Playwright and screenwriter William Mastrosimone '66 visited Pennington on April 17 to speak with students in the Drama II class and Senior Seminar in Drama.

Nine students in Dr. David Hauser's Advanced Molecular Biology class will have their work on the analysis of gene sequences published this summer in the database of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), the largest database of gene sequences in the world.

Last year's Pennington Middle School play, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, has been nominated for an Outstanding Production of a Middle School Play award.

The Pennington School recently recognized students achieving Dean’s List honors during the first semester of 2013–14. For Upper School students to earn a position on the Dean’s List, their grades must all be B-plus or higher; for Middle School students, their grades must all be B or higher. At both levels, students achieving the High Honors designation have no grade below an A-minus.

Pennington's Model UN team, led by faculty advisor Marc Epstein, participated in one of its three annual Model UN conferences, this one held in Philadelphia.

Penny Townsend, head of school, has announced an extraordinary gift of $2 million to The Pennington School from Joseph L. and Marion Wesley, the grandparents of ten Pennington alumni, through the Joseph and Marion Wesley Family Foundation.

Upper School and Middle School report cards for quarter 2 are now available on NetClassroom.

The Pennington School's 2013 literary magazine, Passages, has been awarded a Superior ranking in a competition sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

Eleven Pennington School seniors were inducted on January 15 as the first student members of the School’s chapter of the Cum Laude Society.