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Due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, Penn Arts & Sciences is honoring its 2021 graduates with virtual celebrations in May. Information and links are below:

College of Arts & Sciences

Premiering May 17, 2021, at 1 p.m. EDT
Speaker: Mary Frances Berry, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History and Africana Studies
Student Speaker: Justin Greenman, C’21
For more information, visit Celebrating the College Class of 2021.

Graduate Division

Premiering Monday, May 17, at 1 p.m. EDT
Speaker: Eve M. Troutt Powell, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of History and Africana Studies
Student Speakers: Brian Chao, GR'20 (Political Science); Augusta Irele, GR'21 (Comparative Literature and Literary Theory); and Aline Zanardini, GR'21 (Mathematics)
For more information, visit Celebrating Our 2021 Graduates.

College of Liberal & Professional Studies

Premiering Sunday, May 16, 2021, at 4 p.m. EDT
Speaker: Sulaiman W. Rahman, ENG'01, CEO of DiverseForce
For more information, visit the College of Liberal & Professional Studies graduation page.

For information on the University commencement, see the Commencement website.

 

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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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