College Graduation

College of Arts and Sciences
Ceremony: Sunday, May 19, 6:30 p.m., Franklin Field
Class of 2019 Speaker: Hannah Sweeney, C’19
Speaker: Stacey Snider, C’82, PAR’19, Film Studio Executive

Graduate Division
Ceremony: Saturday, May 18, 1:00 p.m., Irvine Auditorium
Speaker: Deborah A. Thomas, R. Jean Brownlee Term Professor of Anthropology

College of Liberal and Professional Studies
Ceremony: Sunday, May 19, 4:00 p.m., Zellerbach Theatre, Annenberg Center
Speaker: Cristina Bicchieri, Sascha Jane Patterson Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics

Fels Institute of Government
Ceremony: Sunday, May 19, 9:30 a.m., National Constitution Center
Speaker: U.S. Senator Christopher Coons (Delaware)

 

Arts & Sciences News

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Marisa C. Kozlowski Named Next Associate Dean for the Natural Sciences

Kozlowski, who joined the Penn faculty in 1997, succeeds Mark Trodden, who transitions to the Dean of Penn Arts & Sciences on June 1.

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One Fourth Year, One Alum Receive 2025 Hertz Fellowship

Eric Tao, C’25, Gr’25 (left), and Suraj Chandran, C’23, were awarded the honor, part of a group of 19 fellows selected this year. Each one receives five years of funding toward a doctoral program.

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Benjamin Nathans Wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction

Nathans, Alan Charles Kors Endowed Term Professor of History, won for his book “To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement.”

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Mark Devlin Elected to National Academy of Sciences

He joins three others from Penn to receive the honor this year, all recognized for “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.”

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Michael Jones-Correa and Sophia Rosenfeld Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

They join three others from the University of Pennsylvania, selected as part of the Academy’s mission to convene leaders from “every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together.”

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Eva Del Soldato Awarded 2025-26 Rome Prize

She joins Sean Burkholder, of the Weitzman School of Design, and just 33 others in receiving the prestigious honor from the American Academy in Rome.

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