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Women’s rowing team revs up for first NCAA tourney
Members of the women's rowing team, wearing their white Penn jerseys, carry their boat into the water.

Women’s rowing team revs up for first NCAA tourney

This weekend in Sarasota, Florida, the Quakers will compete in the NCAA Division I Rowing Championship tournament for the first time as a full team.

Penn Today Staff

A one-stop shop for student-founded impact startups
From left, Sam Strickberger, Max Strickberger, Seungkwon Son, and Niko Simpkins of College Green Ventures.

A one-stop shop for student-founded impact startups

College Green Ventures, a recipient of Penn’s 2022 President’s Engagement Prize, finds and supports student-founded impact startups. The organization aims to be a national hub for social impact on college campuses.
A vigil in response to recent losses to gun violence
A crowd of people on College Green at Penn’s gun violence vigil.

A vigil in response to recent losses to gun violence

In the shadow of the LOVE sculpture, campus ministers and artists offered prayers, readings, and songs, supporting the community and imploring action in the wake of the lives lost in the mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, in Laguna Woods, California, and in Uvalde, Texas.
Dan Treglia on the caregivers lost to COVID
Young child looking out a window onto a city street.

Dan Treglia on the caregivers lost to COVID

The associate professor of practice in the School of Arts & Sciences identifies the number of children who have lost parents and caregivers to COVID-19 and how to support them.

From Omnia

Exploring racism’s health impact in a VA renal clinic
African American person at a renal clinic with a blanket on their lap and an IV in their hand.

Exploring racism’s health impact in a VA renal clinic

A new study by Penn LDI’s Kevin Jenkins provides new insights into how structural racism impacts Black patients’ lives and treatment experience for chronic kidney disease.

Hoag Levins

From Buddhist temples to Penn Libraries
Rebecca Mendelson poses outside the library in front of green bushes

Rebecca Mendelson is the new Japanese and Korean Studies Librarian. (Image: Courtesy of Brian Hogan)

From Buddhist temples to Penn Libraries

Rebecca Mendelson is wrapping up her first academic year in person in her new role managing the Libraries’ Japanese and Korean Collections.

Kristen de Groot

Streamlining the health care supply chain
William and Luka pose in front of College Hall

William Danon and Luka Yancopoulos pose in front of College Hall in April 2022. They are co-founders of Grapevine and the winners of the 2022 President’s Innovation Prize. 

Streamlining the health care supply chain

William Danon and Luka Yancopoulos, winners of the 2022 President’s Innovation Prize, will offer a software solution to make the health care supply chain more efficient.
Talking admissions with Whitney Soule
Whitney Soule.

Whitney Soule, vice provost and dean of admissions. (Image: Lisa Godfrey)

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    • Talking admissions with Whitney Soule

    As vice provost and dean of admissions, Soule is challenged daily with thinking strategically about undergraduate enrollment at Penn—from recruitment to application processes and all that goes into admitting a class, to how financial aid and retention fits into the mix.

    Lauren Hertzler

    Reimagining the corner store to promote food justice
    Eli Moraru, Charles Reeves, and Alex Imbot sit on Reeves' front porch in South Philadelphia

    Eli Moraru (left) and Alexandre Imbot (right) have been working with community activist Charles Reeves (center) for two years. Their project, The Community Grocer, hopes to make nutrition accessible for all residents of Reeves’ South Philadelphia neighborhood.

    Reimagining the corner store to promote food justice

    With a 2022 President’s Sustainability Prize, Eli Moraru and Alexandre Imbot will take raw ingredients payable with EBT and turn them into hot, heathy meals while providing nutritional education resources.

    Kristina Linnea García

    How price shocks in formative years scar consumption for life
    Car parked between pumps at a gas station in the 1970s beneath a sign reading STANDARD OIL COMPANY.

    How price shocks in formative years scar consumption for life

    Teens who experienced gas price shocks of the 1970s drive less in later years, according to experts at Wharton and the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

    From Knowledge at Wharton