The University of Pennsylvania is proud to be included again on the list of U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most 2018-2019 Fulbright U.S. Students recently announced by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The Fulbright Program is the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program. Top-producing institutions are highlighted annually in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Anea sits down with us in the Fireside Lounge to talk about the road to the Rhodes and her plans for her future.

Senior WenTao Zhang, a Joseph Wharton Scholar, won Penn's prestigious Y-Prize competition, along with his three teammates.

Professor Diana Robertson was recently named one of the top 50 undergraduate business instructors by Poets and Quants.

Three Penn students have been awarded Schwarzman Scholarships, which will fund a year of graduate study leading to a master’s degree in global affairs at China’s Tsinghua University for each of them. They are seniors Adedotun Adejare of Albrightsville, Pa., and Johnathan Chen of Shanghai and graduate student Zhongyuan Zeng of Beijing.

In 2016, Penn senior and Biological Basis of Behavior major Kriya Patel was one of the second annual cohort of President’s Engagement Prize recipients. The University of Pennsylvania President’s Engagement Prizes are awarded to “academically excellent and civically engaged” Penn seniors for the implementation of projects that aim to transform the lives of others during the first year after they graduate from Penn. The recipients thereby exemplify the Penn tradition of “doing well by doing good.” Patel used her prize to launch a healthcare reentry program at Riverside Correctional Facility, a Philadelphia women’s jail. Two years later, CURF Fellow Kathryn Morgan reached out to Kriya to follow up on her fellowship experience and the path it set her on. Kriya responded candidly about the unexpected challenges she faced, the importance of her Penn mentors, and her continued determination to do good in the world through expanding access to healthcare.

University of Pennsylvania senior Adamseged Abebe of Gondar, Ethiopia, has been awarded an inaugural Global Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford. He is one of two chosen from countries around the world for the new honor, which allows exceptional students who are from countries not historically eligible.

Anea Moore has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford. Moore is majoring in sociology and urban studies with a concentration in law and a minor in Africana studies. A first-generation, low-income (FGLI) student, she has become an advocate for the Penn First community, creating a student-focused program housed at the Greenfield Intercultural Center that provides additional resources to more than 1,000 FGLI students.

Anea sits down with us in the Fireside Lounge to discuss her ambitions of creating education reform in her home city of Philadelphia and what advice she has for other first-generation low-income students considering applying for prestigious fellowships.

A summer research seminar by the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities (PPEH) and funded by the Summer Undergraduate Research Group Grant allowed students to conduct research on Philadelphia's waterways and collaborate with community partners.

Rising senior Idil Demirdag, a psychology major from Istanbul, just completed 11 weeks working in marketing and communications at the Penn Museum through the Summer Humanities Internship Program. In a blog post, she explores the history of Queen Puabi’s lapis lazuli and gold diadems, now on display in the new Middle East Galleries.

After graduating from Penn in 2013, Daniel Goldstern sought out, and landed, a job in investment banking. A political science major with a love of philosophy, Dan was determined to bring these interests into his professional life. He pursued real estate development in New York City before enrolling in the inaugural (2016-17) class of Schwarzman Scholars at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. The diverse community of peers and ideas Dan found there gave him the space and perspective to assess where he could best enact meaningful change in his own community. Dan returned to NYC in 2017 to take up a role as a policy advisor to the Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development. CURF Fellow Kathryn Morgan caught up with Dan in May 2018, as concerns about an impending ‘trade war’ between the US and China were on the rise. Dan spoke thoughtfully about what he gained by pursuing a graduate degree in China, his decision to transition from the private to the public sector, and what the Schwarzman experience has meant to him, personally and professionally.