Student Archive

  • Shadrack Frimpong, C’15, has been chosen as one of five undergraduates to receive the first annual President’s Engagement Prizes, awarded to Penn students to design and undertake fully funded local, national, or global engagement projects during the year after they graduate. Frimpong will receive $50,000 for living expenses and as much as $100,000 for project implementation expenses to establish a girls’ school and medical clinic in Ghana. The prizes have been generously supported by University Trustee Judith Bollinger, WG’81, PAR’14, and William G.

  • New center lets students get hands-on with Penn Museum’s vast collection

  • Visual Studies majors put it all together.

  • Penn undergraduates introduce local high school students to the philosophical study of education.

  • Penn undergraduate named 2015 Society of Chemical Industry Scholar.

  • History of Art doctoral student Iggy Cortez examines nighttime filming.

  • The Penn Program in Environmental Humanities brings together a wide range of experts for its Urban Nature, Natural City event.

  • Doctoral candidate in history Thomas Brinkerhoff discusses political propaganda in mid-20th-century Argentina.

  • M.Phil. candidate Chris Mustazza is investigating—and making accessible—a lost archive of poets reading their work.

  • Deqa Farah, C’15, discusses the Somali diaspora.

  • Rutendo Chigora, C’15, talks about her plans and her social venture in Zimbabwe.

  • Graduate student Beatrice Markiewicz is using novel techniques to disassemble the amyloid proteins responsible for diseases like Alzheimer’s.

  • Assistant Professor Margaret Bruchac is building an interdisciplinary program on long-term strengths.

  • The Center for Africana Studies Summer Institute for Pre-Freshmen opens minds—and doors.

  • Undergraduate Benjamin Fogel examines the effectiveness of the United Nations’ efforts.

  • Wing So, C'16, examines social media’s impact on war.

  • Graduate student Brandon Hedrick is using statistics to show how dinosaurs looked, moved, and evolved.

  • Undergraduate Leah Davidson uses the visual arts to energize environmentalism.

  • Graduate student Valerio Bacak gathers evidence for better criminal justice penalties.

  • Doctoral candidate Osei Alleyne follows a musical path across the Atlantic from Africa—and back.

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