The University of Pennsylvania has announced its inaugural cohort of Presidential PhD Fellows.

The three-year fellowships include a twelve-month stipend, tuition, fees, insurance coverage, and research funds. For the coming academic year, each of the thirty-three fellows will receive an annual stipend of $38,000 as well as research funding of $10,000, with the funding renewable for years two and three for students in good academic standing. This year's fellows were selected from across the nine schools at Penn with PhD programs.

"Our PhD students embody our profound mission of creating new knowledge, understanding, and teaching that will shape the future," UPenn president Amy Gutmann said upon the launch of the President's Ph.D. Initiative last fall. "They make a tangible impact by tackling the world's most significant challenges and most perplexing questions. Sustaining their world-changing scholarship will be more important than ever in a post-pandemic world."

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