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Give to Penn’s Way through early December

The 2014 Penn’s Way campaign, the University’s workplace charitable giving initiative, officially culminates on Friday, Nov. 15. But the clock hasn’t run out yet. There’s still time to pledge to Penn’s Way and make an immediate impact on some of the region’s most vulnerable populations.

Pipeline program connects West Philly students to careers in medicine

Ashley Mason was a 10th grader at Paul Robeson High School for Human Services in West Philadelphia when a recruiter spoke to her class about a program designed to connect students to careers in medicine. Mason was intrigued, especially since the Penn Medicine High School Pipeline program was offering tutoring and mentoring alongside the internship.

Head of the class

New eats in ARCH

Acclaimed Chicago chef Rick Bayless is bringing his food and global sensibility to Penn with a Tortas Frontera restaurant location on the first floor of the newly renovated ARCH Building in the center of Penn’s campus. The café, which plans to feature quick service Mexican fare, will be the chef’s first establishment on a college campus. The café will open at the startof next semester.

Penn Produces Graphene Nanoribbons With Nanopores for Fast DNA Sequencing

The instructions for building all of the body’s proteins are contained in a person’s DNA, a string of chemicals that, if unwound and strung end to end, would form a sentence 3 billion letters long. Each person’s sentence is unique, so learning how to read gene sequences as quickly and inexpensively as possible could pave the way to countless personalized medical applications. 

Trolley Transformation

The University City District (UCD), working in conjunction with Andropogon Associates landscape architects, SEPTA, the City of Philadelphia, and a committee of neighborhood stakeholders, is working to transform the 40th Street Trolley Portal. UCD has devised a plan to turn the concrete space into a vibrant, green, pedestrian-friendly plaza with a café. The two-phase plan calls for an increase in green space on the site, which is located on 40th Street between Baltimore and Woodland avenues. UCD has committed $650,000 for the first phase of the project, which could begin this year.

Penn Dental Medicine Team Identifies Molecule Critical to Healing Wounds

Skin provides a first line of defense against viruses, bacteria and parasites that might otherwise make people ill. When an injury breaks that barrier, a systematic chain of molecular signaling launches to close the wound and re-establish the skin’s layer of protection.

Thinking beyond recycling

A new awareness campaign is highlighting the University’s efforts to reduce, reuse, and recycle, and also encouraging students, faculty, and staff to think beyond recycling.

National Dog Show names Penn Vet dog ‘Therapy Ambassador’

This weekend at the National Dog Show in Oaks, Pa., more than 2,000 specially bred canines will compete for prizes within their breed and group, and a select number will vie for the “Best in Show” trophy.

Staff Q&A with Laurie McCall

Named for its benefactors, Marc E. Platt and Julie Beren Platt, both 1979 alums, the Platt Student Performing Arts House is, as its name indicates, a home for student performing arts at Penn.