4.23
125 years of Franklin Field
The historic stadium, home to the University of Pennsylvania Quakers and the Penn Relays, is celebrating its quasquicentennial. It is the oldest college stadium in the country.
First-year doctors spend almost 90 percent of their time away from patients
Brain regions linked to memory and emotion help humans navigate smell
A conversation with Leslie Laird Kruhly
Pitch perfect
App predicts risk of developing hernia following abdominal surgery
Energy Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania receives $30 million gift
Building literacy and leadership through basketball
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A first-hand look at the complexity of technology for development
Students in Guy Grossman’s Penn Global Seminar traveled to Uganda in March, an experience one student says ‘entirely changed’ her thinking about the value of smartphones and other innovations in Africa.
Sports talk with M. Grace Calhoun
The director of athletics and recreation discusses the Red & Blue’s recent sports successes, making progress toward the department’s strategic goals, the funding of college athletics, and the 125th running of the Penn Relays.
Strella Biotechnology’s biosensors minimize food waste, one apple at a time
With their 2019 President’s Innovation Prize, Katherine Sizov and Malika Shukurova are looking to disrupt the agricultural sector.
How a year in space affects the brain
Penn Medicine’s Mathias Basner discusses the NASA Twins Study, which analyzed astronaut Scott Kelly’s physical and mental health after he spent 340 days in space, and found that Kelly’s performance on a cognitive test battery dropped when he returned to Earth for six months.
By the numbers: First-ever image of black hole’s event horizon
An overview of how scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration were finally able to see the unseeable, and what it means for the future of astronomy.,
Inside Penn
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Penn Nursing Diaries: A day in the life—Nia Akins
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The Jacobson Global Venture Awards
From Lauder Institute - From Penn IUR
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NIH funds will study cancer-focused therapy on infectious diseases
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Media, Inequality, and Change Center hosts launch symposium
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4.23
Breadwinning from 1850-1940
Beth Wenger, the Moritz and Josephine Berg Professor of History, discusses American Jewish men and the anxieties of breadwinning from 1850 to 1940, aligned with her interest in American Jewish history, Holocaust memory, contemporary Jewish culture, American religious history, and gender.
4.25
Public Policy in Practice
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush joins Fels for a discussion. Bush is a non-resident Presidential Professor of Practice for the 2018-19 academic year.
Multimedia
Hands-on learning in the greenhouse
A revamped plant biodiversity lesson invites introductory biology students into the department’s greenhouse for an extensive tour and hands-on lessons with the diverse collection.
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Big Ideas
Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Black feminism 101
Author and alum Feminista Jones joined Tanji Gilliam of Africana Studies in a discussion of her new book “Reclaiming Our Space,” examining how Twitter and modern liberation movements are all borne from black women’s words, struggle, and history.
