Educate to Empower
2024 President’s Engagement Prize winners Simran Rajpal and Gauthami Moorkanat are working to identify and dismantle barriers to breast cancer screenings in populations that may not be adequately reached by existing interventions.
President's Engagement Prizes
2024 Projects
Presby Addiction Care Program
With the President’s Engagement Prize, Anooshey Ikhlas, Brianna Aguilar, and Catherine Hood are implementing a volunteer program to address challenges encountered by individuals with substance use disorders during hospitalization.
Next year's application deadline will be announced in the fall.
Full application timeline details will be available
via the Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships.
About the Prizes
The President’s Engagement Prizes are competitively awarded annually to academically excellent and civically engaged Penn seniors to design and undertake fully-funded local, national, or global engagement projects during the first year after they graduate from Penn.
Each project winner will receive up to $100,000 in project implementation expenses, as well as $50,000 in living expenses.
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President's Prizes
Engagement is just one piece of the Penn vision.
PROJECTS FOR PROGRESS
This prize offers a broader cross section of the Penn campus a special opportunity to propose meaningful initiatives, to receive funding, and to make an immediate—and sustained—community impact.
PRESIDENT'S INNOVATION PRIZE
Unique at both Penn and across higher education, the President's Innovation Prize underscores the University’s considerable commitment to encouraging students to put their knowledge to work for the betterment of humankind.
PRESIDENT'S ENGAGEMENT PRIZES
Competitively awarded on an annual basis, the President’s Engagement Prizes empower Penn seniors to design and undertake local, national or global engagement projects during the first year after they graduate.