Greg Johnson | Penn Today

Greg Johnson covers Penn Athletics and Recreation, which includes sports teams, intramural sports, and the Penn Relays. He manages the annual Research at Penn publication, which highlights notable research from all 12 schools at Penn.

Articles from Greg Johnson

Battling painful side effects from breast cancer treatment

A protein on the surface of breast cancer tumors called the estrogen receptor allows the tumors to use estrogen to grow.

Lorene Cary/Q&A

Photo credit: Candace diCarlo

Creating a new culinary footprint

Photo credit: Greg Johnson

Staff Q&A/Doug Berger

Photo credit: Mark Stehle Doug Berger, executive director of the Business Services Division, is a man of

History (in pictures) of the Holy Land

In the top image, Jews carry wheat in the Emek (Jezreel Valley) of British Mandate Palestine in 1936. The bottom photo shows the 1868 restoration of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

Foreclosures take an emotional toll

Millions of Americans have lost their homes, and neighborhoods and communities have suffered since the U.S. housing bubble began to burst in 2006.

Student Spotlight: Katie Reynolds

Photo credit: Mark Stehle TRAINING CAMP: Before she even began classes at Penn, Katie Reynolds served as a manager for the football team.

Botswana-UPenn Partnership helps tackle national crisis

Botswana, in southern Africa, suffers from the second highest HIV/AIDS rate in the world, with nearly a quarter of the adult population infected.

Q&A/Arjun Yodh

Photo credit: Candace diCarlo Arjun G. Yodh, the James M. Skinner Professor of Science, wanted to be a journalist.

A vet's view of animal research

Debates about using animals in research stretch back centuries, but the modern animal rights movement was born in 1975 when philosopher Peter Singer, the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton, published his book “Animal Liberation.”