Sade Bonilla received two grants. A $360,537 award from Arnold Ventures supports her and Columbia University Teachers College’s Veronica Minaya-Lazarte’s randomized controlled trial to evaluate a cost-of-living grant for low-income community college students. A $2,299,746 award from the Institute of Education Sciences—shared with co-PIs Nicole Edgecombe, Maria Cormier, and Catherine Finnegan from Columbia University—funds a project examining the Virginia Community College System’s central pandemic workforce recovery strategy. \ The Heising-Simons Foundation awarded Caroline Brayer Ebby and her co-PI Karina G. Diaz $399,854 for a mixed-methods study examining the efficacy of aligned formative assessment and professional learning on preK–3 teacher and student outcomes in a network of public elementary schools in Philadelphia. \ Gerald Campano, María Paula Ghiso of Columbia University Teacher’s College, and members of the Communities Advancing Research in Education (CARE) initiative were awarded the 2023 Henry T. Trueba Award for Research Leading to the Transformation of the Social Contexts of Education from the American Educational Research Association. \ María Cioè-Peña was selected for a 2023 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project “B is for Bilingual, Black, or Broken: Erasure and pathologization through school-based ethnic, linguistic, and disability classifications.” Additionally, her book, (M)othering Labeled Children: Bilingualism and Disability in the Lives of Latinx Mothers (Multilingual Matters, 2021), won the First Book Award from the American Association of Applied Linguistics. \ Amalia Daché received two grants with collaborator Juan Garibay from the University of Virginia. A $496,840 award from the Spencer Foundation will support their project “The Afterlife of Slavery on Campus: Black Student Experiences with University Histories of Slavery and their Views on Higher Education Reparations.” And $50,000 from the Russell Sage Foundation will support their project “Student Racial Justice Activism and Higher Education Reparations at Universities Founded Pre-Civil War.” \ Vivian L. Gadsden was honored with the David N. Dinkins Social Justice Award from the “I Have a Dream” Foundation.” \ Zachary Herrmann and Taylor Hausberg were awarded both a Penn Global Engagement Fund grant and a Penn Environmental Innovations Initiative Research Community grant. The former will support their work with the Project-Based Leaning for Global Climate Justice certificate program, and the latter will support them coordinating with scholars across Penn to develop programming and conduct research on this topic. Herrmann was also named a faculty fellow with the Penn Environmental Innovations Initiative and was selected for the Integrating Sustainability Across the Curriculum program, which helps Penn faculty introduce environmental sustainability into their courses. \ Nancy Hornberger received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education, recognizing her internationally known career in bilingualism and biliteracy, ethnography and language policy, and Indigenous language revitalization. \ Yumi Matsumoto received a $49,774 grant from the Spencer Foundation for her project “International Students’ Communicative Practice in US University Classrooms: Multimodal Analyses of Multilinguals’ Communicative Repertoires,” which will be funded through 2024. \ Nicole Mittenfelner Carl was awarded a $95,603 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Education as part of the Aspiring to Educate STEM-CS grant program, which aims to diversify the pipeline of STEM and computer science teachers. Her project focuses on recruiting and supporting first-generation, low-income undergraduate students into the teaching profession in partnership with the Center for Black Educator Development, the School District of Philadelphia, Penn’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships, the Responsive Math Teaching project, and undergraduate student groups. \ Jennifer Morton was recently awarded a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship. She is one of three fellows in the category of philosophy this year. Morton was also named winner of the 2023 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education for her ideas published in Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility (Princeton University Press, 2019). \ Michael Nakkula and Andy Danilchick earned a $488,201 grant to expand their Consortium for Mental Health and Optimal Development across Chester County. In collaboration with the Chester County Intermediate Unit, the consortium works to support mental health initiatives that foster optimal development for students and staff in 16 county school districts and organizations, serving over 165 participants this year. It builds off a similar consortium Nakkula and Danilchick have run at Penn since 2019 with regional school districts. \ Laura Perna received the AEFP-CUE Higher Education Award at the March meeting of the Association for Education Finance and Policy. The award celebrates scholars who are engaged in exemplary applied research in higher education and in broad dissemination of results and policy implications. \ Diane Waff was honored with the Helen O. Dickens Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women of Color at Penn. The award recognizes outstanding leadership, service, community impact, and commitment to improving the quality of life for and/or serving as a role model to women of color. \ Ericka Weathers was awarded a Russell Sage Foundation Presidential Grant for a project examining the effects of school-based policing in Pennsylvania. She was also selected as a 2022 outstanding reviewer for the journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. \ Sharon Wolf was selected for a LEAP Research Fellowship. A joint program of the Jacobs Foundation and MIT Solve, Leveraging Evidence for Action to Promote Change (LEAP) is a global initiative that brings together researchers, social entrepreneurs, and education ventures to advance evidence-based learning solutions that help children thrive. \ Jonathan Zimmerman received a $43,000 grant from the Spencer Foundation to support archival research for his book on the history of schools and universities during epidemics and pandemics.