Awards & Recognition
The divisions, departments and staff with the Executive Vice President's portfolio are regularly recognized for their outstanding achievements with national and local awards.
Sustainability
- Stemmler Hall has been awarded LEED Gold status from the USGBC (United States Green Building Council)
- Richards Medical Labs, A&B Towers, completed in the Spring of 2019, received LEED gold status from the U.S. Green Building Council
- ArbNet Arboretum - Level I Accreditation
- EPA Green Power Challenge - 1st Place, Ivy League
- Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission - Air Quality Award
- 100 Greenest Schools by the Sierra Club
- Environmental Protection Agency's list of the nation's top 25 green-energy leaders
- Penn's Climate Action Plan was honored with the first Climate Leadership Award for Institutional Excellence by Second Nature.
- Penn Earns Tree Campus USA Designation from Arbor Day Foundation
- Office Depot/Philadelphia Area Collegiate Cooperative (PACC) Sustainability Award in February 2018
Architecture and Planning
- Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics wins a Design Excellence and Service Award from the Ontario Association of Architects in September 2020
- Stemmler Hall Recognized as Groundbreaker Award Finalist in August 2019
- AIA Philadephia Awards for Pennovation Center and Moelis Grand Reading Room
- GBCA Excellence in Craftsmanship Award & International Interior Design Association Award for Moelis Grand Reading Room
- DVGBC Groundbreaker Award, Brick in Architecture Awards, Engineering News-Record Best Project-Higher Ed for New College House
- ULI Award of Excellence, Preservation Alliance, AIA NJ Honor Built - Preservation, CREW Community Impact Award, Fast CoDesign, Wired for Pennovation Center
- National AIA Award of Merit, AIA Potomac Valley Design Award, GBCA Construction Excellence Award for Stephen A. Levin Building
- AIA New York State Design Awards, Architizer A+ Award for Perry World House
- AIA Pennsylvania's 50 Year Timeless Building Award for Richards Medical Labs
- LEED Gold for New College House, Pennovation Center, FMC Tower
Business Services
- Houston Market Wins Platinum in 2019 Loyal E. Horton Dining Award
- NACUFS Horton Dining Award for Houston Market
- May 2018 National Association of College & University Food Services (NACUFS)
- 2017 Bike-Phriendly Business Award from the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia
Public Safety
- Penn's Division of Public Safety ranked #1 for the Higher Education Market by Security 500 Magazine (for the eleventh year in a row)
- DPS received the Accreditation with Excellence Award by The Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc., (CALEA®) and has been accredited continuously since March 2001.
Workplace
- Seal of Distinction: In 2016 and 2017, Penn received the WorldatWork Seal of Distinction Award in recognition of the innovative steps we have taken to invest in our talented employees
- Healthy Work Place Award, by Philadelphia Business Journal and United Healthcare
Finance
- Best values in Higher Education by Kiplinger
Information Systems and Computing
- ISC Information Security received the 2018 CSO50 Award for its work on incident orchestration
- E&I Cooperative Services Cloud Leadership Award for effective use of cloud solutions to benefit students, teachers, administrators, and staff
- Talend Data Masters Award for use of the Talend tool to create Penn’s new Online Giving application, making premier-quality higher education available and accessible to all students regardless of financial need