American students in any field at an institution in the United Kingdom.
College Alum Edward Zhi En Tan Receives Schwarzman Scholarship
The Scholarships fund a one-year master’s degree in global affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Penn Grad Talks 2023
Build your professional portfolio and get a shot at a $500 cash prize (or two)!
Max Cavitch Receives Excellence in Journalism Prize
Cavitch was recognized for his blog, “Psyche on Campus.” which focuses on "teaching psychoanalysis in the undergraduate classroom (and beyond)."
Senior Vikram Balasubramanian Receives George J. Mitchell Scholarship
The scholarship covers a year of postgraduate study in Ireland or Northern Ireland.
Barri Joyce Gold Awarded British Society for Literature and Science Prize for Best Book
"The book not only explores the way the novel is implicated in creating our ecology-breaking culture, but also how we may draw on it to reimagine our historically vexed relationship to the natural world."
Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Adds Director of Science Outreach Initiative
Julee Farley will lead efforts to expand access to science education and careers in STEM.
Michael E. Mann Honored With Stroud Award for Freshwater Excellence
Mann's research interests include the study of Earth’s climate system and the science, impacts, and policy implications of human-caused climate change.
Faculty Named Ivy Plus Provost Leadership Fellows
The fellows will participate in the 2022-2023 Institute on Inquiry, Equity, and Leadership of the Faculty Advancement Network.
Schelter Group Wins 2022 Anders Gustaf Ekeberg Tantalum Prize
The prize is for the publication or patent that made the greatest contribution to understanding the processing, properties, or applications of tantalum.
Scott Burkhardt Awarded Humanitas Prize in Best Short Film Category
The short film also won the 2021 Grand Jury Prize at the 2021 Independent Film Festival Boston, and the script won a production grant from the Sun Valley Film Festival.
Evelyn Thomson Named American Physical Society Fellow
The Professor of Physics and Astronomy was recognized for her work at the Large Hadron Collider.
Sophia Rosenfeld Appointed Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the North
Rosenfeld is an expert in European intellectual and cultural history, with a special emphasis on the Enlightenment, the trans-Atlantic Age of Revolutions, and the legacy of the 18th century for modern democracy.
Joseph Francisco Wins Philadelphia Section Award from the American Chemical Society
The annual award is the top prize for members of each regional section of the ACS.
Jolyon Thomas Appointed to Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission
Thomas researches religion in Japan and the U.S.
Anthea Butler Receives 2022 Marty Award from the American Academy of Religion
The Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought has received the 2022 Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion.