Penn’s Division of Business Services has announced that beginning this spring, a new service called Amazon@Penn will open on campus, providing a staffed package pickup point for members of the Penn community to receive and return Amazon orders. The 3,558-square-foot space will be located in 1920 Commons, the University’s largest dining facility. In addition to mobile-enabled, self-service package pickup, it will be the first Amazon pickup location to feature communal workspaces with interactive media pods where students can connect their laptops and mobile devices to TV monitors.
When the doors open at Amazon@Penn, students, faculty, and staff can ship to the pickup location, and Amazon Student and Prime members will receive additional shipping benefits including free same-day delivery for orders placed by noon and free one-day pickup for orders placed by 10 p.m.
Novel plant-based approach to a better, cheaper GLP-1 delivery system
Research led by Penn Dental’s Henry Daniell investigates the use of a lettuce-based, plant-encapsulated delivery platform as a new oral delivery of two GLP-1 drugs previously approved by the FDA in injectable form.
No brain, no gain: Neuronal activity enhances benefits of exercise
Research led by Penn neuroscientist J. Nicholas Betley and collaborators finds that hypothalamic neurons are essential for translating physical exertion into endurance, potentially opening the door to exercise-mimicking therapies.
In honor of Valentine's Day, and as a way of fostering community in her Shakespeare in Love course, Becky Friedman took her students to the University Club for lunch one class period. They talked about the movie "Shakespeare in Love," as part of a broader conversation on how Shakespeare's works are adapted.
In Becky Friedman’s English course Shakespeare in Love, undergraduate students analyze language, genre, and adaptation in the Bard’s plays through the lens of love.
Beating the heat: Designing cooling for bodies in motion
Dorit Aviv, director of Weitzman’s Thermal Architecture Lab, studies how humans, technology, and design intersect, paving the way for the development of novel approaches to cooling people efficiently.
