11.17
Keeping campus trees—all 6,800 of them—healthy and vibrant
Caring for the trees on Penn’s campus—an official arboretum since last year—is no small undertaking. Staff from Facilities and Real Estate Services and the Morris Arboretum lead the way in ensuring that the University’s trees remain safe, vibrant, diverse, and beautiful.
What will it take to prevent the next wildfire disaster?
Six Penn researchers receive honors from American Physical Society
Women’s basketball team sails past Saint Joseph’s
The Power of Penn in London
Social scientists trade academic silos for shared workspace
Celebrating 30 years with Stimulus Children’s Theatre
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Marching toward the market
Rui Jing Jiang and Brandon Kao, winners of the 2018 President’s Innovation Prize, are well on their way to their goal: to gain FDA approval for a device to treat glaucoma.
Q&A with Penn Law’s Stephen Burbank, the system arbitrator of the NFL
The Penn Law professor has been at the University for 43 years. He was hired as its general counsel at age 27. He has been the NFL’s system arbitrator since 2002.
Dry conditions may have helped a new type of plant gain a foothold on Earth
Plants reap energy from the sun using two photosynthesis pathways, C3 and C4. A new study led by Haoran Zhou, Erol Akçay and Brent Helliker suggests that water availability drove the expansion of C4 species, which may help to explain how different plant lineages came to be distributed on the planet today.
Monitoring heritage sites with drones and remote sensors
The Center for Architectural Conservation has been observing adobe ruins for three years as a harbinger for climate change. Any damage that the changing climate will do to exposed structures, it will do it to adobe first.
This startup wants to revolutionize the future of biofabrication
Before the fall of 2012, Orkan Telhan and Karen Hogan didn’t even know each other. Fast forward six years, and the Penn duo has created budding startup Biorealize, with not one—but two—transformative products.
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Under Innovative contract, hospital readmissions cut by more than 25 percent
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Undergrads make meaning out of memes
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SP2 alumnus receives Lifetime Achievement Award, offers advice to future change agents
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Penn engineers develop ultrathin, ultralight ‘nanocardboard’
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11.17
Nobuntu
Five-woman a capella group Nobuntu performs Afro-jazz and gospel for the first time at the Annenberg Center, accompanied by a percussion band and dance numbers.
11.20
Potted Potter
This 70-minute Harry Potter parody, by Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner, condenses all seven books into a performance with comedy, props, songs, and costumes. The performance is appropriate for ages 6 and older.
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Grapple on the Green
The Penn wrestling team headed outside to officially kick off its season with its annual “Grapple On the Green” open practice on College Green.
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