Mark Andrew: U.S. Junior National Team

Mark Andrew, a freshman in Penn’s School of Engineering & Applied Science and a member of the Penn men’s swimming & diving team, has been named to the U.S. Swimming Junior National Team. This team is made up of the top six swimmers in each Olympic event from the combined results of all U.S. Swimming or FINA-sanctioned meets from January 1 to August 30, 2015. National Junior Team members must be age 18 or under on September 1, 2015.

Mr. Andrew has the fifth-best time in the 200 and 400 individual medleys. At the Speedo Junior Nationals in San Antonio, Texas in August, he touched the wall at 2:02.60 in the 200 and 4:22.10 in the 400.

Penn: Tree Campus USA

The University of Pennsylvania earned Tree Campus USA designation for 2014, awarded by the Arbor Day Foundation. This is the sixth year that Penn has been recognized. Created in 2008, Tree Campus USA is a national program sponsored in partnership with Toyota that honors colleges and universities for effective campus forest management and for engaging staff and students in conservation goals. Penn achieved the designation by having an active Tree Advisory Committee, a Campus Tree Care Plan, financial and personnel resources allocated for the Tree Care Plan, an Arbor Day observance and tree-related service learning projects.

David Hollenberg: 2015 Wyck-Strickland Award

David Hollenberg, University architect at Penn, will receive the 2015 Wyck-Strickland Award at a reception on October 15 at the Wyck, a historic house, garden and farm in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. Mr. Hollenberg oversees the design and preservation of Penn’s campus. Since 2006, he has led an array of projects that deftly reconcile the desire for architectural preservation and the drive for progressive design, ensuring that the campus continues to be distinctively “Penn.”

For the past 27 years, Mr. Hollenberg has taught in Penn’s graduate program in historic preservation in the School of Design. Previously, he was a lead voice in planning $320 million in design and construction to transform Independence Mall. With John Milner Associates, 1975-2002, he directed design for the reuse of iconic landmarks, including the Fairmount Water Works and the Reading Terminal Headhouse.

The Wyck-Strickland Award honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the cultural life of Philadelphia through work that reflects a drive for progress and modernity and a sensitivity to the past.

Daniel Hopkins: Two APSA Awards

Daniel J. Hopkins, who joined Penn Arts & Sciences this fall as an associate professor of political science, received two awards during the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), held September 3-6 in San Francisco, California. Dr. Hopkins was honored with the Clarence Stone Award, given by the Urban Politics Section of the APSA to a scholar who is “making a significant impact on the field of urban politics.” He also received the 2015 Warren Miller Prize for best article published in the journal Political Analysis, for “Casual Interference in Conjoint Analysis: Understanding Multi-Dimensional Choices via Stated Preference Experiments” with coauthors Jens Hainmueller and Teppei Yamamoto.

Dr. Hopkins’ research centers on American politics, with a special emphasis on racial and ethnic politics, local politics, political behavior and research methods. He is the author of nearly 30 papers and has a secondary appointment at Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication. He received his doctorate in government from Harvard University and before coming to Penn was an associate professor at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.