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    Coming up clutch with Jana Dweek
    Jana Dweek holds a squash racket up against a wall with squash ball marks.

    Image: Eric Sucar

    Coming up clutch with Jana Dweek

    The fourth year on the women’s squash team discusses the Quakers’ national championship-winning season. Dweek clinched the Howe Cup for the Red & Blue by winning the decisive match in straight sets.

    3 min. read

    Hard work with Simone Sawyer
    Simone Sawyer holds a basketball on her shoulder.

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    Hard work with Simone Sawyer

    The fourth-year guard on the women’s basketball team discusses playing basketball with her best friends, the responsibilities of a team captain, her most memorable game, and supporting well-being.

    3 min. read

    Where economic modeling meets real-world legislation
    Kent Smetters and another person looking at a whiteboard

    Junghoon Lee (left), director of engineering and data at the Penn Wharton Budget Model (PWBM), and Kent Smetters (right). The PWBM is the only non-governmental group analyzing how public policy simultaneously affects the federal budget, macroeconomic growth, and human welfare.

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    Where economic modeling meets real-world legislation

    The Penn Wharton Budget Model is the only non-governmental group analyzing how public policy simultaneously affects the federal budget, macroeconomic growth, and human welfare.

    3 min. read

    Hoop dreams with Ethan Roberts
    Ethan Roberts holding a basketball at the entrance to the Palestra.

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    Hoop dreams with Ethan Roberts

    The fourth-year guard discusses how basketball is a microcosm for life, transferring to Penn, playing for Coach Fran McCaffery, and the pride he has in donning the Red & Blue.

    4 min. read

    Hurrah for the Red and the Blue
    From left, Coach Mike McLaughlin, Mataya Gayle, and President J. Larry Jameson.

    Image: Don Felice/Penn Athletics

    Hurrah for the Red and the Blue

    On Saturday at the Palestra, President J. Larry Jameson and Provost John L. Jackson, Jr. acknowledged Penn student-athletes for their remarkable achievements.

    2 min. read

    A balancing act with Carly Oniki
    Carly Oniki leans against a balance beam in the gymnastics training center.

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    A balancing act with Carly Oniki

    The fourth-year gymnast discusses the multiyear success of the gymnastics team, her love of the sport, her favorite place on campus, some off-the-mat activities, and why Penn was her dream school.

    5 min. read

    Bringing much-needed dental care to an underserved community
    Dental residents treat a patient at Penn Dental at Woods.

    Staffed by Penn Dental postgraduate dental residents, along with attending dentists, Penn Dental at Woods treats both resident in-patients and out-patients of Woods, employees, special needs students at the Woods onsite school, and people with disabilities from the community.

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    Bringing much-needed dental care to an underserved community

    People with disabilities often face barriers to dental care. A collaboration between Penn Dental Medicine and Woods Services is changing that, bringing dental care with compassion to people with disabilities, a vastly underserved population.

    2 min read

    Making math add up for seventh graders
    Cole DuHaime leans against a statue outside College Hall.

    Image: Eric Sucar

    Making math add up for seventh graders

    Third-year Cole DuHaime taught math to seventh graders over the summer in a service opportunity made possible by Generation Teach and the Ben Franklin Scholars Program.

    4 min. read

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