Read the news articles below to learn more about what our students are up to in the world of undergraduate research, fellowships, and scholars programs! This is a great way to learn more about the types of research and fellowships students are participating in.
Rebecca Heilweil (UScholars) Explores Dual Irish and Jewish Identity in the 20th Century
09/25/2017
Rebecca Heilweil, a senior and University Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, spent this summer solidifying her future while looking into her past.
In June and July, while working in her hometown of New York City as a…
Penn Undergrad Examines Borderline Personality Disorder, Impulsive Decision-Making
09/11/2017
This summer, Christeen Samuel, a University Scholar and a sophomore from New York City, spent 10 weeks in western Germany using technology to observe how the brain changes when a person makes an impulsive, aggressive choice, such as road rage.
Carla Winter (SEAS '16) on the Mitchell Scholarship
09/11/2017
Carla Winter (SEAS '16) is a medical student at Harvard Medical School. Before starting medical school, Carla studied in Ireland on the Mitchell Scholarship from 2016-2017. In Ireland, Carla pursued an MSc in Regenerative Medicine and completed…
Julia Bache featured in Penn News
08/28/2017
Julia Bache, a junior at the University of Pennsylvania (and a University Scholar), is working on a long-term research project that’s focused on the financial sustainability of historic house museums.
Students of Color: CURF is here for us too
07/26/2017
Sonita Moss is a doctoral candidate in the sociology department. Her dissertation research focuses on the contemporary experience of Black Americans living in Paris, France. She is a 2017-2018 Fulbright U.S. Research Grant Finalist.
Top Five Reasons to Apply for a Fulbright Research Fellowship
06/28/2017
Alexander Hoppe gives us his rundown of the importance of the Fulbright. Alexander is a PhD student in the sociology department at Penn. His dissertation studies the apparel global value chain between India and the U.S. to understand how fashion is…
Isabella Cuan's Experience with the Thouron Prize
06/09/2017
Isabella Cuan is a current junior in the College, studying BBB and Art History. Before attending medical school, she hopes to return to the UK to pursue graduate studies in the medical humanities. She is Editor-in-Chief of Penn's fashion and…
Becky Sokolow's Experience as a Thouron Scholar
05/30/2017
Becky Sokolow (C '15) is currently living and studying in Scotland on a Thouron Award. She is studying for an MSc in International Relations at the University of Edinburgh. Before beginning her fellowship, she worked with College Possible, an…
2016 Rhodes Scholar Debi Ogunrinde gives five reasons to apply for a fellowship!
05/01/2017
Debi Ogunrinde is a 2016 Rhodes Scholar and studies anthropology and public policy at Oxford. She debates for the Oxford Union and debated avidly for Penn Parliamentary Debate as a student there. She graduated from the Huntsman Program and studied…
Roxana Moussavian (COL '11) and Ivan Kuznetsov (MED/SEAS) win Soros Fellowships
04/19/2017
University of Pennsylvania alumna Roxana Moussavian, class of 2011, and Ivan A. Kuznetsov, an MD/PhD student at the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, have been awarded the Paul & Daisy Soros…
Anna Drabek (GSE) wins Boren Fellowship
04/19/2017
University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education student Anna Drabek has won a David L. Boren Fellowship, awarded annually to graduate students to support specializations in country/region-specific study, language proficiency, and research…
Gina Elia - 4 Skills I Learned from Living in a Foreign Language Other Than the Language Itself
04/19/2017
Gina Elia, a PhD Candidate in modern Chinese literature, gives us her thoughts on the experience of deep language immersion while living in Taiwan on a Fulbright research grant.