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Denise Henhoeffer

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    A year in photos and videos

    A year in photos and videos

    Penn Today’s visual review of the 2024-25 academic year highlights the innovation, community outreach, individual milestones, and collective celebration.

    Penn Today Staff

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    Designing cleaner, greener concrete that absorbs carbon dioxide
    Masoud Akbarzadeh holding up one of the fabricated materials.

    The Polyhedral Structures Laboratory is housed at the Pennovation Center and brings together designers, engineers, and computer scientists to reimagine the built world. Using graphic statics, a method where forces are mapped as lines, they design forms that balance compression and tension. These result in structures that use far fewer materials while remaining strong and efficient.

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    Designing cleaner, greener concrete that absorbs carbon dioxide

    Penn engineers, materials scientists, and designers have developed a 3D-printed concrete solution based on diatomaceous earth that has enhanced carbon capture, is stronger, and uses fewer materials like cement.

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    Keeping food safe and animals healthy
    A lab technician injecting small eggs with a substance via syringe.

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    Keeping food safe and animals healthy

    As part of the Pennsylvania Animal Diagnostic Laboratory System (PADLS), Penn Vet’s New Bolton Center helps to protect animals and humans from health threats and minimize agricultural economic loss.

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    Measles: An explainer
     Judy O’Donnell.

    Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine

    Measles: An explainer

    Judy O’Donnell, the associate chief medical officer for Healthcare Epidemiology for the University of Pennsylvania Health System, and the chief of Infectious Diseases at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, explains what people need to know about measles.

    A window into East Asian history: Conserving Buddhist murals
    museum worker restoring buddhist mural

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    A window into East Asian history: Conserving Buddhist murals

    Penn Museum staff are restoring Buddhist murals that were crafted in a style prevalent between the 13th and 14th centuries, bringing renewed vibrancy to art from a distinct era of East Asian religious history.

    The practice of art collection as a collaboration
    People looking at the After Modernism exhibit at the Arthur Ross Gallery.

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    The practice of art collection as a collaboration

    As part of an undergraduate course, Penn faculty and students curated an Arthur Ross Gallery exhibition of works from the Neumann family’s extensive collection of modern and contemporary art.
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