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Greg Johnson
Managing Editor
Managing Editor
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.
Can Obama keep energy promises?
President-elect Barack Obama has vowed to make energy and environmental issues a priority during his presidency. Through his comprehensive New Energy for America plan, he pledges to invest in alternative and renewable energy, end America’s addiction to foreign oil, address the global climate crisis and create millions of new jobs through green initiatives.
Staff Q&A/Jeremy Brochin
Photo credit: Mark Stehle According to Reform Judaism magazine, Penn enrolls about 2,500 undergraduate Jewish students, which adds up to roughly 25 percent of the student po
Student Spotlight: Brianne Blakey
MADAM PRESIDENT: Blakey, a Doylestown native and Wharton junior, is president of the Penn chapter of Amnesty Internat
Skin color can mask rape injuries
After a group of emergency department nurses at the University of Cincinnati decided they wanted to set up a sexual assault forensic program, they asked their colleague, Marilyn S.
Seeking new menopause therapies
The menopausal transition—or “The Change”—can cause any number of uncomfortable symptoms in women.
Strange alliances along the border
In what he described as an effort to “help protect the American people,” President Bush signed the Secure Fence Act in 2006, authorizing the federal government to take a series of steps to secure the U.S./Mexican border.
Prof examines history of heroin trade
About half of all of America’s heroin users in the 20th century were concentrated in one place—New York City. And when one factored in the big cities of Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington, D.C.
New Fels director: 'This is just a perfect place for me to be.'
Photo credit: Candace diCarlo David Thornburgh, the new executive director of the Fels Institute of Government, describes himself as a huge fan of P
Examining the ACL epidemic
. Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb tore his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in week 11 of the 2006 season, missed the remaining six regular season games and the playoffs, and still wasn’t 100 percent at the start of the 2007 season,
Battling an epidemic
The obesity epidemic among American children has caused a tremendous increase in Type 2 diabetes, especially among minorities. The Penn School of Nursing and Sayre High School are working to fight this trend through an intervention program that can help prevent the onset of the disease in at-risk children.