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Student Achievement:

Three REES majors have been selected as the Phi Beta Kappa recipients this year: Liza Brover, Emily Despinoy, and Jan Nowak. Congratulations!
Student Achievement:

Beau Staso, a holder of the Certificate in Russian and an active member of the Penn REES student community, has received a Thouron Award to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom. The Thouron Award is a graduate exchange program between Penn and U.K.
Student Achievement:

Benjamin Kosko, a REES major, has received the prestigious 2021 Critical Language Scholarship to study Russian this summer. The CLS Program is part of a U.S. government effort to expand dramatically the number of Americans studying and mastering critical foreign languages.
Taking Stock of Shock: Social Consequences of the 1989 Revolutions

is a new book by Dr. Kristen Ghodsee and Dr. Mitchell Orenstein has been published by Oxford UNiversity Press.