As a Citation Laureate, Penn Physicist Contender for Nobel Prize

Charles Kane, Class of 1965 Term Professor of Physics and Astronomy, is one of this year’s Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates. The honor is designed to recognize researchers whose body of work puts them in contention for a Nobel Prize. Kane, along with Laurens W. Molenkamp of the University of Würzburg and Shoucheng Zhang of Stanford University, are named in physics for their research on the quantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators.

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics will be announced on Tuesday, October 7.

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Penn Arts & Sciences Students Win 2024 President’s Engagement Prize

They will design and undertake post-graduation projects that make a positive, lasting difference in the world.

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2024 School of Arts & Sciences Teaching Awards

Penn Arts & Sciences recognizes nine faculty and seven graduate students for their distinguished teaching.

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Wale Adebanwi and Deborah A. Thomas Named 2024 Guggenheim Fellows

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2024 College of Arts & Sciences Graduation Speakers

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Undergraduate and Graduate Students Honored as 2024 Dean’s Scholars

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Azuma and Hart Named Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professors of American History

Eiichiro Azuma specializes in Asian American and transpacific history, while Emma Hart teaches and researches the history of early North America, the Atlantic World, and early modern Britain between 1500 and 1800.

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