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.
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.
Sarah Cornelius (COL '18) wins Truman Scholarship
04/12/2017
University of Pennsylvania student Sarah Cornelius, a junior in the School of Arts & Sciences, has been awarded a Harry S. Truman Scholarship. This merit-based award supports college students who plan to pursue careers in government or public…
2017-2018 Penn Fulbright Finalists
04/04/2017
Penn students and alumni are starting to be offered Fulbright grants for the 2017-18 academic year. This list will be updated as we hear back from host countries over the next several months.
Michael Tran Duong and Tiberiu Mihaila win Goldwater Scholarship
04/03/2017
University of Pennsylvania students Michael Tran Duong, class of 2019, and Tiberiu Mihaila, class of 2019, have been awarded the Goldwater Scholarship. Additionally, Congzhou Sha, class of 2018, has received an honorable mention from the Goldwater…
Jordan Doman (C'17) wins Hertz Fellowship
03/29/2017
Jordan Doman (C’17), of Monroeville, PA, has been selected as one of only twelve recipients of the prestigious Hertz Fellowship by the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation. The 12 newest Hertz Fellows were chosen from more than 700 applicants interested…
Drew Hasson (COL '14) named a Yenching Scholar
03/28/2017
University of Pennsylvania alumnus Drew Hasson, of Dallas, TX, has been named a Yenching Scholar at the Yenching Academy of Peking University. At the Yenching Academy, Hasson will pursue an economics and management concentration to investigate how…
A Day in the Life: Thouron Scholar
03/22/2017
Peter Barrett Bryan (SAS '16) gives us a window into his experiences as a Thouron Scholar.