WHO SHE IS: Administrative Assistant, Principal Gifts and Planned Giving, Wharton External Affairs
YEARS AT PENN: About a year.
WHAT SHE DOES: Mastnjak supports the director and several major gifts officers in Wharton’s External Affairs department. She schedules meetings, makes travel arrangements, gathers information, helps plan events and also contributes to a department newsletter.
WHY PENN?: When she and her husband moved to Philadelphia, Mastnjak—who had previously worked a variety of jobs, from Banana Republic clerk to coffeehouse barista—specifically targeted jobs at Penn because of the education benefits provided. “I knew it would be a place where I could get my Master’s degree for free,” she said. “I purposely tried to get a job here.”
THE PLAN: Mastnjak has taken a couple courses, and though she hasn’t yet enrolled in a program, she does know she would like to pursue a degree in Teaching English as a Second Language. “I like getting to know people from different cultures,” she said. “I just think it’s really interesting.”
Nanoparticle blueprints reveal path to smarter medicines
New research involving Penn Engineering shows detailed variation in lipid nanoparticle size, shape, and internal structure, and finds that such factors correlate with how well they deliver therapeutic cargo to a particular destination.
A generous gift from alumni Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman brings the work of internationally acclaimed artist Jaume Plensa to the University of Pennsylvania. The latest addition to the Penn Art Collection expands Philadelphia's public art.
A massive chunk of ice, a new laser, and new information on sea-level rise
For nearly a decade, Leigh Stearns and collaborators aimed a laser scanner system at Greenland’s Helheim Glacier. Their long-running survey reveals that Helheim’s massive calving events don’t behave the way scientists once thought, reframing how ice loss contributes to sea-level rise.
