Penn Alumni honored eight distinguished alumni with the Penn Alumni Award of Merit and a notable faculty member with the Faculty Award of Merit at the 2024 Alumni Award of Merit Gala on Friday, November 15.
Deepak Prabhakar, who earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the School of Engineering and Applied Science in 2011 and 2012 respectively, received the Young Alumni Award for his work rallying alumni around reunions, campaigns, and volunteer activities as the Class of 2011 president since 2016. He earned the Penn Alumni Student Award of Merit in 2011 in recognition of his involvement and leadership as an undergraduate in numerous groups, including the Penn Traditions Undergraduate Board, the Senior Class Executive Board to the Theta Tau Professional Engineering Fraternity, and the Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity.
